.com

commercial; IT

.edu

education; IT

.gov

government; IT

.mil

military; IT

.net

network; IT

.org

organization; IT

2D

2 Dimensional; IT

A&HCI (AHCI)

Arts & Humanities Citation Index; documentation

A.M.

ante meridiem (before noon)

ABEL

'L' series of the Official Journal; EU

ABI/Inform

International Articles on Business and Management; documentation

AC/DC

Alternating Current/Direct Current; IT

ACC

Administrative Committee on Coordination; UN; USA

ACSAD

Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands; Syria

ad lib.

ad libitum (at pleasure)

ADB-AFRICA

African Development Bank; Ivory Coast

ADB-ASIA

Asian Development Bank; Philippines

ADN

Advanced Digital Network; IT

ADP

Agricultural Development Programme; EU

ADP

Automatic Data Processing; IT

ADRAO / WARDA

Association pour le Developpement de la Riziculture en Afrique de l'Ouest / West Africa Rice Development Association; Ivory Coast

AFNOR

Association Française de Normalisation (French Association of Standardization); France; documentation

AFTA

ASEAN Free Trade Agreement

AGEFT

Agricultural Electronic Fund Transfer; database; EU

AGINFO

A database of Common Agricultural Policy; EU

AGLINET

Agricultural Libraries Network; documentation

AgNIC

Agricultural Network Information Center (NAL); USA; documentation

AGREP

Agricultural Research Projects; database; EU

AGREX

Agricultural Guarantee Fund Expenditure; EU

AGRICOLA

Agricultural Online Access; USA; documentation

AGRIMED

Joint research programmes with focus on the Mediterranean regions; database; EU

AGRIS

International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology (FAO); documentation

AGROMET

A meteorological database (at CADDIA); EU

AGROVOC

Multilingual Agricultural Thesaurus (at AGRIS); documentation

AI

Artificial Intelligence; IT

AIBA

Agricultural Information Bank for Asia; Philippines

AIC

Agricultural Institute of Canada; Canada

AID

Agency for International Development; USA

ALEPH

Automated Library Expandable Program; documentation

ALGOL

Algorithm Language; IT

AM

Amplitude Modulation; IT

AMIS

Agricultural Markets Intelligence System; database; EU

AMS

Aggregate Measure of Support

ANA

Agricultural Numerical Annexes (at CADDIA); EU

ANOVA

Analysis of Variance

ANSI

American National Standards Institute; documentation

AOAD

Arab Organization for Agricultural Development; Sudan

APIMONDIA

International Federation of Beekeepers' Associations; Italy

ARCOME

database of organizations, researchers and publications in communications technology; EU

ARPANet

Advanced Research Projects Agency Network; USA

ARPS

Agricultural Report Production System (at CADDIA); EU

ASA

American Society of Agronomy; USA

ASA

American Standard Association; documentation

ASAS

American Society of Animal Science; USA

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange; IT

ASEAN

Association of South East Asian Nations

ASFA

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts; documentation

ASIL

Agricultural Statistics Information Links; documentation

ASIS

American Society for Information Science; documentation

ASLIB

Association for Information Management; United Kingdom; documentation

ASMODEE

database within Integrated Information Systems (SII) of the application of EC directives by Member States; EU

AUDIT

Automated Data Input Terminal; IT

AVMA

American Veterinary Medical Association; USA

BA

Baccalaureus Artium / Baccalaureus Artis (Bachelor of Arts)

BA

Biological Abstracts (BIOSIS); documentation

BABEL

Broadcasting Across the Barriers of European Languages; EU

BAP

Biotechnology Action Programme; EU

BAT

Best Available Technology Economically

BBS

Bulletin Board System; IT

BCIS

Biodiversity Conservation Information System

BEASTCD

Beast CD (at CABI); documentation

Binhex

Binary Hexadecimal; IT

Bit

Binary Digit; IT

BITNET

Because It's Time Network (or Because It's There Network); IT

BOP

Balance of Payments

Bps

Bits-per-Second; IT

BS

British Standards; documentation

BSc

Baccalaureus Scientiae / Baccalaureus Scientiarum (Bachelor of Science)

