| ACM | Association for Computing Machinery |
| ARL | Association of Research Libraries |
| BLEND | BLEND (Birmingham and Loughborough Electronic Networking Development) |
| CASI | Center for Aerospace Information |
| CMC | computer-mediated communication |
| CSTB | Computer Science and Telecommunications Board |
| DMCA | Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 |
| FTP | file transfer protocol |
| IATUL | International Association of Technological University Libraries |
| ICSU | International Council of Scientific Unions |
| IP | Internet protocol |
| ISI | Institute for Scientific Information |
| JSTOR | Journal Storage (the Scholarly Journal Archive) |
| LANL | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| OCLC | Online Computer Library Center |
| PEAK | Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge |
| SLAC | Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory |
| STM | science, technology, and medicine |
| UCC | Uniform Commercial Code |
| UCITA | Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act |
| UNESCO | United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| URL | uniform resource locator |
| WIPO | World Intellectual Property Organization |
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