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List of Acronyms


ACSA Australian Citizen Science Association

AGINFRA+ Accelerating user-driven e-infrastructure innovation in Food Agriculture

ALLEA All European Academies

API Application Programming Interface

BOAI Budapest Open Access Initiative

CC Creative Commons

CFREU Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union

CJEU Court of Justice of the European Union

CODATA Committee on Data (International Science Council)

COS Center for Open Science

COVID-19 Corona Virus Disease

CRISPR Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats

CUDOS Communism, Universalism, Disinterestedness, and Organised Scepticism

DG Directorate General (EC)

DMP Data Management Plan

DNA DeoxyriboNucleic Acid

DOI Digital Object Identifier

DRM Digital Rights Management

EARTO European Association of Research and Technology Organisations

EC European Commission

ECSA European Citizen Science Association

EIF EOSC Interoperability Framework

EOSC European Open Science Cloud

EPC European Patent Convention

EPO European Patent Office

ERA European Research Area

ESCR Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

EU European Union

FAIR Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable

FNS-Cloud Food Nutrition Security - Cloud.

FOI Freedom of Information

FOSS Free and Open Source Software

FP Framework Programme

FSC Future of Scholarly Communication

FSF Free Software Foundation

FTP File Transfer Protocol

GAO United States Government Accountability Office

GDPR Global Data Protection Regulation

GPL General Public License

HLEG High-Level Expert Group

ICESCR International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

ICT Information and Communication Technologies

IETF Internet Engineering Task Force

IP Intellectual Property

IPP Intellectual Property Protection

IPR Intellectual Property Right/s

ISBN International Standard Book Number

JIF Journal Impact Factor

JRC Joint Research Center (EC)

KV Knowledge Valorisation

LIBER Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche -- Association of European Research Libraries

LOD Linked Open Data

MOOC Massive Open Online Course

MS Member States (EU)

NGM Next Generation Metrics

NGO Non-Governmental Organisation

OA Open Access

OCL Open COVID License

OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

OFIPROS Office for Free Intellectual Property Rights and Open Science

OI Open Innovation

ORD Open Research Data

ORE Open Research Europe

OS Open Science

OS-CAM Open Science - Career Assessment Matrix

OSPP Open Science Policy Platform

P2P Peer to Peer

PAE Patent Assertion Entities

PCI Practical Commitment for Implementation

PCR Polymerase Chain Reaction

PCT Patent Cooperation Treaty

PID Persistent Identifier

PSI Public Sector Information

R&I Research and Innovation

RDA Research Data Alliance

RDM Research Data Management

REC Recommendation

RFC Request For Comments

RPO Research Performing Organisation

RRS Rights Retention Strategy

SDG Sustainable Development Goals

SEP Strategy Evaluation Protocol

SGDR Sui generis database right

SME Small and Medium Enterprise

SRIA Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (See. EOSC)

TWAS The World Academy of Sciences

TDM Text and Data Mining

TFDIR Turning FAIR Data Into Reality

TRIPS Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

UDHR Universal Declaration of the Human Rights

UN United Nations

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

US United States of America

WCT WIPO Copyright Treaty

WHO World Health Organisation

WIPO The World Intellectual Property Organization

WTO World Trade Organisation