BSI

British Standards Institution; United Kingdom; documentation

BSS

British Standard Specification; documentation

BT

Broader Term; documentation

CA

Chemical Abstracts; documentation

CA

Computer Animation; IT

CAB

Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau; United Kingdom; documentation

CABI

CAB International; United Kingdom; documentation

CACTI

Common Agricultural Customs Transmission of Information (at CADDIA); EU

CADDIA

Cooperation in Automation of Data and Documentation for Imports/Exports and Agriculture; EU

CAGRIS

Caribbean Information System for the Agricultural Sciences; Trinidad and Tobago

CAL

Computer Assisted Learning; IT

CAMAR

Competition of Agriculture and Management of Agricultural Resources; EU

CAP

Common Agricultural Policy; EU

CARDI

Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute; Trinidad and Tobago

CARIS

Current Agricultural Research Information System (FAO); documentation

CAS

Current Awareness Service = Current Alerting Service; documentation

CC

Current Contents; documentation

CC

Carbon Copy; IT

CC-ABES

Current Contents - Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences; documentation

CC-PCES

Current Contents - Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences; documentation

CD

Compact Disk; IT

CDC

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; USA

CD-E

Compact Disk - Erasable; IT

CD-I

Compact Disk - Interactive; IT

CD-ROM

Compact Disk - Read Only Memory; IT

CD-ROM XA

CD-ROM eXtended Architecture; IT

CDSR

Centre de Developpement Sous-Regional - Afrique Centrale; Cameroun

CD-WO

Compact Disk - Write Once; IT

CEA

Controlled Environment Agriculture

CEA / ECA

Confederation Europeenne de l'Agriculture / European Confederation of Agriculture (at OECD); Belgium

CeBIT

welt Centrum Buero Information Telekommunikation; documentation

CELEX

Communitatis Europae Lex; database; EU

CEN

Comite Europeen de Normalisation / European Committee for Standardization; EU

CENL

Conference of European National Libraries; documentation

CERIF

Common European Research Project Information Format; EU

CERL

Consortium of European Research Libraries; documentation

CET

Common External Tariff; EU

cf.

confer (compare)

cf.

confer (compare)

CGA

Colour Graphics Adapter; IT

CGI

Common Gateway Interface; IT

CGIAR

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research; USA

CIAT

Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical; Colombia

CIF

Cost, Insurance, Freight

CIFOR

Centre for International Forestry Research; Indonesia

CIGR

International Commission of Agricultural Engineering; Germany

CIHEAM / ICAMAS

Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Mediterraneennes / International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies; France

CIMMYT

Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre); Mexico

CIP

Cataloguing In Publication; documentation

CIP / IPC

Centro Internacional de la Papa / International Potato Center; Peru

CIRAD

Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement (specializing in agricultural research for the tropics and subtropics of the world); France

CIRCOM

International Research Centre on Rural Cooperatives Communities; Israel

CIRVAL

Centre International de Ressources et de Valorisation de l'Information dans les Filičres Laitičres des Petits Ruminants (International resource center for the valorization of information in the small ruminant dairy sector); France

CIS

Commonwealth of Independent States; Russia

CJUS

case law and court judgments within CELEX; database; EU

COBISS

Cooperative Online Bibliographic System & Services; Slovenia; documentation

COBOL

Common Business Orientated Language; IT

COMECON (CMEA) / SEV

Council for Mutual Economic Assistance / Sovet Ekonomicheskoi Vzaimopomoshchi (disbanded)

COMEXT

external trade statistics in Eurostat; database; EU

COPERNICUS

CPI

Consumer Price Index

CPU

Capacity Utilisation

CRDI / IDRC

Centre de Recherches pour le Developpement International / International Development Research Centre

CRIS

Current Research Information System; USA; documentation

CRONOS

EUROSTAT statistical database; EU

CSA

Canadian Standards Association; documentation

CSV

Comma Separated Values; documentation

CUBE

Concertation Unit for Biotechnology in Europe; EU

CV

Curriculum Vitae

DADIS (DAD-IS)

Domestic Animal Diversity Information System; documentation

DAEMON

Disk and Execution Monitor (Unix); IT

DAINET

Deutsches Agrarinformationsnetz (German Agricultural Information Network); Germany; documentation

