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| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| AAC | : | Advanced Audio Coding |
| AACOBS | : | Australian Advisory Council on Bibliographical Services |
| AACR | : | Anglo American Cataloguing Rule |
| AAL | : | Association of Assistant Librarian |
| AALL | : | The American Association of Law Libraries |
| AALS | : | The Association of American Library School |
| AAMBP | : | Association of American Medical Book Publishers |
| AAMC | : | Association of American Medical Colleges |
| AATA | : | Art and Archaeology Technical Abstracts |
| AAUP | : | Association of American University Press |
| ABC | : | Abridged Bibliographic Classification |
| ABI | : | Application Binary Interface |
| ABLISS | : | Association of British Library and Information science schools |
| ABN | : | Australian Bibliographic Network |
| ACCOPI | : | Access Control and Copyright Protection for Images |
| ACE | : | Automatic Computing Engine |
| ACM | : | Association for Computing Machinery |
| ACPM | : | Australian Common Practice Manual |
| ACQNET | : | Acquisitions Librarians Electronic Network |
| ACRL | : | Association of College and Research Libraries |
| ACURIL | : | Association of Caribbean University, Research and Institutional Libraries |
| ADI | : | American Documentation Institute |
| ADP | : | Automated Data Processing |
| AFAS | : | French Association for Sound Archives |
| AFLI | : | Arab Federation for Libraries and Information |
| AFSARI | : | Automation for Storage and Retrieval of Information |
| AGM | : | Annual General Meeting |
| AGRIS | : | Agricultural Information System of International Information System for the Agricultural science & Technology |
| AHA | : | Accelerated Hub Architecture |
| AI | : | Artificial Intelligence |
| AIBA | : | Agricultural Information Bank of Asia |
| AICCM | : | Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials |
| AID | : | Associative Interactive Dictionary |
| AIIP | : | Association of Independent Information Professionals |
| AIRS | : | Alliance of Information and Referral Systems |
| AJAX | : | Asynchronous JavaScript and XML |
| ALA | : | American Library Association |
| ALCTS | : | The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services |
| ALGOL | : | Algorithmic Language |
| ALIA | : | Australian Library and Information Association |
| ALISE | : | Association for Library and Information Science Education |
| ALP | : | Advancement of Librarianship in the Third World Programme (IFLA) |
| ALPAC | : | Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee |
| ALPSP | : | Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers |
| ALS | : | Automated Library System |
| ALSD | : | Academy of Library science and Documentation |
| ALTA | : | American Library Trustees Association |
| ALU | : | Arithmetic Logic Unit |
| AMI | : | Association of Medical Illustrators |
| AMIC | : | Asian Mass communication and Research center |
| AMULA | : | Aligarh Muslim University Libraries Association |
| ANSI | : | American National Standards Institute |
| AOC | : | Army Ordnance Corps |
| APALA | : | Asian Pacific American Librarians association |
| APCTT | : | Asian Pacific Center for Transfer of Technology |
| API | : | Application Programming Interface. |
| APINESS | : | Asia-Pacific Information Network in Social Sciences |
| APINMAP | : | Asian and Pacific information Network on Medicine and Aromatic Plants |
| APPLE | : | Ariane Passenger Pay Load Experiment |
| APPM | : | Archives, Private Papers and Manuscripts (USA) |
| APSDEP | : | Asian and Pacific Skill Development |
| ARIC | : | Agricultural Research Information Center |
| ARIST | : | Art Libraries Society |
| ARL | : | Association of Research Libraries. |
| ARLIS | : | Annual Review of Information Science and Technology |
| ARMA | : | Association of Records Managers and Administrators; American Records Management Association |
| ARPANET | : | Advanced Research Project Network |
| ARSC | : | Association for Recorded Sound Collections |
| ASA | : | Americans Standard Association |
| ASCII | : | Americans Standard code for Information Interchange |
| ASIS | : | American Society for Information Science. |
| ASLIB | : | Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux |
| ASTINFO | : | Regional Network for the exchange of information and experience in science and technology in Asia and the Pacific |
| ASM | : | American Society for Metals |
| ATIS | : | Appropriate Technology Information Service |
| AUBC | : | All Union Book chamber |
| AUDACIOUS | : | Automatic Direct Access to Information with an On-Line UDC System |
Frequently Asked Questions
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Qus.What is the Full Form of ASMR ?
Ans.The full form of ASMR is the Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response
Qus.What is the Full Form of ATS?
