Acronyms
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This list is part of the Open Access Directory.
- 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
- ALM. Article Level Metrics.
- 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
- DMP. Data management plan.
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
- GOAL. Global Open Access List.
H
- HOAP. Harvard Open Access Project.
I
- IP. Intellectual property. Also IPR, intellectual property rights.
J
- JIF. Journal Impact Factor. Sometimes, IF (Impact Factor).
N
O
- OA. Open access.
- OAD. (1) Open Access Directory, (2) Open Access Day.
- OAI. Open Archives Initiative.
- OAJ. Open access journal.
- OAN. (1) Open Access News, (2) Open Access Network.
- OATP. Open Access Tracking Project.
- OAW. Open Access Week.
- OCW. Open CourseWare.
- OER. Open educational resource(s).
- OpenDOAR. Directory of Open Access Repositories.
P
- PD. Public domain.
- PLOS. Public Library of Science.
- PMC. PubMed Central. Not to be confused with its cousin, PubMed.
- POD. Print on demand.
- PSI. Public sector information.
R
- RCUK. Research Councils UK.
S
- SOAF. SPARC Open Access Forum.
- SOAN. SPARC Open Access Newsletter.
- STM. (1) Science, technology, and medicine (as fields of study); (2) International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers.
- SPARC. Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. See also, SPARC Europe.
- SSH. Social sciences and humanities (as fields of study). Sometimes HSS.
T
- TA. Toll access. Commonly used as the opposite of OA.