DBMS

Database Management System; IT

DD

Document Delivery; documentation

DD

Double Density; IT

DDC

Dewey Decimal Classification; documentation

DEC

Digital Equipment Corporation; IT

DECNET

Digital Equipment Corporation Network; IT

DELTA

Developing European Learning through Technological Advance; EU

DEMETER

Digital Electronic Mapping of European Territory; EU

DEP

European Depository Library; EU

DIMDI

Deutsches Institut fuer Medizinische Dokumentation und Information (German Institute for Medical Documentation and Information); Germany; documentation

DIN

Deutsche Industrie Norm(en), Deutsches Institut fuer Normung (German Institute for Standardization); Germany; documentation

DIS

Draft International Standard (at ISO); documentation

DNS

Domain Naming Service/System/Server; IT

DOCDED

progamme of agricultural infrastructural activities (at CADDIA); EU

DOCDED

progamme of agricultural infrastructural activities; EU

DOS

Disk Operating System; IT

DP

Data Processing; IT

DS

Document Supply; documentation

DSL

Digital Subscriber Line; IT

DVD

Digital Video Disk; IT

e.g.

exempli gratia (for example)

EAGGF

European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund; EU

EBRD

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development; EU

EB-ROM

Electronic Book - Read Only Memory; IT

EBSCO

Elton B. Stephens Company (publisher); documentation

EC

European Community (European Communities)

ECA

Economic Commission for Africa; UN; Ethiopia

ECA / CEA

European Confederation of Agriculture / Confederation Europeenne de l'Agriculture (at OECD); Belgium

ECDIN

Environmental Chemicals Data and Information Network; database; EU

ECE

Economic Commission for Europe; UN; Switzerland

ECLAC

Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean; Chile

ECLAIR

European Collaborative Linkage of Agriculture and Industry through Research; EU

ECLAS

European Commissioners' Library Automated System; database; EU

ECU

European Currency Unit; EU

EDCs

European Documentation Centres; EU

EDD

Electronic Document Delivery; documentation

EDI

Electronic Data Interchange; EU

EDP

Electronic Data Processing; IT

EEC

European Economic Community

EEPROM

Electronical Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory; IT

EFICS

European Forestry Information and Communication System; EU

EFTA

European Free Trade Association; Switzerland

EGA

Enhanced Graphics Adapter (predecessor of VGA); IT

EIB

European Investment Bank; EU

eIFL Direct

electronic Information For Libraries Direct; documentation

EIS

Electronic Information Services; documentation

ELFIS (FIS-ELF)

Fachinformationssystem Ernaehrung, Land- und Forstwirtschaft (Information System on Food, Agriculture and Forestry); Germany; documentation

EMBASE

Excerpta Medica Database; documentation

EMPRES

Emergency Prevention System (for transboundary animal and plant pests and diseases); documentation

EMS

Equivalent Measure of Support

EMS

European Monetary System; EU

EMU

Economic and Monetary Union; EU

ENEX

environmental research; database; EU

ENGUIDE

bibliographic information on the environment; database; EU

ENLEX

environmental legislation and law; database; EU

ENV-SCI

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management; documentation

EOB

End Of Block; IT

EOF

End Of File; IT

EOM

End Of Message; IT

EP

European Parliament; EU

EPROM

Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory; IT

ERASMUS

European Community Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students; EU

ERL

Electronic Reference Library; IT

ERM

Exchange Rate Mechanism; EU

EROM

Erasable Read Only Memory; IT

ESCAP

Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific; Thailand

ESCWA

Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia; Jordan

ESN

Electronic Serial Number; IT

ESPRIT

European Strategic Programme for Research and Development in Information Technology; EU

et. al.

et alii (aliae, alia) (and others)

etc.

et cetera (and the rest, and so forth)

ETSI

European Telecommunications Standards Institute; EU

EU

European Union

EURATOM

European Atomic Energy Community; EU

EUREKA

European Research Coordination Agency.; EU

EUROCARE

European Conservation and Restoration; EU

EuroDicAutom

terminology database for the transfer of information between European languages; EU

