List of abbreviations

AASHE Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education

AAU Association of American Universities

ACGS American Council of Graduate Schools

ACRL Association of College and Research Libraries

ACS American Chemical Society

ALA American Library Association

ALCTS Association for Library Collections and Technical Services

ANU Australian National University

ARC Australian Research Council

ARL Association of Research Libraries

AsiaJOL Asian Journals Online

AWS Amazon Web Services

BDTD Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações

BSC Balanced Scorecard

C&RL College & Research Libraries

CARL Canadian Association of Research Libraries

CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research

CIHR Canadian Institutes of Health Research

CNI Coalition of Networked Information

COAPI Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions

CRO CSU Research Output

CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas

CSU Charles Sturt University (Australia)

CUNY City University of New York

CV curriculum vitae

DASH Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard

DC Digital Commons

dLIST Digital Library of Information Sciences

DMP Data Management Plan

DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals

DOE Department of Energy

DRU doctoral/research universities

EAD encoded archival description

EBSCO Academic eBook Subscriptions

ECS (School of) Electronics and Computer Science (Southampton)

EIFL Electronic Information for Libraries

E-LIS E-prints in Library and Information Science

ERA Excellence in Research for Australia

ERIC Education Resources Information Center

ETD electronic theses and dissertations

FAST Faceted Application of Subject Terminology

FASTR Fair Access to Science and Technology Research

FIPSE Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education

FRPAA Federal Research Public Access Act

FTE full-time equivalent

FTP file transfer protocol

GSLIS Graduate School of Library and Information Science (Simmons College)

GWLA Greater Western Library Alliance

HEP high-energy physics

HP Hewlett-Packard

ICAR Indian Council of Agricultural Research

ICOLC International Coalition of Library Consortia

IES Institute of Education Sciences

IET Institution of Engineering and Technology

ILL interlibrary loan

ILR (School of) Industrial and Labour Relations (Cornell University)

IMLS Institute of Museum and Library Services

INASP International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications

IR institutional repository

ISI Institute for Scientific Information

ISO International Organization for Standardization

ITS Institute of Transportation Studies

JCR journal citation report

JDF journal download factor

JIF Journal Impact Factor

JISC Joint Information Systems Committee

JUF journal usage factor

KU University of Kansas

LC Library of Congress

LCSH Library of Congress Subject Headings

LOCKSS "lots of copies keep stuff safe"

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology

NARS National Agricultural Research System (India)

NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCSU North Carolina State University

NDLTD Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

NEH National Endowment for the Humanities

NGO non-governmental organization

NIH National Institutes of Health

NSF National Science Foundation

OA open access

OAI Open Archives Initiative

OAI-PMH Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

OAPEN Open Access Publishing in European Networks

OASIS Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook

OATP Open Access Textbook Project

OCLC Online Computer Library Center

OCR optical character recognition

OCS Open Conference Systems

OERs open educational resources

OJS Open Journal Systems

OPAC online public access catalog

OpenAIREplus Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe

OpenDOAR Open Directory of Open Access Repositories

ORBi Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Liège)

ORCID Open Researcher and Contributor ID

OSI Open Society Institute

OSTP Office of Science and Technology Policy

OSU Oregon State University

PDF portable document format

PKP Public Knowledge Project

PLoS Public Library of Science

PMH protocols for meta-harvesting

PROL Political Research Online

RePEc Research Papers in Economics

RIT Rochester Institute of Technology

ROAR Registry of Open Access Repositories

ROARMAP Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies

RU/H university with high research activity

RU/VH university with very high research activity

SCOAP3 Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics

SEO search engine optimization

SMU Singapore Management University

SOAP Study of Open Access Project

SPARC Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

SPR Scholarly Publications Repository

SSRN Social Science Research Network

STARS Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating SystemT

STEM science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

STM science, technology, and medicine

SUNY State University of New York

UA University of Arizona

UCAR University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

UM University of Michigan

UMB University of Maryland, Baltimore

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural...