1B1U One Book, One User

1B3U One Book, Three Users

1BUU One Book, Unlimited Users

AAF Annual Access Fee

ACF Archive Capital Fee

ALA American Library Association

API Application Programming Interface

ARK Archival Resource Key

APC Article Processing Charge

ARL Association of Research Libraries

BMCC Borough of Manhattan Community College

CD Compact Disc

CDL California Digital Library

CICF Central Indiana Community Foundation

CILIP Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

COUNTER Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources

CRL Centre for Research Libraries

CUNY City University of New York

CVM Contingent Valuation Method

DANS Data Archiving and Networked Services Institute

DEFF Denmark’s Electronic Research Library

DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

DiCoMo Digitization Costs Model

DIY Do It Yourself

DL(s) Digital Library (Libraries)

DOI Digital Object Identifier

DRM Digital Rights Management

EBL Electronic Book Library

EDS EBSCO Discovery Service

ECM EBSCOhost Collection Management Tool

ESPIDA An Effective Strategic Model for the Preservation and Disposal of Institutional Digital Assets

FTE Full Time Equivalent

FRPAA Federal Research Public Access Act

HEI Higher Education Institution

HERON Higher Education Resources ON-demand

HESA Higher Education Statistical Agency

HoDs Heads of Departments

ICT Information and Communications Technology

IDF International DOI Federation

IFLA International Federation of Library Associations

IMLS Institute of Museum and Library Services

iRODS The integrated Rule-Oriented Data System

ISO International Organization for Standardization

IT Information Technology

IUPUI Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

JHUP Johns Hopkins University Press

JISC Joint Information Systems Committee

JSTOR Journal Storage

KNAW Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

KRDS Keeping Research Data Safe

LIFE Lifecycle Information for E-Literature

LOCKSS Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe

LSRNs LifeScience Resource Names

LSTA Library Services Technology Act

MARC Machine Readable Cataloging

MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MOU Memorandum of Understanding

MVP Minimum Viable Product

NARCIS National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System

NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research

NDIIPP National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program

NIH National Institutes of Health

NLP National Licensing Programme

NWO Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research

OA Open Access

OAI-PMH Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

OAIS Open Archival Information System

OAPEN Open Access Publishing in European Networks

OCR Optical Character Recognition

OpenDOAR Directory of Open Access Repositories

OSTI Office of Strategic and Technical Information

OTPS Other Than Personnel Spending

PDA Patron Driven Acquisition

PDF Portable Document Format

PDL Patron Driven Lease

PEAK Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge

R&D Research and Development

RCI Research Cyberinfrastructure

RFP Request for Proposal

ROI Return on Investment

SCONUL Society of College, National and University Libraries

SDSC San Diego Supercomputer Center

SHEDL Scottish Higher Education Digital Library

SIO Scripps Institution of Oceanography

SLA Service Level Agreement

SPARC Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition

STM Science, Technology, Medicine

TB Terabyte(s)

TEACH Technology, Education and Copyright Harmonization

TOC Table of Contents

UC University of California

UCL University College London

UI User Interface

UMIACS University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies

UPCC University Press Content Consortia

UPeC Association of American University Presses

XML Extensible Markup Language