list - UKSG

A&I
AA
AA
AAI
AAAS
AACR
AACR2
AAM
AAP
AARL
AAU
AAUP
ABA
ABC
ABC
ABES
ABI
ABI/INFORM
ABOR
ABTOE
ACAP
ACH
ACKU
ACP
ACPJC
ACQUIS
ACRL
ACROBAT
ACS
ACS/POD
ACTS
ACU
abstract and indexes (or abstracting and indexing services)
(i) Architectural Association (UK)
(ii) accepted manuscript
authentication and authorization infrastructure
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules 2nd ed.
author accepted manuscript
American Association of Publishers
Australian Academic and Research Libraries
Association of American Universities
American Association of University Presses
American Booksellers Association
(i) African Books Collective
(ii) Audit Bureau of Circulation
Agence Bibliographique de l'Enseignement Supérieur (France)
application binary interface
Abstracted Business Information - abstracting and indexing database of business and
management journals
Arizona Board of Regents
Association of Bookseller and Publisher Training Organizations
automated content access protocol
Automatic Clearing House
Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University
American College of Physicians
ACP Journal Club
acquisitions usb-system of MINISIS
Association of College and Research Libraries
Adobe software for sending formatted documents between people using word processing or
DTP
American Chemical Society
American Chemical Society/Page-image on Optical Disk Project at UCL
Advanced Communications Technologies and Services - EC DGX111 programme
Association of Commonwealth Universities
ADAM
ADAT
ADBS
ADLSN
ADONIS
ADS
ADT
AEI
AFBI
AFP
AG
AGI
AGI
AGM
AGORA
AGRENET
AGRIS
AHILA
AHRB
AHRC
AHSP
AHSS
AHUA
AHUG
AHVLA
AIE
AIMSS
AIP
AIP UniPHY
AIT
AJOL
AL [/LSC]
Information gateway to art, design architecture and media information available over the
Internet - project run by a consortium headed by Surrey Institute of Art and Design, funded
through Electronic Libraries Project
Academic Database Assessment Tool (developed by JISC)
Association des Documentalistes et Bibliothecaires Specialises (France)
African Digital Libraries Support Network
article delivery over network information systems
Archaeology Data Service (University of York, UK)
Australasian Digital Theses Programme
Associated Electrical Industries
Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute (Belfast, Ireland)
Agence France Presse
Aktien Gesellschaft
(i) Acquisitions Group of Ireland
(ii) Association for Geographic Information ((UK)
annual general meeting
Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture (UN FAO)
network allowing access to catalogues of research institutes of BBSRC
International information system for the agricultural sciences and technology
Association of Health Information and Libraries in Africa
Arts & Humanities Research Board (UK)
Arts & Humanities Research Council (UK)
American Society of Hospital Pharmacists
arts, humanities and social sciences
Association of Heads of University Administrators
Arts and Humanities User Group
Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency
Italian Publishers Association (Associazione Italiana Editori)
Automating Ingest of Metadata on Serials Subscriptions (EDINA and Serials Solutions
collaborative project)
American Institute of Physics
social networking service from AIP in collaboration with Collexis Holdings,Inc
Asian Institute of Technology
African Journals Online (managed in S Africa)
Academic Libraries [branch of LSC]
ALA
ALCS
ALCTS
ALERT
ALF
ALLIN
ALO
ALP
ALPSP
ALS
ALT
AM
AMA
AMOSSHE
AMS
ANABAD
American Library Association
Author's Licensing and Collecting Society
Association for Library Collections and Technical Services
EBSCO current awareness service linked to document delivery service EBSCOdoc
Auxilliary Library Facility
Access to Libraries for learning in Northamptonshire
Alumni Library Online (Cranfield University)
Advancement of Librarianship in the Third World - IFLA Core programme
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
Academic Library Services
Association for Learning Technology (based in Oxford)
Adam Matthew (digital publisher)
American Medical Association
Now known as: The Student Services Organization
American Meteorological Society
Asociacion Espanola de Archiveros, Bibliotecarios, Museologosy Documentalistas (Spain)
ANDS
ANKOS
ANR
ANSI
ANU
AOARI
AoC
AOL
APARSEN
APC
APEL
API
AP & C
APPLAUSE
APS
APUC
AR
Archie
Australian National Data Service
Anatolian University Library Consortium (Turkey)
French National Agency of/for Research
American National Standards Institute
Australia National University
African Open Access Repository Initiative
Association of Colleges
America Online - Internet service provider
Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe Network
article processing charge [NB: also has other meanings so check for context!]
accreditation of prior experiential learning
application programming interface
Acquisitions Processing and Cataloguing - British Library Boston Spa
ESPRIT project
American Physical Society
Advanced Procurement for Universities and Colleges (Scotland)
augmented reality
distributed information system based on client server architecture
ARDI
ARIADNA
ARIEL
ARL
ARLAC
ARMA
ARROW
ARP
ARTel
ASA
ASCII
ASHER
ASIS
Aslib
ASME
ASP
ASP
ASSAf
AT
ASTM
ASU
ATA
AT&T
ATHENS
ATM
AUAF
AUC
AUDI
AULC
AUP
AUT
AVLIN
BanglaJOL
BASELINE
Access to Research for Development and Innovation (includes technology)
automated library system used by the Spanish National Library
RLG fulltext delivery service of documents using Group 4 FAX over Internet
Association of Research Libraries
Australian Research Libraries Acquisition Consortium
Association for Research Managers and Administrators
Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works
Automated Request Processing - British Library
Automated Request Transmission by Telephone
Association of Subscription Agents [latterly, '& Intermediaries'] (UK)
American standard code for information interchange
Australian Scheme for Higher Education Repositories
American Society for Information Science
Association of Information Management(UK)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(i) active server pages
(ii) application service provider
Academcy of Science of South Africa
assistive technologies
Association of Scientific Technical and Medical Publishers
Arizona State University (USA)
Alliance for Taxpayer Access (USA) - coalition leading the charge to ensure US federallyfunded research is made OA)
Atlantic Telephone & Telegraphy
A system for authenticated access to electronic databases and documents
asynchronous transfer mode
American University of Afghanistan Foundation
Air Transport User Committee
an unmoderated list server for Irish Dynix Library System users
Arizona Universities Library Consortium (USA)
Amsterdam University Press
Association of University Teachers (UK)
African Virtual Library Network
Bangladeshi Journals Online
EU DGXIII Info 2000 Project on guidelines for system developers
BAV
BBIM
BBSRC
BCR
BD
Becta
BEIC
BERR
BES
BHS
BHTC
BIBLID
BIBSAM
BIC
BICI
BIDS
BISG
BIMA
BIOSIS
BIREME
BIS
BISAC
BIU
BL
BLAISE
BLCMP
BLDS
BLDSC
BLEND
BLLD
BLNL
BLPES
BLRD
BLRIC
best available version
Bachelor of Business and Information Management (such as at that offered at University of
Auckland, NZ)
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (UK)
benefit-cost ratio
borrow direct
British Education Communication and Technology Agency
Electronic Library of Scientific Information [trans.] - Chile
Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (UK)
British Endocrine Societies
British Humanities Index
Book House Training Centre
bibliographic identification of contributions in serials and books - ISO 9115
The Royal Library's Department for National Co-ordination and Development (Sweden)
Book Industry Communication
Book item and contribution identifier
Bath Information and Data Services
Book Industry Study Group (USA)
British Interactive Multimedia Association
Biosciences information service of Biological Abstracts
Latin American & Caribbean Center on Health Science Information
Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (UK)
Book Industry Systems Advisory Committee
Biomedical Information Unit (ICRF)
British Library
British Library Automated Information Service
Birmingham Libraries Co-operative Mechanisation Project Project ( now Talis)
British Library for Development Studies, University of Sussex
British Library Document Supply Centre
Birmingham Loughborough Electronic Network Development
British Library Lending Division along with NLLST pre-cursor of BLDSC(UK)
British Library Newspaper Library
British Library of Political and Economic Science
British Library Research and Development Department
British Library Research and Innovation Centre
Ele
BLS
BMA
BMC
BMJ
BNA
BNB
BNCF
BNF
BNF
BN-OPALE
BOAI
BOBCATSSS
BODOS
BQFP
bps
BPS
BRAQUE
BRIL
BRISC
BSD(i)
BSD(ii)
BSF
BSF
BSMS
BUBL
BUFDG
BUG
BYU
CABI
CABS
CADIG
CADIST
BLCMP Library Services
British Medical Association
BioMed Central
British Medical Journal
Blackwell North America
British National Bibliography
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze (National Central Library of Florence), Italy
(i) Bibliographie Nationale Francaise
(ii) Bibliothèque Nationale de France
BNF database for serials
Budapest Open Access Initiative
A co-operative of European institutes and universities in the field of Library and Information
Science, involving institutions in Budapest, Oslo, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Amsterdam,
Tampere, Sheffield, Stuttgart and Szombathely
financial management system developed by BIDS
Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
bits per second
British Psychological Society
Browse And Query - software to advise on how to make online database searches in most
efficient way on ESA-IRS
BBSRC Research Institute Libraries
BBSRC Research Institute Serials Consortium
Bibliographic Services Division (of British Library)
Berkeley Software Distribution
Biosciences Federation (UK)
book storage facility (e.g. for the Bodleian Library, in Swindon, UK)
Brighton and Sussex Medical School (UK)
Bulletin Board for libraries
British Universities Finance Directors Group
BLCMP user group
Brigham Young University (USA)
Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau International Library Services
Current Abstracts in Biological Sciences
Coventry and District Liaison Group
Centre d'acquisition et de diffusion de l'information scientifique et technique
CADL
CAIRNS
CAIRS
CAIS
CAJUN
CALIS
CANDLE
CAP
CAPCAS
CAPP
CARET
CARL
CARLIGH
CARPET
CAS
CAS
CAS/IAS
CASIAS
CASLIN
CASPAR
CASPUR
CAST
CATRIONA
CATS
CAUL
CBE
CBT
CBUC
CC
CC BY
CC BY-SA
CC BY-NC
CC BY-ND
China Academic Digital Library
Co-operative Academic Information Retrieval Network for Scotland
Computer Assisted Retrieval System - library systems software developed by Food
Research Association, Leatherhead, U.K.