Ans.The full form of ATS is the Anti-Terrorism Squad
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| BA | : | Biological Abstracts |
| BAILER | : | British Association for Information and Library Education and Research |
| BANKNET | : | Computer Network of Bank |
| BANSDOC | : | Bangladesh National Scientific and Technical Documentation Center |
| BARC | : | Bhabha Atomic Research Center |
| BASIC | : | Beginners all Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code |
| BBC | : | British Broadcasting Corporation |
| BBIP | : | British Book in Print |
| BBS | : | Bulletin Board System |
| BC | : | Bibliographic Classification |
| BCA | : | Bliss classification Association |
| BRC | : | Bibliography of Current Reports |
| BHI | : | British Humanities Index |
| BHULSA | : | Banaras Hindu University Library Science Students Association |
| BIDS | : | Bath Information and Data Services |
| BIOSIS | : | bioscience Information Service |
| BIRS | : | British Institute of Recorded Sound |
| BIS | : | The Bureau of Indian Standard |
| BISA | : | Bibliographic Information on South-East Asia |
| BITNET | : | Because It is Time Network |
| BL | : | British Library |
| BLACMP | : | Birmingham Library Co-operative Mechanisation Project |
| BLAISE | : | British Library Automated Information Service |
| BLDSC | : | British Library Document Supply Centre |
| BLISS | : | British Library Information Science Service |
| BLLD | : | British Library Lending Division |
| BLRD | : | British Library Research and Development |
| BM | : | British Museum |
| BNB | : | British National Bibliography |
| BPP | : | Books Presentation Programme |
| BPS | : | Bits Per Second |
| BS | : | British standard |
| BSA | : | Bibliographic Society American |
| BSI | : | British Standard Institute |
| BSO | : | Broad System of Ordering |
| BT | : | British Telecommunications plc |
| BTEC | : | Business and Technician Education Council |
| BTI | : | British Technology Index |
| BUBL | : | Bulletin Board for Libraries |
Frequently Asked Questions
Get answers to the most common queries related to the Abbreviations.
Qus.What is the Full Form of BBA ?
Ans.The full form of BBA is the Bachelor of Business Administration
Qus.What is the Full Form of BPSC?
Ans.The full form of BPSC is the Bihar Public Service Commission
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| CA | : | Chemical Abstracts |
| CAB | : | Citizens’ Advice Bureaux |
| CAD | : | Commission on Archival Development; Computer-Aided Design |
| CADIST | : | Centres d’Acquisitions et de Diffusion de l’Information Scientifique et Technique |
| CAIN | : | Cataloguing and Indexing |
| CAL | : | Computer-Assisted Learning |
| CALIBER | : | Convention on Automation of LIBraries in Education and Research Institutions. |
| CALIBNET | : | Calcutta Library Network |
| CAP | : | Centralised Acquisition of Periodicals |
| CAPL | : | Canadian Association of Public Libraries |
| CAR | : | Computer Assisted Retrieval |
| CARDS | : | Card Automated Reproduction Demand System |
| CARIS | : | Current Agricultural Research Information System |
| CARISPLAN | : | Caribbean Information System for Economic and Social Planning |
| CAS | : | Current Awareness Service |
| CASSI | : | Chemical Abstracts Service Source Index |
| CAT | : | Computer-Assisted Translation |
| CB | : | Citizens’ Band |
| CBI | : | Cumulative Book Index |
| CBS | : | Columbia Broadcasting System |
| CC | : | Colon Classification |
| CCC | : | Classified Catalogue Code |
| CCF | : | Common Communication Format |
| CCL | : | Common Commanded Language |
| CCT | : | Compulsory Competitive Tendering |
| CCTA | : | Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency |
| CCTV | : | Closed-Circuit Television |
| CD | : | Compact Disc |
| CDCR | : | Center for Documentation and Communication Research |
| CD-I | : | Compact Disc – Interactive |
| CDP | : | Custom Developed Programme |
| CD-R | : | Compact Disc – Recordable |
| CD- ROM | : | Compact Disc Read Only Memory |
| CDS/ISIS | : | Computerised Documentation System/ integrated Sets of Information System |
| CEAN | : | Central Electricity Authority Network |
| CEC | : | Commission of the European Communities |
| CEIS | : | Caribbean Energy Information System |
| CENID | : | National Centre for Information and Documentation (Chile) |
| CERN | : | European Centre for Nuclear Research |
| CESSDA | : | Committee of European Social Science Data Archives |
| CFTRI | : | Central Food Technological Research Institute |
| CHI | : | Computer–Human Interaction |
| CI | : | Citation Index |
| CIA | : | Central Intelligence Agency |
| CIC | : | Coconut Information Center |
| CICI | : | Confederation of Information Communication Industries |
| CIL | : | Central Institute of Indian Language |
| CILIP | : | Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. |
| CIP | : | Cataloguing in Publication |
| CIRDAP | : | Center on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific |
| CISTI | : | Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information |
| CITED | : | Copyright in Transferred Electronic Data |
| CITRA | : | Confe´rence Internationale de Table Ronde des Archives [International Conference of the Round Table on Archives] |
| CIX | : | Commercial Internet Exchange |
| CLA | : | Canada Library Association |
| CLENE | : | Continuing Library Education Network and Exchanged |
| CLR | : | Council on Library Resources |
| CLRI | : | Central Leather Institute |
| CLSCP | : | Copyright Libraries Shared Cataloguing Programme |
| CMS | : | Content Management System. |
| CMTI | : | Central Machine Tool Institute |
| COBOL | : | Common Business Oriented Language |
| CODATA | : | Committee on data for science and Technology |
| COM | : | Computer Output Microfilm |
