Biological Informatics Acronyms List
developed by Information International Associates, Inc., 2001
AARP
American Association of
Retired Persons
AASL
American Association of
School Librarians
ABA
American Bar Association
ABI
Association
for Biodiversity Information
ACS
American
Chemical Society
ACRL
Association of College and
Research Libraries
ACURIL
Association of Caribbean
University, Research, and Institutional Libraries
ADP
Automated Data Processing
AF
United
States Air Force
AFB
Air Force Base
AFMIC
Armed Forces Medical Intelligence
Center
AFCEA
Armed Forces Communication and Electronic Association
AGARD
Advisory Group for Aerospace
Research and Development
AgNIC
Agriculture Network Information
Center
AIIM
Association for Information
and Image Management
ALA
American Libraries
Association
AIP American Institute of Physician
APASG
Advanced Information Processing and Analysis Steering Group
ALCTS
Association for Library Collections and Technical Services
ALSC
Association for Library Service to Children
ALTA
American Library Trustee Association
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
APS
American Physics Society
ARIN
Aerospace Research Information Network
ARMA
Association of Record Managers and Administrators
ARL
Association
of Research Libraries
ARS
Agricultural Research Service
ASCLA
Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies
ASIDIC
Association of Information
and Dissemination Centers
ASIST
American Society for Information Science & Technology
ASQ
American Society for Quality
ASPRS
American Society for Photogammetry and Remote Sensing
ASTM
American Standard of Testing Material
ASTRO/CD
Aerospace Scientific and Technical Research on CD-ROM
ATBI
All
Taxa Biodiversity Inventory
ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
BET
Barbados External Telecommunications
BDT
Base de Dados Tropical
BioEco
Biodiversity and Ecosystems Informatics Working Group
BLS
Board of Life Science
BRD
(OSTI)
Bibliographic Record Documentation
BRD
(USGS)
Biological Resources Division
CASI
Center for Aerospace Information
CBD
Convention on Biodiversity
CD-ROM
Compact Disk - Read-Only Memory
CDB
Caribbean Development Bank
CDC
Centers
for Disease Control
CENR
Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
CENDI
Commerce, Energy, EPA, NASA, National Libraries of Agriculture,
Education, and Medicine, Defense, and Interior
CFR
Code of Federal Regulations
CERES
California Environmental
Resources Evaluation System
CEQ
Council
on Environmental Quality
CICC
Committee on Information, Computing, and Communications (OSTP/NSTC)
CIESIN
Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network
CIO
Chief Information Officer
CIRC
Central Information Reference & Control
CISTI
Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
CIRCLA
Chesapeake Information and
Research Library Alliance
CLENERT
Continuing Library Education Network and Exchange Round Table
CLR
Council of Library Resources
CNI
Coalition for Networked Information
CNIE
Committee for the National Institute for the Environment
– NOTE:
Changed name; see NCSE
CNRI
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
CODATA
Committee on Data
COI
Communities
of Interest
COSATI
Committee on Scientific and Technical Information
COSMIC
Computer Software Management and Information Center
COSWL
Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship
COTR
Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative
CRDA
Cooperative Research and Development Agreement
CRM
Customer Relationships Management
CRS
Congressional Research Service
CSA
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
CSAL
Corporate Source Authority List
CUNet
Caribbean Academic, Scientific, and Technological Network
DAA
Document Availability Authorization
DARPA
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DCAA
Defense Contract Audit Agency
DFAS
Defense Finance and
Accounting Service
DIA
Defense Intelligence Agency
DIS
Defense Information Service (Australia)
DISA
Defense
Information Systems Agency
DoD
Department of Defense
DROLS
Defense Research Development,
Test, and Evaluation Online System
DOE
Department of Energy
DSS
Decision
Support System
DTIC
Defense Technical Information Center
EDB
Energy Science & Technology Database
EDMS
Electronic Document Management System
ELV
Expendable Launch Vehicle
EMIERT
Ethnic Materials Information Exchange Round Table
EOS
Earth Observing System
ERIC
Educational
Resources Information Center
ESA
European Space Agency
ESRO
European Space Research Organization (now ESA)
ESRO
European Space Research Organization
ETDB
Energy Technology Database
ETDE
Energy Technology Data Exchange
EUSIDIC
European Association of Information
Services
FBIS
Foreign Broadcast Information Services
FCCSET
Federal Coordinating Committee on Science, Engineering and Technology
FDLP
Federal Depository Library Program
FEMA
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FGDC
Federal Geographic Data Committee
FGIC
Federal Government Information Clearinghouse
FIDUL
Federal Intelligent Document Understanding Lab
FIRMPOC
Federal Information Resource Management Policy Council
FLICC
Federal Library and Information Center Committee
FLRT
Federal Librarians Round Table
FOCI
Foreign Ownership Control and Influence Act
FOLUSA
Friends of Libraries USA
FSLAP
Foreign Science Library Applications Program
GAO
Government Accounting Office
GBF
Global
Biodiversity Forum
GEF
Global Environmental Facility
GBIF
Global
Biodiversity Information Facility
GCRP
Global Change Research Program
GIDEP
Government Industry Data Exchange Program
GFE
Government furnished equipment
GIS
Geographical
Information Systems
GLOBE
Global Observation and Learning to Benefit the Environment
GODORT
Government Documents Round Table
GPEA
Government Paperwork
Elimination Act
GPO
Government Printing Office
GPRA
Government Performance and
Results Act
HARV
High Alpha Research Vehicle
HCFA
Health Care Financing
Administration
IAA
International Aerospace Abstracts
IAC
Industrial Application Center
IAEA
International Atomic Energy Agency
ICSTI
International Council for Scientific and Technical Information
ICSU
International Council of Scientific Unions
ICTAF
Interdisciplinary Center for Technological Analysis and Forecasting, at
Tel-Aviv University
IDLSE
Interagency Digital Library
of Science and Engineering
IEEE
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IFC
Intellectual Freedom Committee
IFLA
International
Federation of Library Associations
IFRT
Intellectual Freedom Round Table
IIa
Information International Associates, Inc.
