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Acronyms and Abbreviations

An acronym is "a word formed from the initial letters of other words", eg. laser, IBM, or Aids. (OUP, 2004). An abbreviation is defined as "a shortened form of a word or phrase", eg. etc., min.. (OUP, 2004).

This collection contains links to general and subject-specific acronyms and abbreviations.

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Links to acronyms and abbreviations

General acronyms and abbreviations
Subject-specific acronyms and abbreviations
Journal title abbreviations

General acronyms and abbreviations

Acronym Finder

A comprehensive dictionary of acronyms, abbreviations, and initialisms with more than 350 000 definitions.

Stands4.com

"The source for acronyms and abbreviations" is a search tool that can also be browsed using categories.

 

Subject-specific acronyms and abbreviations

Acronyms and Initialisms for Health Information Resources

A list of acronyms for the health, medical, and veterinary sciences, with links to relevant web sites.

BABEL

A glossary of computer oriented abbreviations and acronyms.

Building Catalogue acronyms and abbreviations

Acronyms and abbreviations relating to the construction and design industries.

Dictionary of abbreviations and acronyms in geographic information systems, cartography, and remote sensing

Decodes abbreviations and acronyms found in maps, publications and web sites relating to geographic topics.

Geoscience Australia acronyms

Acronyms and abbreviations relating to Australia's geoscience research and geospatial information

Medi lexicon

A searchable medical abbreviations dictionary.

The Opaui guide to lists of acronyms, abbreviations and initialisms on the World Wide Web

Generic lists as well as subject-specific acronyms & abbreviations. Arranged alphabetically.

Tourism acronyms

This list explains acronyms used in the Australian and global tourism and travel industries. Published by Tourism Tasmania.

 

Journal title abbreviations

Abbreviations for Law Reports

A list of commonly used law report abbreviations by the Murdoch University Library.

ISI Journal Abbreviations Index

A registry of Web resources, created by the California Institute of Technology, which lists or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations.

Index to Legal Abbreviations

This web-based service allows you to search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications, from the UK, the Commonwealth and the US.

 

References:
Oxford University Press 2004, AskOxford.com, viewed 9 July 2004, http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/acronym?view=uk.

Oxford University Press 2004, AskOxford.com, viewed 9 July 2004, http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/abbreviation?view=uk.

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