| COMLA | : | Commonwealth Library Association |
| COMPENDEX | : | Computerised Engineering Index |
| COPICAT | : | Copyright Ownership Protection in Computer-Assisted Twinning |
| CORMOSEA | : | Committee on Deposit Material on Southeast Asia |
| CONSAL | : | Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians |
| COPSAT | : | Current Online Patent in Science and Technology |
| COUNTER | : | Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources |
| CPD | : | Continuing Professional Development |
| CPI | : | Canadian Periodical Index |
| CPM | : | Critical Path Method |
| CPU | : | Central Processing Unit |
| CRG | : | Classification Research Group |
| CRLIS | : | Current Research in Library and Information Science |
| CRS | : | Computerized Reservation Systems |
| CSCW | : | Computer-Supported Co-operative Work |
| CSIR | : | Council of Scientific & Industrial Research |
| CSMA | : | Carrier Sense Multiple Access |
| CSMA/CD | : | Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection |
| CSNET | : | Computer Science Network |
| CSIRO | : | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| CTI | : | Current Technology Index |
| CU | : | Control Unit |
| CURL | : | Consortium of University Research Libraries |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| DAE | : | Department of Atomic Energy |
| DARE | : | Department of Agricultural Research and Education |
| DARPNET | : | Defence Advanced Research Project Network |
| DAT | : | Digital Audio Tape |
| DBA | : | Documentation, Library and Archives Department of UNESCO |
| DBMS | : | Database Management System |
| DBS | : | Direct Broadcasting by Satellite |
| DBT | : | Department of Biotechnology |
| DC | : | Dictionary Catalogue |
| DCC | : | Digital Compact Cassette |
| DCE | : | Data Circuit-terminating Equipment |
| DCMI | : | Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. |
| DDC | : | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| DDS | : | Document Delivery Service |
| DELNET | : | Delhi Library Network |
| DES | : | Data Encryption Standard |
| DESIDOC | : | Defence Scientific Information and Documentation center |
| DEVINSA | : | Development Information Network on South Asia |
| DEVSIS | : | Development Science Information System |
| DIN | : | Document Identification Number |
| DIN | : | Document Identification Number |
| DIP | : | Document Image Processing |
| DIS | : | Development Information System |
| DLA | : | Delhi Library Association |
| DLF | : | Digital Library Federation. |
| DMAIC | : | Define, Measure, Access, Improve and Control. |
| DMP | : | Dot Matrix Printer |
| DNB | : | Dictionary of National Biography |
| DNES | : | Department of Non-Conventional Energy Sources |
| DNS | : | Domain Naming System. |
| DOD | : | Department of Ocean Development |
| DOS | : | Disc Operating System |
| DRDO | : | Defence Research and Development Organisation |
| DRTC | : | Documentation Research and Training Center |
| DSIR | : | Department of Scientific and Industrial Research |
| DSP | : | Digital Signal Processor |
| DSS | : | Decision Support Systems |
| DST | : | Department of Science and Technology |
| DTE | : | Data Terminal Equipment |
| DTI | : | Department of Trade and Industry |
| DTP | : | Desk Top Publishing |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| EAGLE | : | European Association for Grey Literature Exploitation |
| EBLIDA | : | European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations |
| EC | : | Expansive Classification |
| ECHO | : | European Commission Host Organization |
| EDI | : | Electronic Data Interchange |
| EDSAC | : | Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer |
| EGA | : | Extended Graphic Adopter |
| EIIA | : | European Information Industry Association |
| EIRENE | : | European Information Researchers Network |
| ELBS | : | Educational Low-priced Books Scheme |
| ENIAC | : | Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator |
| ENVIS | : | Environment Information System |
| EPIDOS | : | European Patent Information and Documentation Systems |
| EPLA | : | East Pakistan Library Association |
| EPO | : | European Patent Office |
| EPROM | : | Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory |
| ERIC | : | Educational Resource Information Center |
| ERNET | : | Education and Research Network |
| EROMM | : | European Register of Microform Masters |
| ES | : | Expert Systems |
| ESAIRS | : | European Space Agency Information Retrieval Service |
| ESPRIT | : | European Strategic Programme for Research in Information Technologies |
| ESRC | : | Economic and Social Research Council |
| ESTC | : | Eighteenth-century Short-Title Catalogue |
| ESTC-NA | : | Eighteenth-century Short-Title Catalogue North America |
| ETC | : | European Translation Center |
| ETS | : | European Telecommunications Standards |
| EU | : | European Union |
| EUCLID | : | European Conference of Library and Information Departments |
| EUNET | : | European Network |
| EUSIDIC | : | European Association of Information Services |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| FAIS | : | Foreign Affairs Information System |
| FBI | : | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| FDDI | : | Fibre Distributed Data Interface |
| FIAC | : | Federation of Independent Advice Centres |
| FID | : | International Federation for Information and Documentation |
| FIDA | : | International Archival Development Fund |
| FILA | : | Federation of Indian Library Association |
| FLA | : | Fellow of the Library Association |
| FOI | : | Freedom of Information |
| FOIA | : | Freedom of Information Act |
| FORTRAN | : | Formula Translator |
| FSU | : | Former Soviet Union |
| FT | : | Formula Translator |
| FTE | : | Full-Time Equivalent |
