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PROCEEDINGS OF THE WORKSHOP ON PROMOTING ACCESS TO SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DATA FOR THE PUBLIC INTEREST: AN ASSESSMENT OF POLICY OPTIONS
IEEE
Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IP
Internet protocol
IPR
intellectual property right
IRB
Institutional Review Board
ISI
Institute for Scientific Information, Inc.
ITA
International Trade Administration
LTER
Long-Term Ecological Research
MB
megabyte
MMDB
Molecular Modeling Database
NavTech
Navigation Technologies, Inc.
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NBII
National Biological Information Infrastructure
NCAR
National Center for Atmospheric Research
NCBI
National Center for Biotechnology Information
NCDC
National Climatic Data Center
NESDIS
National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service
netCDF
network common data form
NEXRAD
Next Generation Radar
NHGRI
National Human Genome Research Institute
NIH
National Institutes of Health
NIST
National Institute of Standards and Technology
NLM
National Library of Medicine
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NRC
National Research Council
NSDI
National Spatial Data Infrastructure
NSF
National Science Foundation
NWIS
National Weather and Information System
NWS
National Weather Service
OCR
optical character recognition
OMB
Office of Management and Budget
OMIM
Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man
PC
personal computer
PDB
Protein Data Bank
R&D
research and development
REFPROP
Thermodynamic and Transport Properties of Refrigerants and Refrigerant Mixtures Database