EUROFARM

farm structures; database; EU

EUROLEX

European Law Centre, database; EU

Euronet DIANE

Direct Information Access Network for Europe; EU

EUROSTAT

Statistical Office of the European Communities; EU

EXMAN

Experimental Manipulation of Forest Ecosystems in Europe; EU

FA

forecasting database of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund; EU

FADN

Farm Accounting Data Network; database; EU

FAO

Food and Agricultural Organization; UN; Italy

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions; IT

FAR

Fisheries and Aquaculture Research; EU

FAST

Forecasting and Assessment in the Field of Science and Technology; EU

FAT

File Allocation Table; IT

FDA

Food and Drug Administration; USA

FDDI

Fiber Distributed Data Interface; IT

FHN

Food and Human Nutrition (at AGRIS)

FID / IFID

Federation Internationale d'Information et de Documentation / International Federation for Information and Documentation); documentation

FIS-ELF (ELFIS)

Fachinformationssystem Ernaehrung, Land- und Forstwirtschaft (Information System on Food, Agriculture and Forestry); Germany; documentation

FIVIMS

Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems; documentation

FLAIR

Food-Linked Agricultural Industrial Research; EU

FM

Frequency Modulation; IT

FOB

Free on Board

FORTRAN

Formula Translation; IT

FSTA

Food Science and Technology Abstracts; documentation

FTP

File Transfer Protocol; IT

G7 (G-7)

Group of Seven Nations (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States)

G8 (G-8)

G7 + Russia

GATT

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

GDP

Gross Domestic Product

GEOS

Graphic Environment Operating System; IT

GIEWS / SMIAR

Global Information and Early Warning System (on food and agriculture) / Systčme Mondial d'Information et d'Alerte Rapide sur l'Alimentation et l'Agriculture; documentation

GIF

Graphic Interchange Format; IT

GILC

Global Internet Liberty Campaign; IT

GINTRAP

European Guide to Industrial Trading Regulations and Practice; database; EU

GIS

Geographical Information System; IT

GM

Genetically Modified

GMO

Genetically Modified Organism

GNP

Gross National Product

GPS

Global Positioning System

GRAS

Generally Recognized As Safe

GSM

Global System for Mobiles; IT

GTOS

Global Terrestrial Observing System; documentation

HD

High Density; IT

HDD

Hard Disk Drive; IT

Hg

hectogramme (100 grammes); documentation

Hg/Ha

hectogramme (100 grammes) per hectare; documentation

HI-FI

High Fidelity; IT

HTML

HyperText Markup Language; IT

HTTP

HyperText Transfer Protocol; IT

HTTPD

HTTP Daemon; IT

i.e.

id est (that is)

I/O

Input/Output; IT

IAAE

International Association of Agricultural Economics

IAALD

International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (International Association of Agricultural Librarians and Documentalists); documentation

IAC

International Agricultural Center; Netherlands

IACO

Inter-African Coffee Organization; Ivory Coast

IADS

International Agricultural Development Service; USA

IAEA

International Atomic Energy Agency; UN; Austria

IAFP

International Association for Food Protection

IATRC

International Agricultural Trade Research Consortium; USA

IATUL

International Association of Technological University Libraries; documentation

IBE

International Bureau of Education; UN; Switzerland

ibid

ibidem (in the same place)

IBM

International Business Machines; I/T

IBRD

International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank); UN; USA

ICAMAS / CIHEAM

International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies / Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Mediterraneennes; France

ICARDA

International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas; Syria

ICASALS

International Center for Arid and Semi-Arid Land Studies; USA

ICC

International Computing Centre; UN; Switzerland

ICCO

International Cocoa Organisation; United Kingdom

ICIMOD

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development; Nepal

ICIPE

International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology; Kenya

ICJ

International Court of Justice; UN; Netherlands

ICLARM

International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (World Fish Center); Malaysia

ICM

Integrated Crop Management

ICO-COFFEE

International Coffee Organisation; United Kingdom

ICONDA

International Construction Database; documentation

ICPs

Inter-University Cooperation Programmes; EU

ICRAF

International Centre for Research in Agroforestry; Kenya

ICRISAT

International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics; India

ICS

International Centre for Science and High Technology; Italy

ICSTI / MCNTI

International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information / Mezhdunarodnyi Centr Nauchnoi i Tehnicheskoj Informacii; Russia