| FTP | : | File Transfer Protocol |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| GATT | : | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| Gb | : | Gigabyte |
| GCI | : | Getty Conservation Institute |
| GCS | : | Global Cataloguing Service |
| GD | : | Geographical Device |
| GDP | : | Gross Domestic Product |
| GDSS | : | Group Decision Support Systems |
| GILS | : | Government Information Locator Service |
| GIS | : | Geographic Information System |
| GOC | : | Good Office Committee |
| GUI | : | Graphical User Interface |
| GUIDE | : | Graphical User Interface Design and Evaluation |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| HCI | : | Human–Computer Interaction |
| HDTV | : | High Definition Television |
| HEA | : | Higher Education Act |
| HELLIS | : | Health Literature Library and Information Service |
| HF | : | Human Factors |
| HMSO | : | Her Majesty’s Stationery Office |
| HRD | : | Human Resource Development |
| HRM | : | Human Resource Management |
| HRP | : | Human Resource Planning |
| HSE | : | Human Resource Planning |
| HTML | : | HyperText Mark-up Language |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| IAEA | : | International Atomic Energy Agency |
| IALL | : | International Association of Low Libraries |
| IAMIC | : | International Association of Music Information Centres |
| IAML | : | International Association of Music Libraries |
| IARIL | : | International Association of Rural and Isolated Libraries |
| IAS | : | Individual Article Supply |
| IASA | : | International Association of Sound Archives |
| IASLIC | : | Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Center |
| IASSIST | : | International Association for Social Science Information Service and Technology |
| IATUL | : | IInternational Association of Technological University Libraries |
| IBB | : | International Business Machine |
| IBBY | : | International Board on Books for Young People |
| IBI | : | Intergovernmental Bureau of Information |
| IBICT | : | Brazilian Institute for Information in Science and Technology |
| IBM | : | International Business Machine |
| ICA | : | Information Center for Aeronautics |
| ICAR | : | Indian Council of Agricultural Research |
| ICCR | : | Indian Council of Cultural Relation |
| ICDM | : | Information Center for Development Policy Modeling |
| ICDR | : | International Center for Diarrheal Diseases Research |
| ICHR | : | Indian Council of Historical Research |
| ICMR | : | Indian Council of Medical Research (New Delhi) |
| ICPR | : | Indian Council of Philosophical Research |
| ICs | : | Integrated Circuits |
| ICSSR | : | Indian Council for Social Science Research |
| ICSU | : | International Council of Scientific Unions |
| ID | : | Identification |
| IDA | : | Integrated Digital Access |
| IDC | : | International Documentation Centre |
| IDRC | : | International Development Research Centre |
| IDSA | : | Institute of Defense Studies and Analysis |
| IEC | : | International Electrotechnical Commission |
| IEEE | : | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. |
| IFD | : | International Federation for Documentation |
| IFDO | : | International Federation of Data Organizations |
| IFIS | : | International Food Information Service |
| IFLA | : | International Federation of Library association and Institution |
| IHAC | : | Information Highway Advisory Council |
| IIB | : | International Institute of Bibliography; Institut International de Bibliographie (Now FID) |
| IIC | : | International Institute for the Conservation of Art and Historic Artefacts |
| IIC-GC | : | International Institute for Conservation – Canadian Group |
| IIR | : | Intelligent Information Retrieval |
| IIS | : | Institute of Information Scientists |
| IK | : | Indigenous Knowledge |
| ILA | : | Indian Library Association |
| ILL | : | Inter Library Loan |
| ILSA | : | Indian Library Science Abstract |
| IM | : | Information Management |
| INB | : | Indian National Bibliography |
| INFLIBNET | : | Information & Library Network |
| INFOTERRA | : | International Referral System for environmental Information |
| INIS | : | International Nuclear Information System |
| INIST | : | Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique |
| INPADOC | : | International Patent Documentation Service |
| INSAT | : | Indian National Satellite |
| INSDOC | : | Indian National Scientific Documentation Center |
| IPA | : | International Publishers Association |
| IPC | : | Institute for Paper Conservation |
| IR | : | Information Retrieval |
| IRC | : | Internet Relay Chat |
| IRM | : | Information Resource(s) Management |
| IRPTC | : | International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals |
| IRS | : | Information Retrieval System |
| IRTC | : | Industrial Toxicology Research Center |
| IS | : | Information Superhighway |
| ISA | : | Indian Standardization Association |
| ISBD | : | International Standard Bibliographic Description |
| ISBN | : | International Standard Book Number |
| ISDN | : | Integrated Service Digital Network |
| ISDS | : | International Serials Data System |
| ISA | : | Indian Standard Institution |
| ISI | : | Institute for Scientific Information |
| ISMN | : | International Standard Music Number |
| ISO | : | International Standard Organization |
| ISONET | : | International Organization for Standardization Network |
| ISRN | : | International Standard Recording Number |
| ISRO | : | Indian Space Research Organization |
| ISSN | : | International Standard Serial Number |
| IT | : | Information Technology |
| ITC | : | International Translations Centre |
| ITIB | : | Industrial and Technological Information Bank |
| ITU | : | International Telecommunications Union |
Frequently Asked Questions
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Qus.What is the Full Form of IAS?
