ADONIS
A system for storing the images of biomedical journals on
CD-ROM.
ADSET
Association for Database Services
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ATM
Automatic Till Machine
BB
Bulletin board
BIC
Book Industry Communication
BLRDD
British Library Research & Development Department
BUBL
Bulletin Board for Libraries
CARL
Colorado Association of Research Libraries
CAS-IAS
Current Awareness Services and Individual Article Supply
CD-I
Compact disc interactive
CD-ROM
Compact disc read only memory
CDTV
Commodore Dynamic Total Vision
CEEFAX
BBC Teletext service
CITED
Copyright in Transmitted Electronic Documents (a copyright
management system)
CLA
Copyright Licensing Agency
CRDA
Computer readable data archive
DILS
Department of information and library studies
ESRC
Economic and Social Research Council
GUI
Graphical user interface
HEFC
Higher Education Funding Council
IMPACT
Information Market Policy Actions (an EC programme)
ISBD (CF)
International Standard Bibliographic Description
ISO
International Standards Organisation
JANet
Joint Academic Network
JCC
Joint Consultative Council
LA
Library Association
LCD
Liquid crystal display
LIS
Library and information science (or services)
NFAIS
National Federation of Abstracting and Indexing Services
NISS
National Information Services and Systems
NLM
National Library of Medicine
NII
National Information Infrastructure
OCR
Optical Character Recognition
PC
Personal computer
ROM
Read only memory
SGML
Standard Generalised Markup Language
SPAG
Standards and Practices Action Group
SuperJANET
The upgraded JANET network, with increased bandwidth.
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TFPL
Task Force Pro Libra (an information services supplier)
WAIS
Wide Area Information Server
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