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ACRONYM
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FULL NAME
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ACRONYM
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FULL NAME
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AAAS
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American Association for the Advancement of
Science
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ICS
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International Council for Science
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AAS
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African Academy of Sciences
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ICT
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Information and Communication Technologies
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AAUP
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Association of American University Presses
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INASP
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International Network for the Availability of
Scientific Publications
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AEA
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American Economics Association
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ISI
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Institute for Scientific Information
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AJOL
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African Journals OnLine
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ISO
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International Standardization Organisation
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ALCS
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Author's Licensing and Collecting Service
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Mcommerce
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Mobile (phone) commerce
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ALPSP
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Association of Learned and Professional Society
Publishers
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MIT
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Massachusett
Institute of Technology
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APA
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American Psychological Association
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MMRC
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Multimedia Rights Clearance
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BIOLINE
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A partnership providing an electronic publications
service for academic journals in developing countries
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NSF
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National Science Foundation
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BIREME
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Latin American and Caribbean Centre on Health
Sciences Information
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OCLC
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Online Computer Library Centre
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CD-ROM
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Compact Disc Random Operating Memory
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PDF
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Portable Document Format
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CLA
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Copyright Licensing Agency
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Preprint
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Early version of an article
(not refereed)
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CLARCS
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Copyright Licensing Agency's Rapid Clearance
Services
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PSP
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Professional & Scholarly Publishing
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CODESRIA
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Council for the Development of Social Science
Research in Africa
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R & D
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Research & Development
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CRM
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Customer Relationship Management
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RRO
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Reproduction Rights Organisations
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DFID
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Department For International Development (UK)
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SABDET
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Southern African Book Development Trust
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DOI
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Digital Object Identifier
(a unique and persistent identifier assigned at the moment of
creation of a document that will define it for life, independent of where
it is located)
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SciELO
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Scientific Electronic Library Online Project
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EASY
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Electronic Article Supply
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SGML
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Standard Generalised
Markup Language (a meta-language for marking the structure of documents and
data). HTML is a subset of SGML.
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Ebooks
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Electronic books
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SPARC
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Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resourcing Coalition
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EC
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European Community
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SSP
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Society for Scholarly Publishing
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EJP
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Electronic Journal Publishing
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S & T
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Science & Technology
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Elib
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Electronic Library's (Programme)
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STM
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International Association of Scientific, Technical
and Medical Publishers
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EP
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Electronic Publishing
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TOC
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Table of Contents (of journals)
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Eprints
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Electronic copies of final peer-reviewed articles
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UN
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United Nations
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EPT
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Electronic Publishing Trust for Development
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UNESCO
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United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organisation
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FTP
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File Transfer Protocol
(protocol for moving files over the internet from 1 computer to
another)
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URL
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Uniform Resource Locator
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HEDs
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Higher Education Departments
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WIPO
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World International Publishing Organisation
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HEIs
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Higher Education Institutes
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WWW (www)
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World Wide Web
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HTML (html)
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Hypertext Markup Language (format for web
documents)
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XML
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eXtensible Markup
Language
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