Ans.The full form of IAS is the Indian Administrative Services
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| JANET | : | Joint Academy Network |
| JASIST | : | Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology |
| JELIS | : | Journal of Education for Library and Information Science |
| JLA | : | Japan Library Association |
| JPRS | : | Joint Publications Research Service |
| JSC | : | Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| Kb | : | Kilobyte |
| KBMT | : | Knowledge-Based Machine Translation |
| KGB | : | Knowledge Generation exchange and Utilization |
| KGEU | : | Knowledge Generation exchange and Utilization |
| KIPS | : | Knowledge Information Processing System |
| KLA | : | Korean Library Association |
| KWAC | : | KeyWord and Contex |
| KWIC | : | Key Word in Context |
| KWIC | : | Key Word in Context |
| KWOC | : | Key Word in Context |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| LA | : | Library Association |
| LA (UK) | : | The Library Association of the United Kingdom |
| LAA | : | Library Association of Australia |
| LAB | : | Library Association of Bangladesh |
| LAC | : | Library Association of China |
| LAN | : | Local Area Network |
| LAP-B | : | Link Access Procedure – Balanced Protocol |
| LAPL | : | Library Association Publishing Limited |
| LASER | : | London and Southeast Regional Library Bureau |
| LAUK | : | Library Association of the United Kingdom; now the Library Association |
| LC | : | Library of Congress |
| LCC | : | Library of Congress Classification |
| LCCDG | : | Library Collections Conservation Discussion Group |
| LCMARC | : | Library of Congress Machine-Readable Cataloging |
| LCSH | : | Library of Congress Subject Headings |
| LED | : | Light-Emitting Diode |
| LIBRIS | : | Library and Information System |
| LINC | : | Library and Information Co-operation Council |
| LIP | : | Library and Information Plan |
| LIS | : | Library and Information Science |
| LISA | : | Library and Information Science Abstract |
| LISC | : | Library and Information Science |
| LIST | : | Library and Information Science Today |
| LITA | : | Library and Information technology Association |
| LIU | : | Local Information Unit |
| LLA | : | Local Information Unit |
| LLC | : | Logical Link Control |
| LML | : | Logical Link Control |
| LOCAS | : | Local catalogue Service |
| LOCIS | : | Library of Congress Information System |
| LOEX | : | Library Orientation Instruction Exchange |
| LP | : | Long-Playing Record |
| LSA | : | Library science Abstract |
| LSI | : | Large Scale Integration |
| LUCI | : | Logical Unit based Cyclic Index |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| MA | : | Master of Arts |
| MA | : | Museums Association |
| MAD2 | : | Manual of Archival Description, 2nd edn (UK) |
| MADAM | : | Manchester Automatic Digital Machine |
| MALA | : | Madras Library Association |
| MALMARC | : | Malaysian MARC |
| MAMLIBNET | : | Madras Library Network |
| MAN | : | Metropolitan Area Network |
| MAP | : | Manufacturing Automation Protocol |
| MARBI | : | Machine Readable form of Bibliographic Information |
| MARC | : | Machine Readable catalogue |
| MAT | : | Machine-Aided Translation |
| Mb | : | Megabyte |
| MBO | : | Management by Objective |
| MDA | : | Museums Documentation Association |
| MEDLARS | : | Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System |
| MERLIN | : | Machine Readable Library information (UK) |
| MeSH | : | Medical Subject Headings |
| MHz | : | Megahertz |
| MI | : | InfSci Member, Institute of Information Scienists |
| MICR | : | Magnetic Ink Character Recorder |
| MIDI | : | Musical Instrument Device Interface |
| MIDLINET | : | Midwest Region Library Network |
| MILNET | : | Military Network |
| MIMOS | : | Malaysian Institute of Microelectronic Systems |
| MIP | : | Modern Information Professional |
| MIS | : | Management Information System |
| MISS | : | Medical Information Science Section (USA) |
| MIT | : | Management Information System |
| MLA | : | Medical Library Association (USA) |
| MLS | : | Master of Library Science/Studies |
| MOL | : | Mail Order Library |
| MMI | : | Man–Machine Interaction |
| MMS | : | Man–Machine Systems |
| MOS | : | Metal Oxide Semiconductor |
| MPC | : | Multimedia Personal Computers |
| MPhil | : | Master of Philosophy |
| MPM | : | Multimedia Presentation Manager |
| MS | : | Manuscript |
| MS-DOS | : | Microsoft Disk Operating System |
| MSI | : | Medium Scale Integration |
| MSS | : | Management Support System |
| MT | : | Machine Translation |
| MUSE | : | Music Search |
| MWSS | : | Microsoft Windows Sound System |
Frequently Asked Questions
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Qus.What is the Full Form of MBBS?
