LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

ASCE
ASME
ACS
ADONIS
AGRICOLA
AGRIS
AICTE
ALA
ASCII
AVRDC
BBS
BITNET
BLRD
BOAI
CAB
CABI
CALIBER
CALIS
CAS
CCSHAU
CDRI
CD-ROM
CeRA
CGIAR
COC
CSIR
CSIRO
CSKHPKV
CURL
DAE
DAUs
DDS
DESIDOC
DOAJ
DOIs
DRDO
DRTC
DVD-ROM
EBL

American Society of Civil Engineers

American Society of Mechanical Engineers
American Chemical Society
Article Delivery Over Network Information Systems
Agricultural Online Access
International Information System for Agriculture Sciences &
Technology
All India Council of Technical Education
American Library Association
American Standard Code for Information Interchange
Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center
Bulletin Board System
Because It's Time Network
British Library Research and Development
Budapest Open Access Initiative
Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux
Centre for Agricultural Bioscience International
Convention on Automation of Libraries in Education and Research
Institutions
China Academic Library and Information System
Current Awareness Service
Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural University
Central Drug Research Institute
Compact Disk Read Only Memory
Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
Consortium of Consortia
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Krishi
Vishvavidyalaya
Consortium of University Research Libraries
Department of Atomic Energy
Deemed Agricultural Universities
Digital Data Storage
Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre
Directory of Open Access Journals
Digital Object Identifiers
Defense Research and Development Organization
Documentation Research and Training Centre
Digital Versatile Disc Read Only Memory
Eskind Biomedical Library

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E-Journal
e-JUST
E-Resources
ERL
ERNET
et. al.
E-TOC
FAO
FAQ
FinELib
FORSA
FSTA
FTP
GAELIC
GALILEO
GBPUAT
HAU
HEAL-Link
HELIN
HTML
HTTP
ICAR
ICMR
ICOLC
ICT
IDRC
IEEE
IGCAR
IIIT
IIITM
IIM
IIMK
IIS
IISERs
IIT
IITs
ILA
ILL
INDEST
INFLIBNET
INSA
ISID

Electronic Information Exchange Systems

Electronic Journal
E-Journal User Study
Electronic Resources
Electronic Research Laboratory
Educational and Research Network
And others
Electronic Table of Contents
Food and Agriculture Organization
Frequently asked questions
Finland National Electronic Library Consortium
The Forum for Resource Sharing in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Food Science and Technology Abstracts
File Transfer Protocol
Gauteng and Environs Library Consortium
Georgia Library Learning Online
Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology
Haryana Agricultural University
Hellenic Academic Libraries Link
Higher Educational Library Information Network
Hypertext Markup Language
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Indian Council of Agricultural Research
Indian Council of Medical Research
International Coalition of Library Consortia
Information Communication Technology
International Development Research Centre
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research
Indian Institute of Information Technology
Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management
Indian Institute of Management
Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
Indian Institutes of Science
Indian Institute of Science Education And Research
Indian Institute of technology
Indian institutes of Technology
Indian Library Association
Inter Library Loan
Indian National Digital Library in Engineering Science and
Technology
Information and Library Network
Indian National Science Academy
Institute for studies in Industrial Development

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ISSN
IVRI
JBC
JCCC
JIAHR
JLMR
JMI
JNU
JSTOR
KGKs
KrishiPrabha
KVKs
LAN
LIS
LNCS
MHRD
NAAC
NAIP
NARS
NCST
NDRI
NEICON
NERIST
NISCAIR
NITIE
NITs
NSF
NTU
OA
OhioLINK
OJCCT
OPAC
PALCI
PAU
PDF
PEC
PEPSU
PULINET
RRSs
RSC
SAUs
SCI

Indian Space Research Organization

International Standard Serial Number
Indian Veterinary Research Institute
Journal of Biochemistry
J- Gate Custom contents for Consortia
The Journal of the International Academy of Hospitality Research
Journal of Machine Learning Research
Jamia Milia Islamia University
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Journal Storage Project
Krishi Gyan Kendras
Indian Agricultural Doctoral Dissertation Repository
Krishi Vigyan Kendras
Local Area Network
Library and Information Science
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Ministry of Human Resource Development
National Assessment and Accreditation Council
National Agricultural Innovation Project
National Agricultural Research Systems
National Commission for Scheduled Tribes
National Dairy Research Institute
National Electronic Information Consortium
North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology
National Institute of Science Communication and Information
Resources
National Institute of Industrial Engineering
National Institute of technology
National Science foundation
Nanyang Technological University
Open Access
Ohio Library and Information Network
Online Journal of Current Clinical Trials
Online Public Access Catalog
The Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium
Punjab Agricultural University
Portable Document Format
Punjab Engineering College
Patiala and East Punjab States Union
Provincial University Library Network
Regional Research Stations
Royal Society of Chemistry
State Agricultural Universities
Science Citation Index

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SOUL
SPSS
SUNY
TELNET
THAILINET
ThaiLIS
TIET
UAEU
UAEU
UGC
UGC-INFONET
UNESCO
USA
VIVA
WRLC
WWW
YSPUOHAF

Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics

Software for University Libraries
Statistical Package for Social Scientists
State University of New York
Telecommunication Network
Thai Academic Library Network
Thai Library Integrated System
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology
United Arab Emirates University
United Arab Emirates University
University Grants Commission
University Grants Commission Information Network
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
United States of America
Virtual Library of Virginia
World Research Library Centre
World Wide Web
Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry

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