Acronyms

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 (or author processing charge, if it is not connected to an article).  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.


 * BOAI. Budapest Open Access Initiative.


 * 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.


 * COPE. Compact for Open-Access Publishing Equity.

D

 * DMP. Data management plan.


 * DOAJ. Directory of Open Access Journals.


 * DPLA. Digital Public Library of America.

E

 * EOS. Enabling Open Scholarship.  (Eos is also the Greek word for dawn or sunrise.)


 * ESOC. European Open Science Cloud.


 * ETD. Electronic theses and dissertations.

F

 * FAIR. Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable. See the FAIR Principles (March 2016).


 * FASTR. Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act.


 * FLOSS. Free/libre and open source software.  Sometimes FOSS.


 * FRPAA. Federal Research Public Access Act.

G

 * GOAL. Global Open Access List.

H

 * HOAP. Harvard Open Access Project.

I

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


 * IPOA. Informationsplattform open-access.net.


 * IR. Institutional repository.

J

 * JIF. Journal Impact Factor. Sometimes, IF (Impact Factor).


 * JISC. Joint Information Systems Committee.

N

 * NITRC. Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse.

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.


 * OAJ. Open access journal.


 * OAN. (1) Open Access News, (2) Open Access Network.


 * OASIS. Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook.


 * OASPA. Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.


 * OATP. Open Access Tracking Project.


 * OAW.  Open Access Week.


 * OCW. Open CourseWare.


 * OER. Open educational resource(s).


 * OLH. Open Library of Humanities


 * 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.


 * ROAR. Registry of Open Access Repositories.


 * ROARMAP. Registry of Open Access Repository Material Archiving Policies.


 * RoMEO. Rights MEtadata for Open archiving.

S

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


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


 * SOAF. SPARC Open Access Forum.


 * SOAN. SPARC Open Access Newsletter.


 * STEM. Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (as fields of study).


 * 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. Formerly the term most commonly used as the opposite of OA. Today it's largely superseded by paywalled.