Ans.The full form of MBBS is the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
Qus.What is the Full Form of MB?
Ans.The full form of MB is the MegaByte
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| NACAB | : | National Association of Citizens’ Advice Bureaux |
| NACILA | : | National Council of Indian Library Association |
| NACL | : | National Advisory Commission on Libraries (USA) |
| NACO | : | National Coordinated Cataloguing Operations |
| NACSIS | : | National Centre for Scientific Information Systems |
| NAG | : | National Acquisitions Group |
| NAI | : | National Archives of India |
| NAL | : | National Aeronautical Laboratory |
| NAL | : | National Agricultural Library (USA) |
| NAPC | : | National Programme for Acquisition and Cataloguing |
| NARA | : | National Archives and Records Administration |
| NASA | : | National Aeronautical and Space Administration |
| NASSDOC | : | National Social Science Documentation Center |
| NATIS | : | National Information System |
| NBC | : | National Broadcasting Corporation |
| NBLC | : | Nederlands Bibliotheek en Lektuur Centrum [Dutch Centre for Public Library Literature] |
| NBS | : | National Bibliographic Service |
| NBT | : | National Book Trust |
| NCCP | : | National Coordinated Cataloguing Programme |
| NCIP | : | North American Collection Inventory Project |
| NCL | : | National Central Library |
| NCL | : | National Chemical Laboratory |
| NCSI | : | National Centre for Science Information |
| NDLP | : | Netherlands Library Development Project |
| NEPHIS | : | Nested Phrase Indexing System |
| NGO | : | Non-Governmental Organization |
| NHS | : | National Health Service |
| NIC | : | National Informatics Center |
| NICDAP | : | National Information Centre for Drug and Pharmaceuticals |
| NICFOS | : | National Information Centre for Chemistry and Chemical Technology |
| NICLAI | : | National Information Centre for Leather and Allied Industry |
| NICMAP | : | National Information Centre for Machine Tools and Allied Products |
| NICNET | : | National Informatic Centre Network |
| NIDOC | : | National Information and Documentation Centre |
| NIFOR | : | National Information Service |
| NII | : | National Institute of Immunology |
| NILA | : | North India Library Association |
| NIP | : | National Information Policy |
| NISIET | : | National Institute of Small Industry Extension Training |
| NISO | : | National Information Standards Organization |
| NISS | : | National Social Science Information System |
| NISSAT | : | National Information System for Science and Technology |
| NLB | : | National Library for the Blind |
| NLB | : | National Library of Bangladesh |
| NLG | : | National Libraries Group |
| NLLST | : | National Lending Library for Science and Technology |
| NLM | : | National Library of Medicine |
| NLSFBPH | : | National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped |
| NML | : | National Medical Library |
| NNLM | : | National Network for Libraries in Medicine |
| NORDBOK | : | Nordic Literature and Library Committee |
| NORDINFO | : | Nordic Committee on Scientific Information and Documentation |
| NOSP | : | Nordic Union Catalogue of Scientific Periodicals |
| NREN | : | National Research and Education Network |
| NSA | : | National Sound Archive |
| NSDD | : | National Security Decision Directive |
| NSF | : | National Science Foundation |
| NSTP | : | New Straits Times Publications |
| NTA | : | National Telecommunications Agency |
| NTC | : | National Translation Centre |
| NTE | : | Network Terminating Equipment |
| NTIA | : | National Telecommunications and Information Administration |
| NTIS | : | National Technical Information Service |
| NUC | : | National Union Catalog |
| NUCMC | : | National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections |
| NUCSSI | : | National Union Catalogue of Scientific Serials in India |
| NVQ | : | National Vocational Qualification |
| NWICO | : | New World Information and Communication Order |
| NYSILL | : | New York State Inter Library Loan Network |
| NYT | : | New York Times |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| OCLC | : | The On-lien Computer Library Centre |
| OCLC | : | Ohio College Library Centre |
| OCR | : | Optical Character Recognition |
| ODA | : | Open Document Architecture |
| OECD | : | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| OED | : | Oxford English Dictionary |
| OLAS | : | On-line Acquisition System |
| OLE | : | Object Linking and Embedding |
| OMB | : | One-Man Band |
| OMG | : | Object Management Group |
| OOS | : | Occupational Overuse Syndrome |