IIA
Information Industry Association
NOTE: Name changed; see SIAA
IIITG
Interagency IRM Infrastructure Task Group
ILAS
Integrated Library Automated System
ILERT
Independent Librarians Exchange Round Table
INIS
International Nuclear Information System
INIST
Institut de L'Information Scientifique et Technique
IP
Information
Policy or Intellectual Property
IPCC
Information Policy and Copyright Committee
IRC
International Relations Committee (IIa: Internet Resource Center)
IRM
Information Resources Management
IRRT
International Relations Round Table
ISA
Israeli Space Agency
ISEC
Integrated Science for Ecosystems Challenges
ISO
International Standards Organization
ISSN
International
Standard Serial Number
ISTP
International Solar-Terrestrial Physics
ISY
International Space Year
ITIS
Integrated Taxonomic Information System
ITU
International Telecommunications Union
IUCN
International Union for the Conservation of Nature
JCP
Joint Committee on Printing
JIVA
Joint
Intelligence Virtual Architecture
KM
Knowledge Management
LAMA
Library Administration and Management Association
LAN
Local Area Network
LC
Library of Congress
LHRT
Library History Round Table
LINCS
Literacy Information and
Communication System
LIRT
Library Instruction Round Table
LITA
Library and Information Technology Association
LoC
Library of Congress
LRRT
Library Research Round Table
LTER
Long Term Ecological Research
MAI
Machine-Aided Indexing
MARC
Machine Readable Cataloging
MT
Machine Translation
MTPE
Mission to Planet Earth
NABIN
North American Biodiversity Information Network
NACA
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
NAFTA
North American Free Trade Agreement
NAIC
National Air Intelligence Center
NAL
National
Agricultural Library
NAM
NASA Access Mechanism
NARA
National Archives & Records Administration
NAS
National Academy of Sciences
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASDA
National Space Development Agency of Japan
NASP
National Aero-Space Plan
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NBII
National Biological Informatics Infrastructure
NCBI
National Center for Biotechnology Information
NCSE
National Council for Science and the Environment (Formerly CNIE)
NCL
Non-Conventional Literature
NCLIS
National Commission on Libraries and Information Science
NCMA
National Contract Management Association
NCSA
National Center for Super Computing Applications
NCSTI
National Center for Scientific and Technical Information
NCSTRL
Networked Computer Science
Technical Reports Library
NFAIS
National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services
NGO
Non-Government Organization
NIFL
National
Institute for Literacy
NIMA
National Imagery and Mapping Agency
NISC
National Information Services Corporation
NISO
National Information Standards Organization
NIST
National Institute of Standards & Technology
NLE
National
Library of Education
NLM
National Library of Medicine
NMI
NASA Management Instruction
NMRT
New Members Round Table
NNSA
National Nuclear Security Administration
NOAA
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NPR
National Performance Review
NRCS
National Resources
Conservation Service
NREN
National Research and Education Network
NSDI
National Spatial Data Infrastructure
NSSDC
National Space Science Data Center
NSTC
National Science and
Technology Council
NTIS
National Technical Information Service
NTRC
National Transportation
Research Centers
OAST
Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology
OBIS
Ocean
Biogeographical Information System
OCLC
Online Computer Library Center
OCR
Optical Character Recognition
ODI
Optical Data Imaging
OECS
Organization of Eastern Caribbean States
OIRA
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs
OLOS
Office for Library Outreach Services
OLPR
Office for Library Personnel Resources
OMB
Office of Management & Budget
OPAC
Online public access catalog
OSCP
Office of State and Community Programs
OSIS
Open Source Information System
OSTI
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
OSTP
Office of Science and Technology Policy
OTA
Office of Technology Assessment
PAHO
Pan American Health Organization
PDF
Portable
Document Format
PIO