Abbreviations

AAL	The Association of Assistant Librarian
AARLN	Australian Academic and Research Library Network
AGRIS	Agricultural Research Information System
AIBA	Agricultural Information bank for Asia
APALA	Asian Pacific American Librarians Associations
ASCII	American Standard Code for Information Interchange
BCD	Binary Code Decimal
BIOSIS	Bio science information Service
BLAISE	British Library Automated Information System
BLLD	British Library lending division
BLPC	British Library Public Catalogue
BUCOP	British Union Catalogue of Periodicals
CAIN	Cataloguing Indexing System
CAKIS	Chemical Abstracts Keyword Index Service
CALIS	China Academic Library and Information System
CARIS	Current Agricultural Research Information System
CBAC	Chemical Biological Activities
CDS/ISIS	Computerized Documentation System-Integrated Set of Information System
CEIS	Central Excise Information System
CICI	Confederation of Information Communication Industries
CILIP	Charted Institute of Library and Information Professional
CIS	Cataloguing in Source
CIX	Commercial Internet Exchange
CLAS	Computerised Library Acquisition System
COBOL	Common Business Oriented Language
CODATA	Council on Data for Science & Technology
COMARC	Cooperative Machine Readable Cataloguing
COMPENDEX	Computerized Engineering Index
CONCERT	Consortium on Core Electronic resources in Taiwan
COSATI	Committee on Scientific & Technical Information
CPM	Critical Path Method
CRG	Classification Research Group
CROSS	Computer Rearrangement of Subject Specialties
CTI	Current technology Index
CURL	Consortium of University Research libraries
DAI	Dissertations Abstracts International
DARE	Data Retrieval System for Documentation in Social Science
DAT	Digital audio Tape
DBNAct	Delivery of Books & Newspapers Act
DCEPC	Decimal Classification Editorial Policy
DFS	Document Finding System
DFT	Display or Print Formats
DMCA	Digital Millennium Copyright Act
DOI	Digital Object Identifier
DRTC	Documentation Research Training Centre
DSIR	Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
DSL	Digital Subscriber Link
EAD	Encoded Archival Description
EAEC	European Atomic Energy community
ENIAC	Electronic Numerical Integrated and Calculator
EPROM	Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
ERIC	Educational Resource Information Centre
ERIC	Educational Resources Information Centre
ERNET	Education And Research Network
ERNET	Education and Research Network
FALA	Federation of Asian Library Associations
FILA	Federation of Indian Library Association
FLECC	Federal Libraries Expressing in Cooperative Catalogue
FMT	Field Maintenance Table
FORSA	Forum for Resource Sharing in Astronomy and Astrophysics
FORTRAN	Formula Translation
FST	Field Select Table
GIF	Graphics Interchange Format
GILA	Government of India Library Association
GISTINIC	General Information Service Terminal of the National Informatics Centre
HSDB	Hazardous Substances Data bank
IAC	Information Analysis Centres
ICCP	Inter-Government Programme for Co-operation
ICSU	International Council of Scientific Unions
IDAL	Illinois Digital Academic Library
IIB	Institute International De Bibliography
ILRC	Indian Library Resource Centre
ILRC	Inter Library Resource Center
IME	International Medium Edition
IMPACT	Information Market Policy Action(EUROPE)
INDEST	Indian National Digital Library in Science and Technology
INDONET	Indian Documentation Networks
INPADOC	International Patent Documentation Centre
INS	Inter Networking System
INSDOC	Indian National Scientific Documentation Center
INSPEC	Information Service for the Physics and Engineering Communities
IPAB	Intellectual Property Appellate Board
IPEA	International Preliminary Examination Authority
IPR	Intellectual Property Right
IRC	Internet Relay Chart
ISDN	Integrated Services Digital Network
ISDS	International Serials Data System
ISIS	Indian Standards Information Systems
ISO	International Organization for Standardization
ISORID	International Information System on Research in Documentation
ISORID	International Information System on Research in Documentation
ISP	Internet Service Providers
ISTA	Indian Social Science Translators Association
ITC	International Translation Center
JANET	Joint Academic Network
JISC	Joint Information Systems committee
JOCLAI	Joint Council of Library Association in India
JPEG	Joint Photographic Expert Group
KERIS	Korean Education & research Information Service
KLIC	Keyword Letter in Context System
KWAC	key-word Augmented-in-context
KWOC	key-word out-of-context
KWOT	Keyword out of Title
LCCN	Library of Congress Control Number
LCSH	Library Congress of Subject Headings
MABD	Machine Readable Bibliographic Data
MEDLARS	Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System
MESH	Medical Subject Headings
METS	Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard
MIME	Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MODS	Metadata Object Description Schema
MPEG	Moving Photographic Experts Group
NACIDS	National Access Centers for International Database
NAPC	National Programme for Acquisitions and Cataloguing
NCI	National Cancer Institute
NCLIS	National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
NDL	National Digital Library
NERC	National Educational Resource Center
NIC	National Informatics Center
NIH	National Institute of Health
NIIPM	National Institute for Intellectual Property Management
NIP	National Information Policy
NISCAIR	National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources
NKC	National Knowledge Commission
NTC	National Translation Center
NUCSSI	National Union Catalogue of Scientific Serials in India
NUCSSI	National Union Catalogue of Scientific Serials
OAI	Open Archives Initiatives
OAI-PMH	Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
OCR	Optical Character Recognition
OECD	Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
OOSP	Office of Outreach and Special Populations
PIS	Patent Information System
POPSI	Postulate Based Permuted Subject Indexing
POTS	Plain Old Telephone Services
PPBS	Planning Programming and Budgeting Systems
PRECIS	Preserved Context Indexing System
RDA	Resource Description and Access
RILISAR	Ranganathan Institute of Library and Information Bulletin for Applied Research
RRRLF	Rajaram Mohan Roy Foundation Library
SENDO	Small Enterprises National Documentation Centre
SIB	Scientific Information Bureau
SIG	Special Interest Groups
SIR	Source Information Rate
SIRNET	Scientific & Industrial Research Network
SIS	Specialized Information Services
SIS	Society for Information Science
SOAS	Standing Order Abstract Service
SOUL	Software for University Libraries
SPRILIB	Scott Polar Research Institute Library
SQL	Structured Query Language
TCP/IP	Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TDM	Time Division Multiplexing
TRIPS	Trade Related Aspects of Property Rights
UNISIS	World Science Information System
UNIVAC	Universal Automatic Computer
URL	Uniform Resource Locator
VERONICA	Very Easy Rodent Oriented Netwise Index to Computerised Archives
WAIS	Wide Area Information Server