Central Abstracting and Information Services (American Petroleum Institute)
CD-ROM ACROBAT journals using networks
China Academic Library and Information System
Controlled access to network digital libraries in Europe (EU Project)
Community Advisory and Planning group
Computer Aided Production Current Alerting Services - Elsevier ETOC experiment
Council of Academic and Professional Publishers
Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies (at Cambridge University)
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Ghana
Community for Academic Reviewing, Publishing and Editorial Technology
(i) Chinese Academy of Sciences
(ii) current alerting services
current alerting service/individual article supply
EBSCO's document delivery service(Current Alerting Service/Individual Article Supply)
Czech and Slovak Library and Information Network
Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval
Consorzio Interuniversitario Applicazioni di Super Calcola Universita e Recerca
China Association for Science and Technology
Cataloguing and Retrieval of Information Networks Applications Project at University of
Strathclyde
central article tracking system (as used at Taylor & Francis)
Council of Australian University Librarians (also includes CSIRO)
Companion of the British Empire
campus-based teaching
Consortium of University Libraries of Catalonia
Creative Commons
Creative Commons Attribution [BY does not seem to be an abbreviaton or acronym!]
Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike
Creative Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial
Creative Commons Attribution - Non-Derivative
CCC
CCIP
CCIS
CCITT
CCLA
CCM
CCN
CCT
CCTA
CCU
CCUC
CD
CD-I
CDLR
CDLR
CD-NET
CDPA
CD PROMPT
CD-ROM
CDRS
CDS
CDS-ISIS
CEC
CEDARS
CEE
CEGB
CEI
CEIRC
CENL
CEO
CEPA
CEPIEC
CERIF
CERFACS
Copyright Clearance Center (USA)
Chamber of Commerce and Industry Paris
Centre for Communication & Information Studies
Comite Consultif International Telegraphique et Telephonique
College Center for Library Automation (US)
Copac Collections Management project
Catalogue Collectif National des Publications en Serie
compulsory competitive tendering
Central Computing and Telecommunications Agency(UK)
Central Computing Unit(ICRF)
Union Catalogue of the Universities of Catalonia
compact disc
Compact disc-interactive
California Digital Library (USA)
The Centre for Digital Library Research (University of Strathclyde)
software for networking CD-ROMs supplied by Meridian Data
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (UK - 1988)
CD ROM product news service from Swets
Compact disk - read only memory
Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (at Columbia University, USA)
CERN Document Server
software developed by Unesco for serials management on microcomputers
Commission of the European Communities
CURL exemplars for digital archives
Central and Eastern Europe
Central Electricity Generating Board (UK)
Committee for Electronic Information (HEFCE)
CAUL Electronic Information Resources Committee
Conference of European National Librarians
Chief Executive Officer
Cambrdige Economic Policy Associates
China Educational Publications Import and Export Corporation
Common European Research Information Format
Centre Europeen de Recherche et Formation Avancee en Calcul Scientifique
CERL
CERLIM
CERNET
CESNET
CEST
CGE
CGI
CHECKIN
CHEMS
CHEST
CHIU
CHORUS
CIBER
CIBER
CIC
CHILL
CIG
CILEA
CILIP
CILIPS
CINCEL
CINDOC
CIP
CIP
CIPE
CIPS
CIQM
CIRIG
CIS(i)
CIS(ii)
Consortium of European Research Libraries - 24 libraries incl. BL, NLS, BNF, Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek
Centre for research in Library and Information Management, University of Central
Lancashire
China Education and Research Network (an arm of CALIS)
Czech Technical University and Czech Educational and Scientific Network
Centre for the Exploitation of Science and Technology
Compagnie Generale D'Electricite
common gateway interface
Serials module used by the Joint World Bank and International Monetary Fund Library
Commonwealth Higher Education Management Service
Combined Higher Education Software Team
Committee of Irish Heads of Universities
Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States
(i) Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (at UCL)
(ii) Coordinamento Interuniversitario Basi Dati & Editoria in Rete
Committee on Institutional Cooperation (13 major research libraries in the USA)
Consortium of Independent Health Information Libraries in London
City Information Group
Lombardic Interuniversitario Consortium for the Automatic Elaboration
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland
Consorcio para el Acceso a la Informacíon Cientifíca Electronica [Corporation/Consortium for
the Access to Electronic Scientific Information] - Chile
Centro de Informacion y Documentacion Cientificia - organization with CSIC acting as a
national centre for scientific document supply in Spain
(i) cataloguing in publication
(ii) Computer- Investitionsprogramm(Germany)
Coordinamento Italiano Periodici Elettronici
Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply
Centre for Information Quality Management set up by LA/UKOLUG
China Institutional Repository Implementation Group
campus information service
Commonwealth of Independent States
CISAC
CISTI
Citadel
CJO
CLA
CLA
CLARCS
CLCO
CLI
CLIC
CLIK
CLIR
CLOCKKS
CLR
CLS
CLSI
CML
CMOE
CMOE
CMS
CMU
CNEAI
CNI
CNIDR
CNKI
CNN-PS
CNPID
CNRI
CNRS
CODATA
CODEN
CODI
Cog
COLD
COLICO
International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers
Canadian Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
RLG service providing online access to range of commercial and academic databases
Chemical Journals Online
(i) Canadian Library Association
(ii) Copyright Licensing Agency (UK)
Copyright Licensing Agency Rapid Clearance Service
Copyright Licensing Co-ordination Office
Center for Library Initiatives (USA)
Corporate Library Information Centre (Canada)
Centre of Learning and Knowledge
Council on Library and Information Resources
Controlled LOCKKS
Council on Library Resources (USA)
Computing and Library Services (for example, at University of Huddersfield)
Computer Library Services International Ltd - library systems supplier
Chemistry markup language
China's Ministry of Education
Centre for Science and Technology Development (China)
content management system
Carnegie Mellon University
National Commission for the Evaluation of Research (Spain)
Coalition of Networked Information
Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval
Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure
French national catalogue for serials
Chinese Newspaper and Periodical Index Database
Corporation for National Research Initiatives (France)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Committee for Data on Science and Technology (International Council for Science)
unique and unambiguous permanent identifier for a specific serial title
Committee On Development Information (UN Economic Commission for Africa)
U.K. Government's E-mail discussion group on libraries and networked information
computer output to laser disc
Committee on Library Co-operation in Ireland
COM
COMMANDS
CONICYT
CONSER
CONSER
CONTU
COO
COP
COPAC
COPE
COPICAT
catalogue on microfiche; also Zeitschiftendatenbank(Germany)
ICL contents management and document server system handling multimedia
National Commission of Scientific and Technological Research [trans.] - Chile
(i) Co-operative online serials (database)
(ii) Conversion of Serials project - Library of Congress Council of Library Resources
National Commission of New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Work (USA)
chief operating officer
Code of Practice (eg. For COUNTER)
CURL OPAC
Committee on Publishing Ethics
CEC ESPRIT funded project on copyright protection for electronically published material
COPINET
COPOL
Copywatch
CORC
CORDIS
CEC ESPRIT funded project on charging and billing systems for document delivery
Council of Polytechnic Librarians
CLA campaign stopping illegal copying targeted at business
Co-operative Online Resource Catalog (OCLC's metadata initiative)
Community Online Research and Development Information Service (CEC DGXIII database)
CORE
COSEELIS
Couperin
COUNTER
CPA
CPAN
CPD
CPD
CPD
CREES
CREPUQ
CRI
CRIS
CRKN
CRM
CrossRef
CSA
Chemistry Online retrieval Experiment
Council of Slavonic and Eastern European Libraries and Information Services
French consortium: COnsortium Universitaire de PERIodiques Numériques
Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources
Commission on Preservation and Access (USA)
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
(i) continuing professional development
(ii) cost per download
(iii) code of professional conduct
Centre for Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Birmingham
Conférence des Recteurs et des Principaux des Universités de Québec (consortium)
Conference of University Rectors in Ireland
Current Research Information System (The 'C' also used for Cranfield's RIS)
Canadian Research Knowledge Network
Customer relationship management
The official DOI registration agency
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
CSBi
CSDGM
CSIC
CSV
CUL
CUP
CURL
CVCP
CWIS
CWTS
DACS
DAD
DAF
DAG
DAISY
DALI
DAM
DAMS
DanBib
DARE
DBI
DBI-FIRST
DBI-OSI II
DBMS
DCC
DCMS
DCU
DDA
DDEP
DPOD
DeCAff
Computational and Systems Biology Initiative
Content standard for digital graphical metadata authored by FGDC
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas - national centre for research in Spain
comma separated values (text format)
Cornell University Library
Cambridge University Press
Consortium of University Research Libraries
Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals
campus wide information service
Centre for Science and Technology Studies (Leiden, Netherlands)
Design and Artistis Copyright Society
digital asset distribution
data audit framework (e.g. as used by DCC)
