LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

AAP Association of American Publishers

ABI Application Binary Interface

AEC Atomic Energy Commission

AGRIS Agricultural Research Information System or International Bibliographic Information System for the Agricultural Science and Technology AGRICOLA Bibliographic database of citations to the Agricultural Literature

AICSIP All India Coordinated Sorghum Improvement Project

ALA American Library Association

AMD Atomic Minerals Division

ANGRAU Acharya NG Ranga Agricultural University

ANURAG Advanced Numerical Research & Analysis Group

ARC Advanced Research Centre

ARL – RLG Association of Research Libraries – Research Libraries Group

ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

ASAP Automatic Service Activation Protocol or Asynchronous Service Access Protocol ASAR Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar ASCI Administrative Staff College of India

ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange

ASL Advanced Systems Laboratory

ASLV Augmented Satellite Launch Vehicle

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ATM Anti-Tank Missile

AUTODIN Automatic Digital Network

BARC Bhabha Atomic Research Center

BCAB British Computer Association of the Blind BD Blu-ray Disc BDA Blu-ray Disc Association BDL Bharat Dynamics Limited BFSR Battle Field Surveillance Radar

BHEL Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited

BIB Business Information Bureau

BITNET Because Its Time Network

BPO Business Periodicals On disc

BSNL Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

BWR Boiling Water Reactors

C-DOT Centre for Development of Telematics

CALIS Computer Applications in Library and Information Services CARL Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries CAS Current Awareness Service

CCMB Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology

CD-ROM Compact Disc Read Only Memory

CD-R Compact Disc – Recordable CD-RW Compact Disc – Rewriteable CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics

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CGIAR Center of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research

CIPHER Competitive Intelligence Consulting Software

CISIET Central Institute of Small Industry Extension and Training

CLSIR Central Laboratories for Scientific and Industrial Research

CORD Centre on Rural Documentation

CSIR Council of Scientific & Industrial Research

DAE Department of Atomic Energy

DBMS Database Management System

DIRC Digital Information Resource Centre

DLRL or DERL Defence Electronics Research Laboratory

DMRL Defence Metallurgical Research Laboratory

DoS Department of Space

DRDL Defence Research and Development Laboratories

DRDO Defence Research and Development Organization

DRR Directorate of Rice Research

DST Department of Science and Technology

DVD Digital Versatile Disc

E-Books Electronic Books

E-Journals Electronic Journals

E-LIM Electronic Library and Information Management

E-Mail Electronic Mail

E-Publishing Electronic Publishing E-Resources Electronic Resources

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EBSCO Elton B. Stephens Company

ECIL Electronic Corporation of India Limited

EDGE Enterprise Development and Government Effectiveness

EIR Electronic Information Resources

EIS Electronic Information Service ERCE Electronics & Radar Development Establishment

ERDE Electronics and Radar Development Establishment

ETD Electronic Theses and Dissertations

EXIM Export and Import

FDTRC Food and Drugs Toxicology Research Centre

FICCI Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry

FTP File Transfer Protocol

GaAs Gallium Arsenide

GSLV Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle

GUI Graphical User Interface HAL Hindustan Aeronautics Limited HD High Definition video HTML Hyper Text Markup Language

HTTP Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

IAC Information Access Corporation

IARI Indian Agricultural Research Institute

IBID Indian Business Insight Database IBM International Business Machines

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ICAR Indian Council of Agricultural Research

