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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms." National Research Council. 1999. Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9693.
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Appendix D

Abbreviations and Acronyms

AAP

Association of American Publishers

AIChE

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

ACL

access control list

ACS

American Chemical Society

ARL

Association of Research Libraries

ATM

asynchronous transfer mode

CAS

Chemical Abstracts Service

CD-ROM

compact disk—read only memory

CODATA

Committee on Data for Science and Technology (ICSU)

CODIAC

Cooperative Distributed Interactive Atmospheric Catalogue

CRADA

Cooperative Research and Development Agreement

DDBJ

DNA Database of Japan

DIPPR

Design Institute for Physical Properties Research

DNA

deoxyribonucleic acid

DOD

Department of Defense

DOE

Department of Energy

DODS

Distributed Oceanographic Data System

DOQ

digital orthophoto quadrangles

EPA

Environmental Protection Agency

EMBL

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

EU

European Union

FAR

Federal Acquisition Regulation

FOIA

Freedom of Information Act

FTC

Federal Trade Commission

FTP

file transfer protocol

FY

Fiscal Year

GB

gigabyte

GIS

geographic information system

GPS

Global Positioning System

HR

House Resolution

HCSN

High Capacity Satellite Network

HTML

hypertext mark-up language

ICSU

International Council for Science

IDD

Internet Data Distribution

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms." National Research Council. 1999. Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9693.
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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

S&T

scientific and technical

SDTS

spatial data transfer standard

STN

Science and Technology Network

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms." National Research Council. 1999. Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9693.
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TASC

The Analytical Corporation

UCAR

University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

UCC

Uniform Commercial Code

UCTTA

Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act

UniGene

Unique Human Gene Sequence Collection

USC

United States Code

USGS

United States Geological Survey

WIPO

World Intellectual Property Organization

WMO

World Meteorilogical Organization

WSI

Weather Services International

WWW

World Wide Web

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms." National Research Council. 1999. Proceedings of the Workshop on Promoting Access to Scientific and Technical Data for the Public Interest: An Assessment of Policy Options. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/9693.
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