Digitization Advisory Group (at JISC)
Digital Accessible Information System
EU DG XIII library project on the electronic publishing and delivery of multimedia scientific
reports in oceanography
digital asset management
digitial asset management system
Danish (national) library catalogue
Digital Academic REpositories Project (Netherlands)
Deutsche Bibliotheksinstitut
DBI document copying and delivery service using ten German and two foreign libraries as its
sources
German federal government and DF project to facilitate searches in the German regional
electronic union catalogues, the Zeitschriftendatenbank, PICA and other major databases
database management system
Digital Curation Centre (http://www.dcc.ac.uk/)
Data capture management system
Dublin City University
demand-driven acquisition
Dutch Depository of Electronic Publications
distributed print on demand (which began as a Taylor & Francis initiative)
Department for Constitutional Affairs
DECIMAL
DECOMATE
DEFF
DEFNet
DELPHES
DELTA
DENI
DERA
DF
DF-Revy
Dfee
DfES
DFG
DFID
DGXIII
DH
DIAD
DIAL
DIALOG
DIAS
DIDL
DIEPER
DIMDI
DIP
DISLU
DIUS
DiVLE
DLF
DLF ERMI
DMCA
library decision support module developed by a European consortium co-ordinated by
Department of Library and Information Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University
Delivery of COpyright MATerial to End-users - a digital library project to provide end users
with access to copyright materials in electronic form run by a consortium of Tiliburg
University, LSE and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Dansmark Elektroniske Forskningbibliothek - Danish electronic research library
Gateway for consortia-purchased resources in Denmark (originally negotiated with TDNet)
European Business information on CD-ROM produced by CCIP
Telematic network and services applied to flexible distance learning
Department of Education, Northern Ireland,
Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (UK)
Dansmark Forskningbibliothekforening (Denmark)
Danish Research Libraries Review
Department of Further Education and Employment
Department for Education and Skills
Deutsche Forshungsgemeinschaft - German Research Council/Foundation
Department for International Development (UK)
Directorate General of the Commission of European Studies responsible for
telecommunications, information industries and innovation
Department of Health
Digitization in art and design - an eLib project
Digital Identifiers for Institutions and Libraries (NISO Working Group)
on-line database host
Digital Information and Archiving System
Digital Item Declaration Language
The Digitized European Periodicals project (EU funded)
Deutsches Institut fur Medizinnische Dokumentation und Information
dual in-line package
Department of Information Science at Loughborough University
Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (UK)
Linking Digital Libaries with VLEs Programme
Digital Library Federation
Digital Library Federation's Electronic Resource Management Initiative
Digital Millennium Copyright Act
DMLS
DMP
DNER
DNH
DOAB
DOAJ
DOCDEL
DOD
DOE
DOI
DOI
DON
DORA
DOS
DOS-PC
DOT
DPA
DPC
DPDU
DPE
dpi
DPLA
DRDP
DRM
DRM
DRS
DSC
DSCOLS
DSIR
DTD
DTI
DTP
DTV
DVI
EA
Defence Medical Library Service (UK)
data management plan
Distributed National Electronic Resource
Departement of National Heritage
Directory of Open Access Books
Directory of Open Access Journals
document delivery(service)
digitization on demand
Department of Energy (US publisher)
(i) digital object identifier
(ii) Document Delivery and Electronic Publishing Initiative(of CEC)
(numerical or digital optical disk double drive)
Declaration of Research Assessment (San Francisco)
database operating system
disk operating system for personal computer
Directory of Transcription Services - Share the Vision project(UK)
Digital Performance Archive
Digital Preservation Coalition
Direction de la Programmation et du Developpement Universitaire
DigitalPreservationEurope
dots per inch
Digital Public Library of America
Doctoral Research Development Programme
(i) digital rights management
(ii) Defence Research Agency(UK)
destination recognises source
(British Library) Document Supply Centre
Diplomatic Service Commercial Officers Library Service(UK)
Department of Scientific Industrial Research (former UK government department)
document type definition
Department of Trade and Industry (UK)
desk top publishing
Danish Technical Knowledge Centre and Library
direct voice input
enterprise architecture
EAD
EAHIL
EAJUS
EAN
EARL
EARN
E-BioSci
EBL
EBLIDA
EBM
EBM
EBS
EBSCO
EC
eCAM
ECAS
ECCO
ECE
ECHO
ECHO
ECIL
ECLIPS
ECPA
ECU
ECU
ECUP
ed.
EDD
EDI
EDIFACT
EDIL
EDINA
EDIteur
EDP
EDS
Encoded archival description
European Association of Health and Information Libraries
Electronic article and journal usage statistics project from IOPP
European Article Number
Electronic Access to Resources in Libraries project
European Academic and Research Network
EMBO e-publishing initiative
EBook Library Corporation
European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations
(i) Espresso Book Machine
(ii) evidence-based medicine
evidence-based selection
serials subscription agent based in the U.S. - founded by Elton Bryson Stephens
European Community
Complementary & Alternative Medicine online (OUP)
electronic current awareness service
Eighteenth Century Content Online (from JISC Collections)
Eastern and Central Europe
(i) EC Host organization
(ii) Exploring Cultural Heritage Online (North Carolina, US, project)
European Conference on Information Literacy
European Convention of Library and Information Products and Services
European Commission on Preservation and Access
(i)European Currency Unit
(ii)Edith Cowan University (Australia)
European Copyright User Platform
edited(or)
electronic document delivery
Electronic data interchange
electronic data interchange for administration, commerce and transport
Electronic document interchange between Libraries
Edinburgh Data and Information Access
Pan-European Book Sector EDI group
electronic data processing
EBSCO discovery system
EEBO
EES
EESE
EEVL
EFQM
EFSG
EFTA
e-GMF
EI
EI
EIES
EIFL
EIO
EIPM
EIPS
EJAC
eKAT
ELAG
eLib
E-LIB
ELIN
ELINOR
ELISA
ELISE
ELITE
ELS
ELSA
ELVIRA
ELVYN
e-mail/email
Early English Books Online
Elsevier electronic subscriptions
The Engineering E-journal Search Engine
Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
European Foundation of Quality Management
European Federation of Serials Groups
European Free Trade Association
eGovernment Metadata Framework
(i) Engineering Information
(i) Engineering Index
electronic information exchange system
Electronic Information for Libraries (from the OSI)
electronic information object
Evidence Informed Policy Making
Electronic information products and services
E-journal Archives of Chongqing, China
Electronic Knowledge Access Team (in NHS)
European Library Automation Group
electronic libraries programme of JISC
Electronic library at State and University Library Bremen (Germany)
Electronic Library Information Navigator, University of Lund
The Electronic Library Project at De Montfort University, Milton Keynes
East of England Library and Information Services Development Agency
Electronic Library Image Server for Europe project
EU DG XIII library project combining technologies for electronic document management,
access and delivery using WWW services in the STM area
electronic library system
EU DG XIII library project designed to extend TULIP experiment by remote delivery of full
text from publisher to user in SGML format
Electronic Library and Visual Information Research project
Electronic Version Why Not? electronic journal project run through partnership of IOPP,
Loughborough, Oxford, Manchester, Exeter, UCL, Hertfordshire universities and Harwell
electronic mail
EMANI
Electronic Mathematics Archive Network Initiative - project including four publishers and
Cornell University, the State and University Library Goettingen and Tsinghua University,
Beijing
EMBASE
Excerpta Medica database published by Elsevier Science
EMBO
European Molecular Biology organization
EMERALD
the Electronic Management Research Library Database
EMIC
Export Market Intelligence Centre
ENIVIDUCATION
Multimedia GIS for elementary environmental education
ENTER
Dawson on-line acquisitions tool
EOL
Economics Online (a proposed central portal from NEEO)
EOL
Encyclopaedia of Life (wiki-style encyclopaedia)
EP
European Parliament
EPEF
Evalutation des Périodiques Electroniques dans le Réseau Universitaire Française (Project
to evaluate use of e-journals in French universities)
EPIC
(i) a command interface online reference information system from OCLC
EPIC
(ii) Electronic purchasing in collaboration (NZ)
EPIC
(iii) Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (University)
EPICS
EDItEUR Product Information Communication Standards
EPIN
Electronic Public Information Network
EPS
Electronic Publishing Services
EPSRC
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
EQLIPSE
Evaluation and quality in library performance : system for Europe - 10 member, European
consortium led by CERLIM
EQUATOR
Enhancing the QUAlity and Transparency Of health Research
ERA
Educational Recording Agency
ERA
Excellence in Research for Australia
ERGIS
European Seabed Resource Geographical Information Service - IMPACT project
ERIH
European Reference Index for the Humanities
ERL
Electronic Reference Library
ER&L
Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference (USA)
ERM
Electronic resource management
ERMI
Electronic Resource Mangement Initiative
ERS
Electronic Reading Systems, company supplying thereof
Erwerb-L
Erwerbungensfragen in Bibliotheken - mailing list on all acquisitions and collection
development matters
ESA
ESC
ESDS
ESL
ESPACE
ESPL
ESPRIT
ESRC
ESSN
ESW
ETD
EThOS
ETHOS
European space Agency - in its role as a database host
European Serials Conference
Economic and Social Data Services
Elsevier Science Ltd.