ICSU

International Council of Scientific Unions; France

ID

Identifier (Identification); IT

IDES

Interactive Data Entry System (program for transmission of agricultural data between the Commission and the Member States, at CADDIA); EU

IDRC / CRDI

International Development Research Centre / Centre de Recherches pour le Developpement International; Canada

IF

Impact Factor; documentation

IFAD

International Fund for Agricultural Development; UN

IFAP

International Federation of Agricultural producers; France

IFC

International Finance Corporation (at World Bank)

IFDC

International Fertilizer Development Center; USA

IFID / FID

International Federation for Information and Documentation / Federation Internationale d'Information et de Documentation; documentation

IFIS

International Food Information Service; documentation

IFLA

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions; documentation

IFPRI

Internationl Food Policy Research; USA

IGA

International Grains Agreement

IIAT / IITA

Institut International d'Agriculture Tropicale / International Institute of Tropical Agriculture; Nigeria

IIC

International Irrigation Center; USA

IICA

Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture; Costa Rica

IIMI

International Irrigation Management Institute; Sri Lanka

IITA

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture; United Kingdom

IITA / IIAT

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture / Institut International d'Agriculture Tropicale; Nigeria

ILCA

International Livestock Center for Africa; Ethiopia

ILL

InterLibrary Loan; documentation

ILO

International Labour Organization; UN; Switzerland

ILRAD

International Laboratory for Research on Animal Diseases; USA

ILRI

International Livestock Research Institute; Ethiopia

IM

Information Management; documentation

IMF

International Monetary Fund; UN; USA

IMO

International Maritime Organization; UN; United Kingdom

INDOC

Information, Documentation, Communication; documentation

INFORTERM

International Information Center for Terminology (UNESCO); France

INGA

International Network on Genetics in Aquaculture; Malaysia

INIS

International Nuclear Information System; Austria

INPhO

Information Network on Post-harvest Operations; documentation

INRA

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (Institute for Agronomy Research); France

INSPEC

Information Services in Physics, Electrotechnology, Computers and Control (Physics, Electronics and Computing); documentation

IP

Internet Protocol; IT

IPC

International Patent Classification; documentation

IPCC

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

IPGRI (IPGR)

International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (International Board for Planet Genetic Resources); Italy

IPI

Industrial Production Index

IPM

Integrated Pest Management

IR

Information Retrieval; documentation

IRC

Internet Relay Chat (Internet Related Chat); IT

IRENE

Integrated Modelling of Renewable Natural Resources; EU

IRM

Integrated Resource Management

IRRI

International Rice Research Institute; Philippines

IS

International Standard; documentation

ISA

International Sugar Agreement

ISAAA

International Service for the Acquisition of Agricultural Biotechnology

ISBC

Index to Scientific Book Contents; documentation

ISBN

International Standard Book Number; documentation

ISCC

Information Systems Coordination Committee; UN; Switzerland

ISDN

Integrated Services Digital Network; IT

ISHS

International Society for Horticultural Science; Belgium

ISI

Institute for Scientific Information; USA; documentation

ISIC

International Standard Industrial Classification; documentation

ISIS

Integrated Set of Information Systems (UNESCO)

ISIS

Integrated Systems for/and Information Services (NAL); documentation

ISMAP

Integrated System for the Management of Agricultural Production (at EUREKA); EU

ISNAR

International Service for National Agricultural Research; Netherlands

ISO

International Organization for Standardization; Switzerland; documentation

ISOTC

ISO Technical Committee; documentation

ISP

Internet Service Provider; IT

ISR

Index to Scientific Reviews; documentation

ISRTP

International Society of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology; USA

ISSN

International Standard Serial Number; documentation

ISTP

Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings; documentation

IT

Information Technologies

ITC

International Trade Centre (at UNCTAD); UN; Switzerland

ITS

Info Technology Supply; documentation

ITTO

International Tropical Timber Organization; Japan

ITU

International Telecommunication Union; UN; Switzerland

IUCN

World Conservation Union (International Union for Conservation of Natural and Natural Resources); Switzerland

