Acronyms

From OAD

• This is a list of acronyms commonly used in discussions of open access.
• In most cases 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.
• Alphabetical.

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A

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

• ATA. Alliance for Taxpayer Access

B

• BBB. Budapest Bethesda Berlin. The three major public statements defining OA.

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

• DOAJ. Directory of Open Access Journals

E

• ETD. Electronic theses and dissertations.

F

• FOF. Friends of Frontiers Research Foundation
• FOSS. Free and open source software.

I

• IP. Intellectual property. Also IPR, intellectual property rights.
• IPOA. Informationsplattform open-access.net

• IR. Institutional repository

J

• JISC. Joint Information Systems Committee

O

• OA. Open access

• OAD. (1) Open Access Directory, (2) Open Access Day

• OAI. Open Archives Initiative

• OAI-PMH. Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

• OAN. Open Access News

• OASIS. Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook

• OATP. Open Access Tracking Project

• OCW. Open CourseWare

• OER. Open educational resource

• OpenDOAR. Directory of Open Access Repositories

P

• POD. Print on demand.

• PSI. Public sector information.

R

• ROAR. Registry of Open Access Repositories

• ROARMAP. Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies

S

• SCOAP3. Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics

• SHERPA. Securing a Hybrid Environment for Research Preservation and Access

• 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.