EPO bibliographic information on European/PCT patent applications since 1978
Electronic Serials in Public Libraries project
European Strategic Research Programme in Information Technology
Economic and Social Research Council
electronic ISSN
Education and Social Work (usually 'School of …')
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Electronic Theses Online Service
European Telematics Horizontal Observatory Service Project - market and technology
awareness service for EC's Telematics Application Programme
ETOC
Electronic Table of Contents Service(British Library)
ETSI
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
EU
European Union
EUnet
European Unix Network(Usenet)
EUR-OP
EC official publications office
EURILA
EU DG XIII library project on the electronic publishing and delivery of technical documents in
aerospace
EURIPIDES
European Information Project involving Demographic and Economic Statistics - IMPACT
project
EUROGI
European Umbrella organization for Geographical Information
EUROLOG
European On-line User's Group
EUROPAGATEA SR/Z39.50 European gateway
Europeana
Pan European digital library
EUROPANET European academic network - using X.25 and TCP/IP
EUSIDIC
European Association of Information Services
EV
Emerofica Virtuale - e-journals platform used by CIBER
EWS
European Workshop on SGML
EXPLORER
The Space Explorer - IMPACT project
FAIR
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources
FAME
Financial Analysis Made Easy - CD-ROM company information product
FAPESP
Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo
FAQ
FASTDOC
Fax
FBOI
FCO
FGDC
FIDDO
FIGARO
FIGIT
FIL
FinElib
FIZ
FMDF
FOBID
FOI
FOUDRE
FRANCIS
FRAD
FRBR
FSMB
FSU
FSU
FT
FTAM
FTC
ftp
FUNET
FWF
G7
GALILEO
Gabriel
GAPP
GARE
Frequently asked questions
EU DG XIII library project on document ordering and delivery
facsimile transmission
First Bank of Internet
Foreign and Commonwealth Office(UK)
Federal Geographic Data Committee, US Geological Survey - see CSDGM
Focused Investigation of DocDel Options
Federated Initiative of GAP and Roquade (representing Dutch and German universities)
Follett Implementation Group for Information Technology (UK)
Forum for Interlending(UK)
Finnish national electronic library programme
Fachinformationscentrum
Association of Staff Members of Danish Research Libraries
Federation of Library, Documentation and Information organizations
Freedom of Information [Act]
Fourniture de Document sur Reseau Electronique
INIST multidisciplinary bibliographic database covering core of world literature in humanities,
social sciences and economics
Functional Requirements for Authority Data
Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
Federation of State Medical Boards (USA)
(i) former Soviet Union
(ii) Florida State University
Financial Times
file transfer access and management
Federal Trade Commission (USA)
file transfer protocol
Finnish University and Research Network
Austrian Science Fund (Der Wissenschaftsfonds)
Group of 7 Industrial Nations - Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden and the
United States
Consortium (interconnected libraries)
WWW service to members of Conference of European National Libraries
General Administration of Press and Publication (China)
guidelines for authority and reference entries(Unesco)
GATES
GB
G&B
GBV
Generic access to electronic services
gigabyte
Gordon and Breach Publishing Group
Gemainsamer Bibliotheksverbund ('Common Library Network: 200 academic and five public
libraries in North Germany linked to PICA
GDR
(former) German Democratic Republic
GEC
General Electric Company
GEDI
Group on Electronic Document Interchange
Geo
Gene Expression Omnibus
GeSIG
German-speaking serials interest group
GFII
Groupement Francais de l'Industrie de l'Information (French Information Industry
Association)
GGC
Dutch central cataloguing system
GIF
graphical interchange format
GIS
geographical information systems
GL*SSARY
GreyNet project in order to build resources in grey literature
GLC
Greater London Council
GLIG
Government Libraries and Information Group
GLIMPSE
Global implicit search -search software for EESE
GLN
Global Location Number
GMID
Global Markets Information Database
GMT
Greenwich mean time
GNN
global network navigator
GOKb
Global Open Knowledgebase
Gopher
distributed information system based on client server architecture
GP
General Practitioner - medical doctor
GPL
General Public Licence
GPS
global positioning satellite
GSTPGs
Global studies taught postgraduates
GUI
graphical user interface
GUIDON
graphical user interface developed by OCLC
GWLA
Great Western Library Alliance (USA)
HAERVI projectHigher Education Access to E-Resources in Visited Institutions
HALO
Holdings, Accounts and Lines of Ownership - Jordan & Sons Ltd database
HATII
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (University of Glasgow)
HDTV
HE
HEFC
HEFCE
HEFCW
HEI
HEIF
HELIG
HENSA
HEP
HEPI
HEPnet
HERON
HESA
HINARI
HLF
HLN
HMS
HMSO
HND
HOAP
HPCN
HQ
HRI
HSE
HSS
HTML
HUSAT
HyperBIT
IAA
IAD
IAR
IAS
IBC
IBERMARC
high density television
higher education
Higher Education Funding Council(UK)
Higher Education Funding Council for England
Higher Education Funding Council for Wales
higher education institutions
Higher Education Innovation Funding
Higher Education Library Interest Group (South Africa)
Higher Education National Software Archive(UK)
high energy physics
Higher Education Policy Institute
High Energy Physics Network
Higher Education Resources ON-demand (JISC/eLib project)
Higher Education Statistics Agency
Health Internetwork Access for Research Literature (UN WHO)
Heritage Lottery Fund
Health Libraries Network (UK)
Her Majesty's Ship
Her Majesty's Stationery Office
Higher National Diploma(UK)
Huddersfield [University] Open Access Publishing
high performance computing and networking
headquarters
Horticultural Research Institute (UK)
Health and Safety Executive (UK)
humanities and social sciences
Hypertext markup language
Human Sciences and Advanced Technology - research institute at LUT
hypertext electronic version of the journal "Behaviour and
Identification, authentication and authorization
Institute for Academic Development
The Information Asset Register (UK)
individual article supply
integrated (trans-European) broadband communications
Spanish MARC
IBIS
IBL
IBM
IBRD
IBSS
ICADLA
ICBL
ICC
International Book Information Service
automated Dutch union catalogue for periodicals
International Business Machines
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development(World Bank)
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
International Conference of African Digital Libraries
International Campus Book Link
International Computaprint Corporation - division of Reed technology & Information Services
ICCC
ICEDIS
ICI
ICMJE
ICNET
ICO
ICOLC
ICP
ICRF
ICSU
ICT
I&DeA
IDEA
IDEA
IDEAL
International Conference on Computer Communication
International Committee for EDI in Serials
Imperial Chemical Industries Plc
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
Imperial Cancer Network
Information Commissioner's Office
International Coalition of Library Consortia
International Cataloguing Principles (created by IFLA)
Imperial Cancer Research Fund
International Council for Scientific Unions
Information and Communications Technology
Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government
Esprit Project
Inter- Institutional Directory of European Administrations
International Digital Electronic Access Library: database of Academic Press journals table of
contents
Identity Provider
International Digital Publishing Forum
International Development Research Centre(Canada)
information environment
International Exchange of Duplicate Medical Literature
Institute of Electrical Engineers
Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
IEEE learning object metadata standard
The Information Environment Service Registry
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
IdP
IDPF
IDRC
IE
IEDML
IEE
IEEE
IEEE/LOM
IESR
IET
IF
IFIP
IFLA
IFLANET
IFRRO
IGER
IGI
IHR
IHR
IIMP
IIS
ILANET
ILDS
ILEJ
ILL
ILRT
ILS
IME(Ltd)
IMF
IMISCOE
IMPACT
impact factors
International Federation of Information Processing
International Federation of Library Associations (and Institutions)
computer network of IFLA
International Federation of Reproduction Rights organizations
Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research
Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research
(i) Institute of Historical Research (UK)
(ii) Institute of Humanities Research
International Index to Music
Institute of Information Scientists
Information and Libraries Access Network ( Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific)
Inter-lending and Document Service
The Internet Library of Early Journals
Inter-library loans
Institute for Learning and Research Technology
integrated library system
Information Made Easy Ltd - library software and system supplier
International Monetary Fund
[research network on] International migration, integration and social cohesion
Information Market Policy Actions programme - co-ordinated by DGXIII-E ; primary EC
agency for developing EC information
IMPACT2
second phase of IMPACT programme - raise awareness of existing information standards;
stimulate growth of information systems
IMPRIMATUR Intellectual Multimedia Property Rights Model and Terminology for Universal Reference
Project - EC ESPRIT programme project
IMS
IMS Global Learning Consortium - metadata standard
IN SITE
current awareness service additions to the Internet
INASP
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications
INFER
Italian National Forum on Electronic Resources
INFLIBNET
Information and Library Network Centre (India)
INIST
Institute National pour l'Information Scientifique et Technique (France)
INPI
Institut National de la Propriete Industrielle (Patent Office, France)
INRA
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique [Agricultural] (France)
INRIA
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (France)
INSERM
INSPEC
Internet
ION
IOP
IOPP
IP
IP
IPA
IPGM
IPL
IPO
IPPI
IPR
IPTC
IRD
IReL
IRIS
IRISZ
IRMAP
IRUS
IRUS-UK
IS
ISA
ISAN
ISBD
ISBD(ER)
ISBN
ISC
ISDI
ISDN
Institut National de la Santé [Health] et de la Recherche Medicale (France)
Information services for physics, electronics and computers provided by IEE
collection of networks that share the same namespace and use TCP/IP protocols(US)
Interlending OSI Network project
Institute of Physics
Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.