IUFRO

International Union of Forest Research Organizations; Austria

IVA

Impuesto sobre el Valor Anadido (VAT = Value-Added Tax)

IVA

Imposta sul Valore Aggiunto (VAT = Value-Added Tax)

IWA

International Wheat Agreement

IWMI

International Water Management Institute; Sri Lanka

IWS

International Wool Secretariat; USA

IWTO

International Wool Textile Organisation; Belgium

JCR

Journal Citation Reports; documentation

JIAMCATT

Joint Inter-Agency Meeting on Computer-assisted Translation and Terminology; UN; Switzerland

JIS

Japanese Industrial Standards; documentation

JPEG (.JPG)

Joint Photographic Experts Group; IT

JUSLETTER

records and weekly summaries of decisions taken by EC institutions; database; EU

Kb

Kilobit; IT

KB

Kilobyte; IT

KERMIT

Kl-10 Error-free Reciprocal Micro Interconnect over Tty lines; IT

KIT

Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen (Royal Tropical Institute); Netherlands

KWAC

Key Word And Context; documentation

KWIC

Key Word In Context; documentation

KWIT

Key Word In Title; documentation

KWOC

Key Word Out of Context; documentation

KWOT

Key Word Out of Title; documentation

LAN

Local Area Network; IT

LASER

Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation; IT

LAT

Learning by Advanced Telecommunications; EU

LC

Library of Congress; USA

LCD

Liquid Crystal Display; IT

LCSH

Library of Congress Subject Headings; documentation

LEAST

Learning Systems Standardization; EU

LEI

Leading Economic Indicators

LEONARDO DA VINCI 

European action programme in vocational training policy; EU

LIS

Library and Information Science; documentation

LISA

Library and Information Science Abstracts; documentation

LMO

Living Modified Organisms

LOCIS

Library of Congress Information System; documentation

LP

Line Printer; IT

LPD

Line Printer Daemon; IT

LPR

Line Printer Requester; IT

MA

Magister Artium / Magister Artis (Master of Arts)

MARC

Machine-Readable Cataloging; documentation

MBA

Master of Business Administration

MCAs

Monetary Compensation Amounts; EU

MCNTI / ICSTI

Mezhdunarodnyi Centr Nauchnoi i Tehnicheskoj Informacii / International Centre for Scientific and Technical Information; Russia

MD

Medicinae Doctor (Doctor of Medicine) 

MEDLARS

Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System; documentation

MEDLINE

MEDLARS Online; documentation

MEPs

Members of the European Parliament; EU

MERCOSUR

Mercado Comun del Cono Sur (Southern Cone Common Market); Uruguay

MESH

Medical Subject Headings; documentation

MFN

Most-Favoured Nation

MGQ

Maximum Guarantee Quality (statistics on tobacco production); EU

MIDAS

Management Information Dissemination Administrative System; database; EU

MIGA

Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (at World Bank); UN; USA

MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions; IT

MINE

Microbial Information Network Europe; EU

MIRIAM

Model Scheme for Information on Rural Development Initiatives and Agree Markets; EU

Modem

Modulator, Demodulator; IT

MPEG

Motion Picture Experts Group; IT

MS

MicroSoft; IT

MSc

Magister Scientiae / Magister Scientiarum (Master of Science)

MS-DOS

Microsoft Disk Operating System; IT

MSN

Microsoft Support Network; IT

MSN

Multiple Subscriber Numbering; IT

Mt

metric tons; documentation

MTO

Multilateral Trade Organization (=WTO)

MULPOC

Centre multinational de Programmation et d'Execution des Projets pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest (Multinational Programming and Operational Centre); Niger

MUSE

Multi-User Simulated Environment; IT

MUX

Multiplexer; IT

MWSt

Mehrwertsteuer (VAT = Value-Added Tax)

N.B.

nota bene (note well)

