Acronyms

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

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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

• 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. Basically, government data, as opposed to research data.

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.