(i) Internet Protocol
(ii) intellectual property
International Publishers Association
Institute of Post Graduate Medicine
Information Power Ltd
Intellectual Property Office
Institute of Information Transmission Problems of Russian Academy of Sciences
intellectual property rights
International Press Telecommunications Council - their taxonomy is a widely used coding
system for news and media content
Institut de recherche pour le développement (France)
Irish Research eLibrary
database searching/document ordering service for libraries and business users in Ireland
Programme at the University of Budapest Central Library and Information Centre to establish
a database for foreign periodicals and provide an electronic delivery service
Information Resources Management and Access (collection development policy at Imperial
College London Library)
institutional repository usage statistics [now also including subject repositories]
UK aggregation service (see IRUS above)
Information Services
Investigation-Study-Assay (tool)
International Standard Audiovisual Number - ISO 15706
International Standard Book Description
International Standard Book Description for electronic resources
International standard book number
Industrial Science Centre ( Lisburn, NI)
International standard document identifier
integrated services digital network
ISDS
ISI
ISIC
ISIL
ISIS
ISN
ISO
ISO4
ISOC
ISODE
ISP
ISPI
ISPO
ISSC
ISSN
ISSN-L
ISTC
ISTIC
ISTP
ISWC
IT
ITE
ITPS
ITT
IUG
IVRLA
IXI
IYTE
Jake
JANET
JASON
JCIIE
JCR
JHIP
International Serials Data System
Institute of Scientific Information
Information Specialist in Context (as used by Medical Library Association)
International Standard Identifier for Libraries and Related Organizations
serials management package marketed by B.H.Blackwell Ltd.
internal sequence number - record control number used on MINISIS
International Standards Organization
ISO Standard 4 - equivalent to BS 4148 specification for abbreviations of title
Internet Society
ISO Development Environment - allows OSI services to use a TCP based network
Internet service provider
International standard party identifier
Information Society Project Office
Information Services Subcommittee of JISC
International Standard Serial Number
Linking ISSN
International Science and Technology Center
Institute of Science and Technology Information of China
Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings
International standard work code
information technology
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
International Thomson Publishing Services
invitation to tender ( to supply)
Innovative Users Group (USA)
Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (University College Dublin)
International X.25 Infrastructure
Izmir High Institute of Technology (Turkey)
Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment
Joint Academic Network
Document copying and delivery service based on periodical holdings in North Rhine
Westphalia
JISC Committee for Integrated Information Environment
Journal Citation Reports (Thomson Reuters)
Journal of High Energy Physics
JIBS
JMLS
JUF
JUGL
JULIA
JISC Assisted Bibliographic Dataservices - user group end-users of the UK's networked
resources
journal impact factor
Journal of Interactive Media in education - an e-journal (UK)
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Russia)
Joint Internet Protocol Service
Joint Information Systems Committee (of HEFC's) [Now written: 'Jisc' and not expanded]
Journals OnLine platform (developed by PKP)
John Rylands University Library, Manchester
Journal Supply Chain Efficiency Improvement Pilot
The Mellon Foundation Journal Storage project of American economics and history (now
encompassing Ithaka)
John Menzies Library Services Ltd. - library supplier
journal usage factor
JANET User Group for Libraries
(human resource development in the transition towards the hybrid library project (Denmark)
JUPITER
JUR
JUSP
JVP
JWG
KB
KB+
KBART
KESLI
KI
KIB
KISTI
KLIS
KLISC
KNUST
KPI
KTP
KU
JUGL Project for Information Transfer, Education and Research
Journal Use Reports™ (Thomson Scientific product)
Journal Usage Statistics Portal (UK)
Janet-Viscount-Public libraries project
Journals Working Group of JISC
National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek)
Knowledge Base+ (shared academic knowledge base)
Knowledge Bases and Related Tools (Joint UKSG-NISO Working Group)
Korea Electronic Site License Initiative
Karolinska Institutet
Karolinska Institutet (University) Library
Korea Institute of Science and Technology (South Korea)
Knowledge, Library and Information Services
Kenyan Library and Information Consortium
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (Ghana, Africa)
key performance indicator
knowledge transfer partnership
Knowldege Unlatched
JIF
JIME
JINR
JIPS
JISC
JOL
JRUL
JSCEIP
JSTOR
LA
LAI
LAIG
LAM
LAMDA
LAMJOL
LAMP
LAN
LANL
LANtastic
LAPT
LASSIE
LC
LCCN
LCPDT
LDAP
LDL
LEAP
LIA
LIASA
LIBACT
LIBER
LIBERATION
LIBERTAS
LIC
LIDP
LIEM
LIFE
LILAC
LINC
LIP
LIRN
LIS
LIS
Library Association
Library Association of Ireland
Library Association Industrial Group(UK)
Library Archive and Museum
London and Manchester Document Access - electronic document delivery service
Latin American Journals Online
Library Analytics and Metrics Project
local area network
Los Alamos National Laboratory (later to become: arXIV.org - archive service)
network operating system from Artisoft
Library Acquisitions theory and practice - periodical
London's Libraries and Social Software in Education
Library of Congress
Library of Congress Control Number
London College of Printing and Distributive Trades
lightweight directory access protocol
Librarians' Digital Library (repository based in India)
Library Executive Advisor Programme (of LYRASIS, USA)
Licensed Internet Associates programme (at TNA)
Library and Information Association of South Africa
program sponsored by the European Communities
Ligue des Bibliothèques Européenes de Recherche
EU DG XIII project where STM publishers will prepare a range of multimedia materials for
libraries both on CD-ROM and for local area network or Internet use
automated library system marketed by SLS Ltd.
Library and Information Commission
Library Impact Data Project
Library and Information East Midlands (UK)
Life-Cycle Information For E-literature
Librarians' Information Literacy Annual Conference
Library and Information Co-operation Council (UK)
library and information plan or local information plan
(Project) Library and Information Referral Network
Library and Information Services (ICRF)
library and information science studies
Lis-Link
LISA
LISTSERV
LJMU
LKDN
LMI
LMS
LOC
LOCKSS
LPC
LPS
LSC
LSE
LTE
LTSS
LUG
LUT
LYRASIS
MA
MAB
MAC
MAFF
MAGiC
MAGIS
MagNet
MA/HEM
MAID
MAIS
MAN
MAP
MARC
Mb per mn
library and information science mailing list for news and discussion funded by JISC
Library and Information Science Abstracts
abbreviation of list server - software allowing list of subscribers to be
Liverpool John Moores University (UK)
Library & Knowledge Development Network (NHS, UK)
Leeds Medical Information - former OIS based at Leeds University
learning management system
Library of Congress
Lots of copies keep stuff safe' - project managed by Stanford University to establish good
practice in digital preservation of e-journals
Library Publishing Coalition
Library Partnership Subsidy
Library Society of China
London School of Economics
long term evolution (example: 4G services)
LOCKSS Technical Support Service
library user group
Loughborough University of Technology
Merger of SOLINET and PALINET, joined by NELINET = membership organization serving
libraries and information professionals (USA)
Master of Arts
Maschinelles Austauschformat fur Bibliotheken - exchange format for
Macintosh computer
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food(UK)
Managing access to grey literature collections - project managed by Cranfield University with
BLDSC, DERA/DRIC, SIRSI Ltd. and Loughborough University
Map supported Area information service based on GIS - IMPACT project
Serials network of EARL
Methodology for Access/Holdings Economic Modeling
Market Analysis and Information Database
MA [Masters Degree] in Information Studies
Metropolitan area network
Malaria Atlas Project
machine readable cataloguing
megabytes per minute
MCB
MDC
MDIS
MDUI
MEDLARS
MEDLINE
MEDten
MEED
MESUR
METS
MHRA
MHS
MIDAS
MIMAS
MINISIS
MINSTREL
MIRA
MIS
MIT
MK
MLA
MLA
MLE
MMC
mn
MOD
MOOC
mOPAC
MoST
MOTIS
MCB University Press - book and serials publisher(UK)
Mead Data Central- online database host- largest in North America
McDonnell Information Systems Group
Metadata extensions for log-in and Discovery User Interface
Medical literature analysis and retrieval service
online or CD-ROM database equivalent of Index Medicus
CD-Plus product making available current ten years of MEDLINE on eight discs with monthly
updates
Middle East Economic Digest
MEtrics from Scholarly Usage of Resources
Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
message handling system - LAN based e-mail system
