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* '''EOS'''.  Enabling Open Scholarship.  (''Eos'' is also the Greek word for ''dawn'' or ''sunrise''.)
 
* '''EOS'''.  Enabling Open Scholarship.  (''Eos'' is also the Greek word for ''dawn'' or ''sunrise''.)
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* '''ESOC'''.  [https://ec.europa.eu/research/openscience/index.cfm?pg=open-science-cloud European Open Science Cloud].
  
 
* '''ETD'''.  Electronic theses and dissertations.
 
* '''ETD'''.  Electronic theses and dissertations.
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* '''OASIS'''.  [http://www.openoasis.org/ Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook].
 
* '''OASIS'''.  [http://www.openoasis.org/ Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook].
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* '''OASPA'''.  [https://oaspa.org Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association].
  
 
* '''OATP'''.  [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_Tracking_Project Open Access Tracking Project].
 
* '''OATP'''.  [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/hoap/Open_Access_Tracking_Project Open Access Tracking Project].
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== T ==
 
== T ==
  
* '''TA'''.  Toll access. Commonly used as the opposite of OA.
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* '''TA'''.  Toll access. Formerly the term most commonly used as the opposite of OA. Today it's largely superseded by ''paywalled''.

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  • This is a list of acronyms commonly used in discussing open access.
  • It's enough to supply the phrases for which the acronyms stand, without further definition. You may include a short annotation if there is no link available.

A

  • APC. Article processing charge. Also called a "publication fee" (with no acronym).

B

  • BPC. Book processing charge. By analogy to APC (article processing charge), above.

C

  • CC. Creative Commons. And so on for the various CC licenses, such as CC-BY for "by" or attribution; CC-NC for no commercial use; CC-ND for no derivative works; CC-SA for share-alike; and some combinations like CC-BY-NC-ND and CC-BY-NC-SA.

D

E

  • EOS. Enabling Open Scholarship. (Eos is also the Greek word for dawn or sunrise.)
  • ETD. Electronic theses and dissertations.

F

  • FAIR. Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable. See the FAIR Principles (March 2016).
  • FLOSS. Free/libre and open source software. Sometimes FOSS.

G

H

I

  • IP. Intellectual property. Also IPR, intellectual property rights.

J

N

O

  • OA. Open access.
  • OAJ. Open access journal.
  • OCW. Open CourseWare.
  • OER. Open educational resource(s).

P

  • PSI. Public sector information.

R

S

  • STEM. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (as fields of study).
  • SSH. Social sciences and humanities (as fields of study). Sometimes HSS.

T

  • TA. Toll access. Formerly the term most commonly used as the opposite of OA. Today it's largely superseded by paywalled.