| OPAC | : | On-line Public access Catalogue |
| OPACS | : | Online Public-Access Catalogues |
| OPL | : | One-Person Libraries |
| OR | : | Operation Research |
| OSB | : | Order of St Benedict |
| OSI | : | Open System Interconnection |
| OSS | : | Office of Strategic Studies |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| PAC | : | Preservation and Conservation Core Programme (IFLA) |
| PAD | : | Packet Assembly/Disassembly Device |
| PANSDOC | : | Pakistan National Scientific and Technical Documentation Centre |
| PARC | : | Palo Alto Research Center |
| PASTIC | : | Pakistan Scientific and Technical Information Centre |
| PBWG | : | Pakistan Bibliographical Working Group |
| PC | : | Personal Computer |
| PDNs | : | Public Data Networks |
| PERT | : | Programme Evaluation and Review Technique |
| PGP | : | Pretty Good Privacy |
| PhD | : | Doctor of Philosophy |
| PIIC | : | Public Interest Immunity Certificate |
| PIN | : | Personal Identification Number |
| PINFET | : | PIN Field Effect Transistors |
| PIS | : | Patents Information System |
| PLA | : | Pakistan Library Association |
| PLR | : | Public Lending Right |
| PNB | : | Pakistan National Bibliography |
| POPIN | : | Population Information Network |
| POPSI | : | Postulate Based Permutated subject Indexing |
| POSDCORB | : | Planning Organizing Staffing Directing Co- ordinating Reporting and Budgeting |
| POTS | : | Plain Old Telephone System |
| PPBS | : | Planning Programming Budgeting System |
| PPP | : | Point to Point Protocol |
| PPRG | : | Publicity and Public Relations Group |
| PRECIS | : | Preserved context Indexing System |
| PRO | : | Public Records Office |
| PROM | : | Programmable Read Only Memory |
| PSS | : | Packet Switching System |
| PST | : | Permutes Subject Index |
| PSTN | : | Public Switched Telephone Network |
| PTLA | : | Publishers Trade List Annual |
| PTT | : | Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones |
| PULINET | : | Provincial University Library Network |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| QA | : | Quality Assurance |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| R&D | : | Research and Development |
| RAD | : | Rules for Archival Description (Canada) |
| RAILNET | : | Computer Network for Railways |
| RAM | : | Random access Memory |
| RAMP | : | Records and Archives Management Programme |
| RATER | : | Reliability, Assurance, Tangibles, Empathy and Responsiveness |
| RBU | : | Re´pertoire Bibliographique Universel |
| RCRC | : | Rural Community Resource Centre |
| RDC | : | Rules for Dictionary Catalogue |
| RENBU | : | National Network of University Libraries (Argentina) |
| RGA | : | Readers’ Guide Abstracts |
| RIC | : | Regional Information Centre |
| RIPM | : | Re´pertoire Internationale de la Presse Musicale |
| RISM | : | Re´pertoire Internationale des Sources Musicales |
| RLG | : | Research Libraries Group |
| RLIN | : | Research Library Information Network |
| RLS | : | Regional Library System |
| RMDC | : | Regional Mineral Resource Development Centre |
| RMS | : | Records Management Society |
| RNIB | : | Royal National Institute for the Blind |
| ROM | : | Read Only Memory |
| RRRLF | : | Raja Ram Mohan Roy Library Foundation |
| RSI | : | Repetitive Strain Injury |
| RT | : | Related Terms |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| SAA | : | Systems Applications Architecture |
| SAM | : | Serial Access Memory |
| SAMARC | : | South African Machine Readable Cataloguing |
| SARBICA | : | Southeast Asian Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives |
| SBDN | : | Satellite Based Data Network |
| SC | : | Subject Classification |
| SCECSAL | : | Standing Conference of East, Central and Southern African Librarians |
| SCI | : | Science Citation Index |
| SCONUL | : | Standing Conference of National and University Libraries |
| SDC | : | System Development Corporation |
| SDI | : | Selective Dissemination of Information |
| SEAMIC | : | South – East Asian Medical Information Centre |
| SENDOC | : | Small Enterprise National documentation Centre |
| SGML | : | Standard Generalized Mark-up Language |
| SHE | : | Subject Heading for Engineering |
| SIG | : | Special Interest Group |
| SIG | : | Special Interest Group |
| SIGLE | : | System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe |
| SILAS | : | Singapore Library Automation System SINASBI National System of Library Information |
| SISA | : | School of Information Studies for Africa |
| SIRNET | : | Scientific and Industrial Research Network |
| SL | : | Source Language |
| SLA | : | Special Libraries Association |