Manchester Information Datasets and Associated Services based at University of
Manchester
Manchester Information and Associated Services
Periodicals management automated computer system
EU funded project to develop software for accessing relevant and reliable management
information from automated and non-automated data sources. Partners in the project are
BLCMP, PICA, University College Dublin, De Montfort University Library and TUT
Motor Industry Research Association
management information systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga - distributor for foreign subscribers in the USSR
Museums Libraries and Archives Council
Modern Languages Association
managed learning environment
Monopolies & Mergers Commission(UK)
minute
Ministry of Defence(UK)
massive open online course
mobile OPAC
Minister of Science and Techology (China)
Message Oriented Text Interchange System - formal name of 1988 CCITT x.400 standard
MoW
MP
MPP
MPS
MS
MSMSE
MUD
MUMLIB
MUSE
MYRIADE
NACSIS
NAG
NAL
NAP
NAP
NAR
NASA
NASIG
NASIGNET
NAU
NBA
NBN
NCA
NCAS
NCBI
NCC
NCL
NCL
NCP
NCSE
NCSU
Memory of the World Programme (UNESCO)
Member of Parliament (UK)
massively parallel computing
Multiple protocol server
Microsoft
Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering - journal in electronic and
printed formats
multi-user dialogue/domain/dungeon (Internet)
Multimedia in Libraries - EU funded project to set up database of text, picture, sound and
video materials of number of authors in original language and English ( Denmark, Ireland
and Portugal)
full text online service for John Hopkins University Press journals
CCN on CD-ROM
National Center for Science Information Systems
National Acquisitions Group(UK)
National Agricultural Library (USA)
National Awareness Partners - provide local support to libraries, educational institutions on
information provision
National Academies Press
Nucleic Acids Research (OUP)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)
North American Serials Interest Group
NASIG network
Northern Arizona University (USA)
Net book agreement
National Bibliographic Number
National Council on Archives
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (USA)
National Center for Biotechnology Information (USA)
Dutch national computer catalogue/Dutch union catalogue
(i) non-conventional literature
(ii) National Central Library (former division of British Library)
National Contact Points (e.g. in SCOAP programme)
Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition project (Birkbeck College)
North Carolina State University
NDL
NDL
NDLR
NDLTD
NDP
NEAR
NEEO
NEH
NEHL
NEJM
NELH
NELINET
NELLCO
NepJOL
NERL
NeSC
NESLI
NESSTAR
NEWSPLAN
NEYAL
NFAIS
NFC
NHMRC
NICE
NIFU
NGfl
NIH
NISC
NISO
NISP
NISS
NIU
NJP
(i) National Digital Library - e.g. as in Library of Congress (USA) and Finland
(ii) National Diet Library (Japan)
National Digital Learning Repository (Ireland)
National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (UK)
Normative Data Project for Libraries (USA)
National Electronic Archive ( of materials produced by academics) - initiative proposed by
the University of Kansas
Network of European Economists Online
National Endowment for the Humanities (USA)
Norwegian Electronic Health Library
New England Journal of Medicine
National Electronic Library for Health
New England Library Network
New England Law Library Consortium (USA)
Nepalese Journals Online
North East Research Libraries Consortium (USA)
The National e-Science Centre
National Electronic Site Licence Initiative
EU DG XIII project involving statistical archive access and visualisation
project to establish co-operative preservation of serials publications initiated by SWERLS
aided by BLNL
North East and Yorkshire Academic Libraries Consortium
National Federation of Advanced Information Services (USA)
near field communication
National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia)
National Institute for Clinical Excellence
Norwegian Institute for Studies in Research and Higher Education
National Grid for Learning
National Institutes of Health (USA)
National Inquiry Services Centre (S Africa)
National Information Standards Organization (USA)
Networked Information Service Project
National Information Software and Services
National University of Ireland (Galway)
New Journal of Physics
NL
NLF
NLL
NLL
NLLST
NLM
NLP
NLS
NMS
NODA
NOKC
NOOC
NORAD
NOSP
NOSPI
NOTIS
NoWAL
NPG
NPLSaT
NPO
NREN
NRN
NSCF
NSCS
NSDP
NSF
NSFC
NSL
NSS
NSTL
NTIS
NTNU
NTK
NTU
The Netherlands
National Library Finland
National Lending Library (UK)
non-linear lending (such as the model offered by EBL)
National Lending Library for Science and Technology along with BLLD pre-cursor of
BLDSC(UK)
National Library of Medicine
natural language processing
National Library of Scotland
National Museums of Scotland
National Office of Digital Archiving
Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services
National MOOC
Norwegian Development Agency for Co-operation
Scandinavian serials union catalogue
Newsletter on Serials Pricing
Northwestern online totally integrated system (USA)
North West Academic Libraries
Nature Publishing Group
Russian National Public Library for Science and Technology
National Preservation Office
National Research and Education Network (USA)
National Research Network (Ireland)
National Scholarly Communication Forum (Australia)
First Nordic Conference on Scholarly Communication in Lund/Copenhagen
National Serials Data Program (USA)
National Science Foundation (USA)
Natural Science Foundation of China
National Science Libarary (China)
National Student (Satisfaction) Survey (UK)
National Science and Technology Library (China)
National Technical Information Service(US Department of Trade and Commerce)
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
National Technical Library, Prague (Czech Republic)
Nottingham Trent University (UK)
NUC
NUCAF
NUMERIS
NVB-SG
NVBF
NVQ
NWLIP
N WO
NWUPC
OA
OAI
OAI-PMH
OAIS
OAPEN
OAPEN-UK
OARE
OASIS
OASPA
OATA
OATS
OATS
OBN
OBN
OCC
OCLC
OCR
OCS
ODA
ODE
ODIF
ODU
OEB
OECD
OER
OFEC
National Union Catalogue
National Union Catalogue of Alternative Formats
French ISDN network
Dutch Serials Group
Nordic Federation of Research Libraries
national vocational qualification
North West Libraries Interlending Partnership (UK)
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
North Western Universities Purchasing Consortium
open access
Open Archives Initiative
Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
Open Archival Information System
Open Access Publishing in European Networks
Open Access Publishing in European Networks - United Kingdom (a project)
Online Access to Research in the Environment
organization for Article Standards in Science
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
Open Access Toolset Alliance
open source assistive technology software
(Current Contents) Online and the Genuine Article
Open Biology
Open Library Network(The Netherlands)
Office for Copyright Compliance (USA)
Online Computer Library Center
optical character recognition
Open Conference Systems
open document architecture
Opportunities for Data Exchange project (STM project with EU funding)
open document interchange format
Old Dominion University
Open E-Book standard
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
open educational resource
Organization for Electronic Commerce
OFL-21
Oftel
OGC
OIS
OJ
OJCCT
OJS
OLE
OLH
OMEGA
OMNI
ONIX-PL
ONS
OPAC
OpenAIRE
OpenDOAR
OPI
OPPN
ORACLE
ORCID
ORPAN
OSAP
OSI
OSI
OSIRIS
OSS
OST
OSTI
OSTP
OU
OULS
OUP
OVID
PA
Optical Fibre Loop for the Twenty-First Century (Japan)
Office of Telecommunications(UK)
Office for Government Commerce
Oncology Information Service based at Leeds University - succeeded by LMI
Official Journal of the European Community
Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials
Open Journal Systems
Open Library Environment project (which became Kuali OLE 17)
Open Library of Humanities
Object Metadata for European Geographic Analysis - IMPACT project
organizing Medical Networked Information - eLib project
ONIX Publications Licence
Office for National Statistics
online public access catalogue
Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe
Directory of Open Access Repositories
Open Information Interchange - IMPACT initiative to develop guidelines for use of
information standards
one page project manager tool [free download: oppmi.com]
library management system
Open Researcher & Contributor ID
Distribution Centre for Scientific Literature (Poland)
Office of Scientific and Academic Publications (of ARL)
(i) Open Society Institute
(ii) open systems interconnection
Online Serials Information Registration and Inquiry System(IFLA)
open source software
Office of Science and Technology
Office of Scientific and Technological Information
Office for Science and Technology Policy (USA)
The Open University
Oxford University Library Services (later to become 'The Bodleian Libraries')
Oxford University Press
database interface produced by CA Plus Technologies Ltd.