ICMR Indian Council of Medical Research

ICOLC International Coalition of Library Consortia

ICT Information and Communication Technology

IGCAR Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

IGMDP Integrated Guided missile Development Programme

IICT Indian Institute of Chemical Technology

IIT Indian Institute of Technology

ILL Inter Library Loan

ILS Integrated Library Systems

IMAP Internet Message Access Protocol

IMC Institute of Management Committee

INIS International Nuclear Information Service

INSAT Indian National Satellite

IRBM Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile

IRS Indian Remote Sensing Satellite

ISA Indian Science Abstracts

ISRS Information Storage and Retrieval Systems ISP Internet Service Provider

IT Information Technology

JCR Journal Citation Reports

JSTOR Journal STORage

LALINC Louisiana Academic Library Information Network Consortium

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LAN Local Area Network

LCD Liquid Crystal Display

LIBSYS An Integrated Library System for Library Automation

LIC Library & Information Centres

LISA Library and Information Science Abstracts

LMFBR Liquid Metal Cooled Fast Breeder Reactors

LIMS Library and Information Management System

LWR Light Water Reactors

MANAGE National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management

MARC Machine Readable Catalogue

MB Megabytes

MCBN Network for Molecular and Cell Biology

MEDLINE Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online

MEMS Micro Electro Mechanical Systems

MENTARD Mental Retardation Bulletin Service

MiB Megabits

MIDHANI Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited

MIG Mikoyan Gurevich Fighter Aircraft

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT – CTSS Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Computer Training and Support Services

MTA Mail Transfer Agent MW Mega Watt MWe Mega Watt electrical

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NAARM National Academy of Agricultural Research Management

NAAB National Architectural Accrediting Board

NARS National Agricultural Research System

NCLAS National Centre for Laboratory Animal Sciences

NFC Nuclear Fuel Complex

NGRI National Geophysical Research Institute

NIFT National Institute of Fashion Technology

NIRD National Institute for Rural Development

NISIET National Institute of Small Industry Extension Training

NIMH National Institute for Mentally Handicapped

NIN National Institute of Nutrition

NISCAIR National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources

NNMB National Nutrition Monitoring Bureau

NPCIL Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited

NRCS National Research Centre for Sorghum

NRL Nutrition Research Laboratory

NRSA National Remote Sensing Agency

NSFNET National Science Foundation Network

OAI-PMH Open Archives Initiative - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

OCLC Online Computer Library Centre

OPAC Online Public Access Catalogue

PACE Processor for Aerodynamic Computations and Evaluation

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PC Personal Computer

PCR Production and Casting Report

PDA Personal Digital Assistant

PDF Portable Document Format

PHWR Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors

POM Project Officers Materials

PoP Point Of Presence

PROWESS Database of Indian Corporates

PSLV Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle

PSLV Polar Space Launch Vehicle

R&D Research & Development

RAC Research Advisory Committee

RCI Research Centre Imarat

RDBMS Relational Database Management System

RDI Rural Development Institutions

RFID Radio Frequency Identification System

RINL Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited

RJ 45 Registered Jack

RRL-H Regional Research Laboratory - Hyderabad

SAM Surface-to-Air Missile

SAU State Agricultural Universities

SBSC State Bank Staff College

SCOUG Southern California Online Users Group

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SDC Sample Data Collection

SDI Selective Dissemination of Information

SENDOC Small Enterprises National Documentation Centre

SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language SHAR Satish Dhawan Space Centre,

SIET Small Industry Extension Training

SITE Satellite Instructional Television Experiment

SLV Satellite Launch Vehicle

SME Small and Medium Enterprises

SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SNDMSG Send Message

SROSS Stretched Rohini Satellite Series

SSCI – JCR Social Science Citation Index – Journal Citation of Reports

STEP Satellite Telecommunication Experiment

STRC Scientific and Technical Resource Centre

TCP/IP Transfer Communication Protocol/Internet Protocol or

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol TIC Technical Information Centre TLSS Total Library Solutions Software TRI Toxics Release Inventory

TWAS Third World Academy of Sciences

UCE University of Central England

UDC Universal Decimal Classification

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UEP User Education Programme

UMI University Microfilms International

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UoP University of the Pacific

URL Universal Resource Locator

UT University of Texas

UUCP UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Protocol

VAR Vacuum Arc Remelt Furnace

VCR Video Cassette Recorder

VNET Corporate e-Mail system from IBM VSLI Very Large Scale Integration WAN Wide Area Network

WWW World Wide Web

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