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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Initialisms." National Research Council. 2004. Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11030.
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Appendix D
Acronyms and Initialisms


AJOL

African Journals OnLine

arXiv

e-print service

ASEA

Association of Surgeons of East Africa


BMJ

British Medical Journal


CERN

European Organisation for Nuclear Research

CIS

Commonwealth of Independent States

CODATA

Committee on Data for Science and Technology

CRIA

Reference Center for Environmental Information (Brazil)

CRID

Regional Disaster Information Center


DATAD

Database of African Theses and Dissertations

DMCA

Digital Millennium Copyright Act, United States

DRM

digital rights management


EDNES

Earth Data Network for Education and Scientific Exchange

eSAP

electronic Supply of Academic Publications

E.U.

European Union


FOIA

Freedom of Information Act


GEANT

detector description and simulation tool

GIS

geographical information systems

GNU

GNU not Unix (refers to Stallman’s free software movement)

GPS

Global Positioning System


HBU

historically black university

HINARI

Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative

HWU

historically white university

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Initialisms." National Research Council. 2004. Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11030.
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HWU-A

historically white Afrikaans university

HWU-E

historically white English university


ICSTI

International Council for Scientific and Technical Information

ICSU

International Council for Science

ICT

information and communication technology

INASP

International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications

INDMED

Indian Biomedical Journals Database

INSERM

French Institute of Health and Medical Research

IP

intellectual property

IPR

intellectual property right

ISTIP

International Scientific and Technical Information Programs


JPM

Journal of Postgraduate Medicine


MODIS

Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer


NDVI

normalized difference vegetation index

NEPAD

New Partnership for Africa’s Development

NGO

nongovernmental organization

NIST

National Institute for Science and Technology, United States

NLM

National Library of Medicine, United States

NSDI

National Spatial Data Infrastructure


OAI

Open Archives Initiative

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OSVITA

Ukrainian national educational information system


PAHO

Pan American Health Organization

PDB

Protein Data Bank

PERI

Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information


R&D

research and development


SADC

South African Development Community

SciDev.Net

Science and Development Network

SPARC

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

STACCIS

Support for Telematics Applications Cooperation with the CIS


TPM

technological protection measures

TRIPS

Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property (agreement)


UNESCO

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNIDO

United Nations Industrial Development Organization

URAN

Ukrainian Research and Academic Network


WHO

World Health Organization

WIPO

World Intellectual Property Organization

WSIS

World Summit on the Information Society

WTO

World Trade Organization


XML

extensible markup language

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Initialisms." National Research Council. 2004. Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11030.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Initialisms." National Research Council. 2004. Open Access and the Public Domain in Digital Data and Information for Science: Proceedings of an International Symposium. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/11030.
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This symposium, which was held on March 10-11, 2003, at UNESCO headquarters in Paris, brought together policy experts and managers from the government and academic sectors in both developed and developing countries to (1) describe the role, value, and limits that the public domain and open access to digital data and information have in the context of international research; (2) identify and analyze the various legal, economic, and technological pressures on the public domain in digital data and information, and their potential effects on international research; and (3) review the existing and proposed approaches for preserving and promoting the public domain and open access to scientific and technical data and information on a global basis, with particular attention to the needs of developing countries.

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