Publishers Association
PAC
public access catalogue
PAC
Preservation and Conservation - IFLA Core Programme
PACS
Physics & Astronomy Classification Scheme
PACS-L
Public Access Computers in Libraries - Listserv - directory available on Internet
PALINET
Philadelphia Area Library Network (USA)
PALM Africa Publishing and Alternative Licensing Model of Africa
PALS
Publisher and Library/Learning Solutions group
PAMS
Publication access management services
PANCATALOGUE
French University union catalogue of books
PANGPAC
packet switched network for Papua New Guinea
PASCAL
INIST multidisciplinary bibliographic database covering world literature in science,
technology and medicine
PATRON
Performing Arts Teaching Resources ONline -eLib project in electronic reserve or short loan
category
PAYG
pay as you go
PC
personal computer
PC
personal computer
PCG
Publishers Communication Group
PCI
(i) Primo Central Index
PCI
(ii) Patent Citation Index
PCMCIA
Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
PDA
(i) patron-driven acquistion
PDA
(ii) personal digital assistant; personal data assistant
PDB
Protein Data Bank
PDF
portable document format
PDR
Pharma Documentation Ring
PEAK
Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge -research project at the University of Michigan in
collaboration with Elsevier
PEB
Pret Etre Bibliotheques - computerised messaging system
PEER
Publishing and the Ecology of European Research
PELICAN
Pricing experiment library information co-operative network - JISC funded project
PEPRS
Pilot for an e-journals preservation registry service
PERI
Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information (launched by INASP)
PfD
Publishers for Development (an ACU and INASP initiative)
PHI
Partnerships in Health Information
PhilJOL
PICA
PIE-J
PII
PILIN
PIM
PIN
PIPEX
PIRUS
PKP
PKSB
PLANETS
PLER
PLNASG
PLoS
PLS
PLUS
PMC
PNAS
POD
POP
PORTRAIT
PPA
PPT
PPV
pr
PRC
PREP
Pro-Cite
PROM
PSLI
PSTN
PSU
Philippines Journals Online
Project geIntegreerde Catalogus Automatiserung (The Netherlands)
Presentation and Identification of E-Journals
Publisher item identifier
persistent identifier linking infrastructure project (Australia)
Platform of Information Management (international organization)
personal identification number
Public IP Exchange Ltd. - leading Internet provider in Europe
Publisher and Institutional Repository Usage Statistics
Public Knowledge Project
Professional Knowledge and Skills Base
Permanent Long-term Access through NETworked Services (European project)
Principles for Licensing Electronic Resources - American Library Association
Public Library Network Awareness Steering Group
Public Library of Science
Publishers Licensing Society
scheme whereby Elsevier Science Ltd journals may award credits to libraries of their choice credits to be used for purchase of any Elsevier Science journal
PubMed Central
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
print on demand
point of presence
online database service for marketing information based on postcodes produced by Infolink
Decision Services
Periodical Publishers Association
Parallel Publishing for Transactions - eLib project
pay per view
public relations
Publishing Research Consortium
Psychology Preprint Bulletin Board
database application software for managing and formatting bibliographic references
Programmable read only memory
Pilot Site Licence Initiative
Public Switched Telephone Network
Penn State University
PTT
QUB
QUT
R&D
RA
RACE
RAE
RAIS
RAM
RAPDOC
Post, Telegraph and Telephone Administration - a government provider of communications
functions in most European countries
complete database marketing and subscription fulfillment software system marketed by
Newsco Software Ltd of Peterborough
permanent universal resource locator
Pro-Vice Chancellor
quality assurance
Quest Economics Database- primary macro-economic research, country reports, risk
analysis
Qatar National Research Fund
quick response code
project - extension of BLEND examining further the potentials of electronic publishing,
networking, CD-ROMS and optical digital disks
Queen's University, Belfast
Queensland University of Technology
research and development
research administrator
Research and Development in Advanced Telecommunications Technologies for Europe
research assessment exercise
successor to VAAP in Russia- author's agency
Recent advances in manufacturing; random access memory
Rapid Document Delivery Project involving 19 major libraries and PICA in the Netherlands
RBB
RBGE
RCPO
RCUK
RCSI
RDA
RDF
RDM
RDN
ReDI
Red Sage
REF
Reuter Business Briefing
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Research Councils Procurement Organization
Research Councils UK
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
resource description and access
resource description framework
research data management
Resource Discovery Network
Regional Database Information Services (Germany)
collaborative project of UCSF, Springer-Verlag and AT&T to provide electronic library
Research Excellence Framework
PUB5
PURL
PVC
QA
QED
QNRF
QR code
QUARTET
REP
RePEc
RESCOLINC
Resource
RFC
RFID
RICA
RIDDLE
RIN
RIP
RLG
RLN
RLUK
RMA
ROAR
ROARMAP
ROI
ROW
ROMEO
ROS
RPI
RPSC
RQF
RRO
RRP
RSC
RSLG
RSLIS
RSLP
RTF
RUGIT
RWA
SaaS
SABER
Robots Exclusion Protocol
Research Papers in Economics
Consortium of research council funded libraries
The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries
request for connection
radio frequency identification
Regole Italiane di Catalogazione per Autori
Rapid Information and Display in a Library Environment - CEC funded project
Research Information Network (UK)
Raw Impact per Paper
Research Libraries Group (USA)
Research Libraries Network
Research Libraries UK
research managers and administrators
Registry of Open Access Repositories
Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies
return on investment
(European) Registry of Orphan Works (due to be finished by 2011)
Rights Metadata for Open Archiving - JISC funded Project
research outcomes system (RCUK)
retail price index
Research Planning and Strategy Committee
Research Quality Framework (subsequently became ERA)
Reproduction Rights organization
Reed Reference Publishing
Royal Society of Chemistry
Research Support Libraries Group
Royal School of Library and Information Science (Denmark)
Research Support Libraries Programme - national initiative funded by four UK h e funding
bodies (1999-2002)
rich text format
Russell Group IT Directors (UK)
Research Works Act
Software as a Service
semiautomatic business environment research
SAFARI
SALSER
SAML
SAN
SAN
SAPIENS
SBL
SCCTP
SCHARR
SCI
SCIELO
SCiPer
SCOAP
SCONUL
SCORM
SCORPIO
SCP
SCSI
SCUJNS
SCURL
SDF
SDI
SDL
SDLC
SED
SELL
SEO
SEPSU
SETI
SFC
SFEP
SFX
SGML
project involving the retrieval of trademarks by shape, feature etc., at University of
Northumbria
Scottish Academic Libraries' Serials network
Security attribute mark-up language/Security Assertion Markup Language
standard address number
Systeme d'archivage numerique
Scottish Academic Periodicals Implementing an Effective Networked Service
Serials in the British Library
Serials Cataloguing Cooperative Training Program (USA)
Sheffield Centre for Health and Related Research, Sheffield University
Serials Citation Index (Third World)
Scientific Electronic Library Online (Brazil) project managed by FAPESP and BIREME
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical project (University of Leeds)
Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (now SCOAP 3)
Society of College, National and University Libraries
Shareable Content Object Reference Model Initiative
Serials Co-ordination Project in Oxford (launched August 2004)
Standing Conference of Principals
small computer systems interface
Society of China University Journals in Natural Sciences
Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries
Association of Danish Research Libraries
selective dissemination of information
Search Digital Libraries (searches LIS IRs in India)
Scottish Digital Library Consortium
secure electronic delivery
Southern European Libraries Link
search engine optimization
Science Engineering Policy Studies Unit (UK)
(Office of) Science, Education and Technical Information
Scottish Funding Council
Society of Freelance Editors and Proofreaders
Context sensitive linking service from Ex Libris
standard general markup language
SHA
SHALL
SHARE
SHEDL
SHEFC
SHERPA
SHL
SI
SIA
SICI
Sida
SIDLP
SISAC
SJR
SK
SL [/LSC]
SLA
SLA
SLJOL
SLS
SMDS
SME
SMS
SNA
SNI
SNIPE
SNIPES
SNS
SOAP
SOCRS
SOCKER
Strategic Health Authority
Strategic Health Authority Library Leeds
Shared Access Research Ecosystem
Scottish Higher Education Digital Library
Scottish Higher Education Funding Council
Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access - JISC project
Senate House Libraries (made up of 9 libraries including those of Institutes of School of
Advanced Study) (London, UK)
Society of Indexers (UK)
senior information assistant
serials item and contribution identifier
Swedish International Development Co-operation Agency
Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project
Serials Industry Systems Advisory Committee
SCImago Journal Rank
Scottish Knowledge - Scottish Universities venture to promote distance learning abroad
Special Libraries [branch of the LSC]
Special Libraries Association
service level agreement
Sri Lankan Journals Online
SWALCAP Library Services Ltd.