NAFTA

North American Free Trade Agreement

NAL

National Agricultural Library; USA

NAS

National Academy of Sciences; USA

NASDA

National Association of State Departments of Agriculture; USA

NASDAQ

National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System

NASS

National Agricultural Statistics Service; USA

NASULGC

National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges; USA

NEC

Nippon Electronic Corporation; IT

NETT

Network for Environmental Technology Transfer; EU

NF

Normes Françaises; documentation

NGO

Nongovernmental Organization

NIC

Networked Information Center; IT

NLM

National Library of Medicine; USA

NNTP

Network News Transport Protocol; IT

NT

Narrower Term; documentation

NYSE

New York Stock Exchange; USA

OAS / OEA

Organization of American States / Organizacion de los Estados Americanos; Uruguay

OCHA

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs; Switzerland

OCLC

Online Computer Library Center; documentation

OEA / OAS

Organizacion de los Estados Americanos / Organization of American States; Uruguay

OECD

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development; France

OJ

Official Journal; EU

ON

Oestereichisches Normungsinstitut (Austrian Standards Institute); Austria; documentation

op. cit.

opere citato (in the work mentioned)

OPAC

Online Public Access Catalog; documentation

OPEC

Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries; Austria

OS

Operating System; IT

OSA

Open Systems Architecture; IT

P.M.

post meridiem (after noon)

PAD

Packet Assembler/Disassembler; IT

PAIS

Public Affairs Information Service (at OCLC); documentation

PAL

Phase Alternate Line; IT

PAP

Prices and Agricultural Products; EU

PARDOC

internal database of the European Parliament; EU

PC

Personal Computer; IT

PDF

Portable Document Format; IT

PEGASE

library catalogue database of the European Parliament; EU

PGRFA

Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture; documentation

PHARE

Poland and Hungary Assistance for Economic Restructuring Programme (later extended to other Eastern European states).; EU

PhD

Philosophiae Doctor

PIC

Prior Informed Consent (hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade); documentation

PIN

Personal Identification Number; IT

POP3

Post Office Protocol 3; IT

PR

Pattern Recognition; IT

PROLOG

Programming in Logic; IT

PROMAN

management of EC funded contracts for energy projects; database; EU

PS/2

Personal System/2; IT

PUDOC

Centre for Agricultural Publishing and Documentation (Centrum voor Landbouwpublikaties en Landbouwdocumentatie); Netherlands; documentation

Q&A

Question & Answers; IT

q.v.

quod vide (which see)

QA

Quality Assurance

QC

Quality Control

R&D

Research and Development

RAM

Random Access Memory; IT

R-A-P (RAP)

Request-A-Print; documentation

RDA

Recommended Dietary Allowance

RDI

Research, Development, and Innovation

REM

Radioactive Environmental Monitoring; database; EU

RESEAU

database and monitoring network on environmental, agricultural and urban development; EU

RFA

Request For Assistance; documentation

RFC

Request For Comments; IT

ROM

Read-Only Memory; IT

RT

Related Term; documentation

RTF

Rich Text Format; IT

SACCAR

South African Centre for Cooperation in Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Training; Botswana

SARD

Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development

SCENT

System Customs Enforcement Network; EU

SCI

Science Citation Index; documentation

SDI

Selective Dissemination of Information; documentation

SEAMEO

Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization; Thailand

SEARCA

South-East Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture; Philippines

SECAM

Sequentiel Couleur a Memoire (Sequential Colour and Memory); IT

SEV / COMECON (CMEA)

Sovet Ekonomicheskoi Vzaimopomoshchi / Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (disbanded)

SIDS

Small Island Developing States; documentation

SIENA

external trade statistics; database; EU

SIRENE

energy database; EU

Six

the original six members of the EC

SLIP

Serial Line Internet Protocol; IT

SMDS

Switched Multimegabit Data Service; IT

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol; IT

SNMP

Simple Network Management Protocol; IT

SPC

South Pacific Commission; Fiji

SPEL

sectoral production and income model for agriculture (at CADDIA)

SPIRS

Silvet Platter Information Retrieval System; documentation

SPS

Sanitary and Phytosanitary (measures)

SQL

Structured Query Language; IT

SSCI

Social Sciences Citation Index; documentation

SSG

Special Safeguard

STI

Scientific and Technical Information; documentation

TCP/IP

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol; IT

TECNET

information technology projects relating to vocational training; database; EU

TELNET

Telephone Network; IT

TEMPUS

Trans-European Mobility Scheme for University Students; EU

TQ

Tariff-Quota

TREECD

Tree CD (at CABI); documentation

TRQ

Tariff-Rate-Quota

TVA

Taxe sur la Valeur Ajoutee (VAT = Value-Added Tax)