| SLB | : | Section of Libraries for the Blind |
| SLIP | : | Serial Line Internet Protocol |
| SMEs | : | Small and Medium-sized Enterprises |
| SNA | : | System Network Architecture |
| SNB | : | Singapore National Bibliography |
| SONET | : | Synchronous Optical Network |
| SPC | : | Stored Programme Control |
| SPIN | : | Special Interest Network |
| SPSS | : | Statistical Package for Social Science |
| SQL | : | Structured Query Language |
| SSDC | : | Social Science Documentation Centre |
| STC | : | Short Title Catalogue |
| STM | : | Scientific, Technical and Medical (book publishing) |
| STS | : | Science, Technology and Society |
| STSI | : | Science Technology and Social Information |
| STUDIO | : | Structured User Interface Design for Interaction Optimization |
| STV | : | Share the Vision |
| SWALCAP | : | South – West Academic Libraries Co-operative Automation Project |
| SWIFT | : | Society For Worldwide Interbank Financial Communications |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| TCP/IP | : | Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol |
| TDF | : | Transborder Data Flow |
| TDNs | : | Terrestrial Data Networks |
| TELEX | : | Tele-printer Exchange |
| TFPL | : | Task Force Pro Libra |
| TIB | : | Technology Information Bank |
| TIFR | : | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| TIPS | : | Technology Information Pilot System |
| TIS | : | Trade Information Service |
| LA | : | Target Language |
| TLA | : | Tripura Library Association |
| TLTP | : | Teaching and Learning Technology Programme |
| TNAUK | : | Talking Newspaper Association of the United Kingdom |
| TOP | : | Technical and Office Centre |
| TQM | : | Total Quality Management |
| TRC | : | Technology Research Center |
| TREC | : | Text Retrieval Evaluation Conference |
| TRIPS | : | Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights |
| TTL | : | Transistor – Transistor Logic |
| TV | : | Television |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| UAI | : | Universal Availability of Information |
| UAP | : | Universal Availability of Publications Programme (IFLA) |
| UBC | : | Universal Bibliographic Control |
| UBCIM | : | Universal Bibliographic Control and International MARC |
| UCL | : | University College London |
| UDC | : | Universal Decimal classification |
| UE | : | User Education |
| UGC | : | University Grant Commission |
| UIA | : | Union of International Associations |
| UIMS | : | User Interface Management System |
| UIN | : | User Identification Number |
| UKMARC | : | United Kingdom Machine-Readable Cataloguing |
| UMIST | : | University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology |
| UNESCO | : | United Nation Education Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| UNIMARC | : | Universal Machine-Readable Cataloguing |
| UNISIST | : | United Nations Information System in Science and Technology |
| UNIVAC | : | Universal Automatic Computer |
| URL | : | Uniform Resource Locator |
| USSR | : | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| UTLAS | : | University of Toronto Library Automation System |
| UWI | : | University of the West Indies |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| VAN | : | Value-Added Network |
| VAT | : | Value-Added Tax (EU countries) |
| VDT | : | Visual Display Terminal |
| VDU | : | Visual Display Unit |
| VGA | : | Video Graphic Adopter |
| VLSI | : | Very Large Scale Integration |
| VMS | : | Voice Mail Systems |
| VOD | : | Video On Demand |
| VR | : | Virtual Reality |
| VRAM | : | Video Random Access Memory |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| WADEX | : | Word and Author Index |
| WAIS | : | Wide-Area Information Server |
| WAN | : | Wide Area Network |
| WAPIS | : | Water and Power Information System |
| WARC | : | World Administrative Radio Conference |
| WHO | : | World Health Organization |
| WIMPS | : | Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pull-down menus |
| WIPO | : | World Intellectual Property Organization |
| WLN | : | Western Library Network |
| WLSP | : | World List of Scientific Periodicals |
| WORM | : | Write Once Read and many |
| WP | : | Word Processing |
| WPI | : | World Talents Index |
| WTI | : | World Translation Index |
| WWW | : | World Wide Web |
| WYSIWYG | : | What You See Is What You Get |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
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| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| YAS | : | Young Adult Service |
| Abbreviation | : | Full Form |
| ZBB | : | Zero Base Budgeting |