switched multimegabit data services
small and medium sized enterprises
short messaging service
systems network architecture
SIEMENS/NIXDORF library system(Germany)
Source Normalised Impact per Paper
Scotland and Northern Ireland PEriodicalS purchasing consortium
social networking site
Simple Object Access Protocol
Serials and Other Continuing Resources Standing Committee (IFLA)
SR Origin Communication Kernel - project funded by EC's Telematique Programme aiming
to design z39.50 interface to allow connection between any library workstation and any
online catalogue irrespective of system supplier or database host
SOH
SOIF
SOPODA
SPARC
SPICe
SPIRS
SPL
SPS
SR
SRD
SRIS
SRN
SRU
SSAH
SSISWG
SSL
SSO
SSP
SSRC
SSRN
STAMP
STAR
STARGATE
STAS
STeamLine
STEM
STI
STI
STL
STM
STM
STN
Serials Online Holdings (ONIX for Serials)
Summary object interchange format
Social Planning/Policy and Development Abstracts
Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
Scottish Parliament Information Centre
SuperJANET Project on Information Resources
Scientific Periodicals Library, University of Cambridge
Serials Products and Subscriptions
Search and Retrieve
source recognises destination
(British Library) Science Reference and Information Service
Serials Release Notification
search/retrieve via URL
Social Science, Arts and Humanities
Scottish Science Information Strategy Working Group
Secure socket layer
single sign-on
Society for Scholarly Publishing
Social Sciences Research Council (UK)
Social Science Research Network
Software tools to integrate Information Access - an ESPRIT project
Special Telecommunication Action Regional Development (EC)
Static repository gateway and toolkit (PALS 2 project)
Scientific and Technical Attribute Set-CAS developed this to provide a standard way to refer
to a large of searchable/retrievable fields using z39.50 protocol
an electronic publishing system supporting electronic financial transactions through
subscriptions, accounts and purchases payable by credit or debit card
science, technology, engineering and medicine
science, technology and innovation
Scientific and technical information (France mostly)
short-term loan
Scientific, Technical and Medical (publications/publishers)
International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers
Scientific and Technical Network
SUBITO
SUNCAT
SUNIST
SUPC
SuperJANET
SURF
An initiative of the German federal government and federal states to combine searching,
ordering and delivery of documents via the Internet to the researcher's desk top PC
Serials Union Catalogue for the UK
Serveur Universitaire National de l'Information Scientifique et Technique (France)
Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium (UK)
Super Joint Academic Network - an advanced high speed optical fibre network
Dutch Higher Education and research partnership organization for network services, IT and
communications technology
SURFnet
Dutch academic and research network
SUSHI
Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative
SWALCAP
South West Academic Libraries Co-operative Automated Project
SWAP
Scholarly Works Application Profile
SWERLS
South West Regional Library System (UK)
SWORD
Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit
SWOT
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats analysis
SYN
synopsis - as in publication code for EC documents
TALIS
BLS Ltd client -server library management system
TA
toll access
TAPoR
Text Analysis Portal for Research (Canadian initiative)
TCD
Trinity College Dublin
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TCR
The Combined Regions (UK)
TDM
text and data mining
TECHLIB
application of the BASIS Text Information Management System - includes cataloguing,
circulation, acquisitions and ILL
TED
Tenders Electronic Daily (a European database)
TEEAL
The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library
TEL
The European Library
TEI
Text encoding initiative
TELEFIRM
French company information
TELETHESES French theses since 1972 on CD-ROM
TFPL
Task Force Pro-Libra
THES
Times Higher Education Supplement
TIB Hanover Universitatbibliothek Hannover und Technische Informationsbibliothek
TIBQUICK 2000Project funded by the German federal government to enhance the capability of the Central
Library of Technology, Hanover to access and store electronic documents
TIFF
tagged image file format - graphic file format developed by Aldus and Microsoft
TIME
Test bed for Interoperable Metadata for E-books
Tironet
Trans-Ireland Optical Network
TITAN
Tourist Information and Travel Assistance Network - IMPACT project
TiU
Tilburg University, The Netherlands
TLC
The Library Corporation (USA)
TLS
Swedish Association of Information Specialists (formerly Swedish Society for Technical
Documentation)
TNA
The National Archives (UK)
TOC
Table of Contents
TOCRoSS
Table of Contents by Really Simple Syndication
TPS
Technological Protection Systems
TQ
Total Quality
TRIPS
Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
TSV
tab separated values (text format)
TTP
trusted third party
TULIP
The University Licensing Program
TUPE
Transfer of undertakings(protection of employment)
TUT
Technische Universiteit Twente Bibliothek
TV
television
UA
University of Arizona (USA)
UAP
Universal Availability of Publications - IFLA Core programme
UBC
Universal Bibliographic Control
UBCIM
Universal Bibliographic Control - IFLA Core programme
UBiRD
User Behaviour in Resarch Discovery (JISC report)
UC
University of California (USA)
UCD
University College Dublin (Ireland)
UCG
University College, Galway
UCISA
Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association
UCL
University College London
UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles (USA)
UCNW
University College of North Wales (Bangor)
UCSF
University of California, San Francisco (USA)
UCU
UDT
UEA
Ufl
Ufl
UIUC
UK
UKAPE
UKB
UKERNA
UK HE
UKHEI
UKMARC
UKPMC
UKNFP
UKNUC
UKOLN
UKRDS
UKRR
UKSG
ULRLS
UMDS
UMI
UMLS
UMRCC
UNDP
UNESCO
UNI
UNIMARC
UniProtKB
UniSA
UNISIST
Unix
University and College Union (UK)
Universal Dataflow and telecommunication - IFLA Core programme
University of East Anglia
Usage factor
University for Industry
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
United Kingdom
United Kingdom Association of Publishing Educators
The Association of Dutch University Libraries, the Royal Library, and the Library of the Royal
Academy of Sciences (The Netherlands)
United Kingdom Educational and Research Networking Association
United Kingdom Higher Education
United Kingdom Higher Education Institution
United Kingdom MARC format
United Kingdom arm of PubMed Central
UK National Focal Point ( for European Libraries Programme)
United Kingdom Union Catalogue
Office for Library and Information Networking (UK)
UK Research Data Service
UK Research Reserve project
United Kingdom Serials Group (now known simply by its acronym: UKSG)
former name for group of libraries: University of London Research Library Service [see SHL
for new group name]
United Medical and Dental School, University of London
University Microfilms Inc.
unified medical language system
University of Manchester Regional Computing Centre
United Nations Development Programme
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Italian national standards institution
Universal MARC format
Universal Protein Knowledge Base
University of South Australia
Universal System for Information in Science and Technology
a portable operating system - operating on mainframes down to PC's
UoA
UoL
UoSL
UPTURN
UPV
UREP
URI
URICA
URL
URN
US(A)
USAS
USAS
USBE
USC
USMARC
USSR
UStat
USTC
UW
UWIC
UU
UUK
UUP
VAAP
VADL
VAN
VAT
VC
VGA
VIAF
V-ISAN
VITAL
Unit of Assessment (as used in RAEs)
University of Liverpool
University of Sussex Library
Umbrella Proposal for Telematics for Users and Research Networks
Universitat Politècnica de València
Undergraduate Research Experience Programme (funded by QNRF)
uniform resource identifier
automated library system - "Universal Real-time Information Control Administration" product of McDonnell Douglas Information Systems Ltd.
uniform resource locator
universal resource name
United States(of America)
(i) Ulrich's Serials Analysis System (Bowker)
(ii) UCREL Semantic Analysis System (devised at University of Lancaster)
United States Book Exchange
University of Southern California (USA)
United States MARC format
Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics
statistics storage and analysis tool (from Ex Libris)
Universal Short Title Catalogue project (St Andrews University)
University of Washington
University of Wales Institute Cardiff
University of Ulster
Universities UK
University of Utah Press (USA)
authors agency in former USSR
Victorian Academic Digital Library (CAVAL initiative, Australia)
value-added network
value-added tax
Vice Chancellor
video graphics array
Virtual International Authority File
ISAN for different versions of audiovisual publications
Visitors Information on Transport and Locations - IMPACT project - RARE initiative
VIVA
VJOL
VK
VL
VLE
VOLNET
VoR
VPIEJF-L
VPN
VRE
VSAT
VT
VT100
WAG
WAIS
WAME
WAN
WAP
WAP
Watch
WAYF
WAYFless
WCL
WCT
WebDoc
WECARD
WCMC
WG(BBSRC)
WHELF
WILIP
The Virtual Library of Virginia ( consortium of 39 public colleges and universities in Virginia,
USA)
Vietnam Journals Online
Verbundkatalog maschinenlesbarer Datenrager - German national
virtual library
virtual learning environment
online information service run by the Volunteer Centre (UK)
version of record
discussion list/list server provided by Virginia Polytechnic and University for those interested
in electronic publishing
virtual private net
virtual research environment
very small aperture terminals
Virtual Terminal - term used for ISO 9040/9041 for interfacing different kinds of terminals
with open systems cf VT100
series of DEC terminals
Writers' Action Group
Wide Area Information Service
World Association of Medical Editors
wide area network
(i) wireless application protocol
(ii) Wissenschaftler-Arbeitsplatz-Programm (Germany)
Writers and their Copyright Holders - database of copyright holders being compiled by
Reading University Library etc.
Where are you from? (process used in checking username/password)
URL where you are not required to login with username/password
WorldCat Local
WIPO Copyright Treaty 1996
project offering users access to electronic journal articles run by a consortium of Dutch and
German academic libraries and PICA
West and Central African Council for Research and Development
Weill Cornell Medical College (US, and also WCMC-Q in Qatar)
Working Group of BBSRC
Wales Higher Education Libraries Forum
The Wider Information and Library Issues Project
WIN
WinPac
Wissenschaftsnetz - German nationwide x.25 research network
interface launched by Dynix combining the Z39.50 protocol and the Gopher to allow libraries
to share bibliographic information over the Internet
WIPO
World Intellectual Property Organization
Wisdom
Wellcome Information Service Databases on Medicine
WITSA
World Information Technology and Services Alliance
WMRLS
West Midlands Regional Library System
WMS
Web-scale Management Services (OCLC)
WOS
Web of Science
WoSEC
Web of Science Enhancement Committee
WPG
Willings Press Guide
WPPT
WIPO Performance and Phonogram Treaty
WSIHE
West Sussex Institute of Higher Education
WTO
World Trade Organization
WWW [also: W3]
World Wide Web
X12
ANSI standard for electronic data interchange
X.25
CCITT standard specifying the interface between a user's device and the modem , for packet
mode operation over a packet switching system
X.400
CCITT definition of a message handling system for public or private electronic mail
X.400/MOTIS see MOTIS
X.500
CCITT definition of the directory function to be used with X.400 e-mail services
X.509
Specification for digital certificates
XML
Extensible mark-up language
XREP
XML request and response protocol
YAHOO
Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle - Internet search engine
z39.50
ISO standard for an information retrieval protocol for intersystem searching
ZBM, Koln
Zentralbibliothek der Medezin, Koln
ZDB
Zeitschriftendatenbank - German union catalogue for periodicals maintained by the DBI