Twelve

membership of the EC after 1986; EU

UDC

Universal Decimal Classification; documentation

UDP

User Datagram Protocol; IT

UETP

University Enterprise Training Partnerships; EU

UF

Use For; documentation

UHF

Ultra High Frequency; IT

UKW

Ultrakurzwelle (Ultra Short Waves); IT

UMRs

Usual Marketing Requirements

UN

United Nations

UNCCD

UN Convention to Combat Desertification; Switzerland

UNCHS

UN Centre for Human Settlements; Kenya

UNCITRAL

UN Commission on International Trade Law; Austria

UNCTAD

UN Conference on Trade and Development; Switzerland

UNDCP

UN International Drug Control Programme; Austria

UNDP

UN Development Programme; USA

UNEP

UN Environment Programme; Kenya

UNESCO

UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization; France

UNFCCC

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; Germany

UNFPA

UN Population Fund; USA

UNHCHR

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Switzerland

UNHCR

UN High Commissioner for Refugees; Switzerland

UNICEF

UN Childrens Fund; USA

UNICRI

UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute; UN; Italy

UNIDO

UN Industrial Development Organization; Austria

UNIFEM

UN Development Fund for Women; USA

UNIMARC

Universal MARC; documentation

UNIS

UN International School; USA

UNITAR

UN Institute for Training and Research; Switzerland

UNOG

UN Office at Geneva; Switzerland

UNOPS

UN Office for Project Services; USA

UNOV

UN Office at Vienna; Austria

UNRiSD

UN Research Institute for Social Development; Switzerland

UNU

UN University; Japan

UPU

Universal Postal Union; UN; Switzerland

UR

Uruguay Round

URL

Uniform Resource Locator; IT

USAID

U.S. Agency for International Development; USA

USDA

U.S. Department of Agriculture; USA

USENET

Users' Network; IT

UUENCODE

Unix to Unix Encoding; IT

VAT

Value-Added Tax

VAX

Virtual Address Extension; IT

VERONICA

Very Easy Rodent Oriented Net-wide Index to Computerized Archives; IT

VGA

Video Graphics Array; IT

VHF

Very High Frequency; IT

VHS

Video Home System; IT

VINITI

Vserossiyskiy Institut Nauchnoi i Tehnicheskoy Informacii (Institute of Scientific and Technical Information); Russia; documentation

VMS

Virtual Memory (operating) System; IT

vs.

versus (against)

VT

Virtual Terminal; IT

WAERSA

World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts (CABI); United Kingdom; documentation

WAICENT

World Agricultural Information Centre; FAO; documentation

WAIS

Wide Area Information Servers; IT

WAN

Wide Area Network; IT

WARDA / ADRAO

West Africa Rice Development Association /Association pour le Developpement de la Riziculture en Afrique de l'Ouest; Ivory Coast

WCMC

World Conservation Monitoring Centre; UNEP; United Kingdom

WCPA

World Commission on Protected Areas; Switzerland

WebSPIRS

SPIRS (WWW application); documentation

WFP

World Food Program; UN

WHO

World Health Organization; UN; Switzerland

WIEWS

World Information and Early Warning System on PGRFA; documentation

WinSPIRS

SPIRS (Windows application); documentation

WIPO

World Intellectual Property Organization; UN; Switzerland

WLAN

Wireless LAN; IT

WMO

World Meteorological Organization; UN; Switzerland

WORM

Write-Once Read-Many; IT

WPI

Wholesale Price Index

WTO

World Trade Organization; UN; Switzerland

WWF

World Wildlife Fund; Switzerland

WWW

World Wide Web; IT

WYSBYGI

What You See Before You Get Implemented; IT

WYSIWIS

What You See Is What I See; IT

WYSIWYG

What You See Is What You Get; IT

Y2K

Year 2 Kilo; IT

YAHOO

Yet Another Heirarchical Officious Oracle; IT

ZADI

Zentralstelle fuer Agrardokumentation und -information (Centre for Agricultural Documentation and Information); documentation