ABBREVIATIONS ACBSP ACM ACRL ADINET ADR ADSL AGRIS AICTE ALA ALIA ALISE ALPSP AMBA AMC ARL ASCE ASIS ASIST ASLIB ASME ATMA BALNET BARC BBA BBM BBS BGP BIMTECH Accreditation Council for Business School and Programs Access Control Management Association of College and Research Library Ahmadabad Library Network Audit Data Reduction Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line International System for Agricultural Science and Technology All India Council for Technical Education American Library Association Australian Library and Information Association Association for Library and Information Science Education Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers Association of MBAs Annual Maintenance Contract Association of Research Libraries American Society of Civil Engineers Library American Society for Information Science American Society for Information Science Technology Association for Information Management American Society of Mechanical Engineers e-journals Package AIMS Test for Management Admissions Bangalore Library Network Bhabha Atomic Research Centre Bachelor of Business Administration Bachelor of Business Management Bachelor of Business Studies Border Gateway Protocol Birla Institute of Management Technology xix
BLCMP BONET BOSLA B-Schools BSNL BTISNET CAI CALIBNET CAS / STN CAS CAT CBI CBT CCTV C-DAC CET CFTRI CILIP CISCO CLIR CLRI CMAT CNI COPOL CSIR CSU/DSU CUCOLIS DAC DAV Birmingham Libraries Co-operative Mechanisation Project Bombay Library Network Bombay Science Librarians Association Business Schools Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Biotechnology Information System Network Computer-Assisted Instruction or Computer-Aided Instruction Calcutta Library Network Chemical Abstracts Service / Scientific and Technical Information Network Current Awareness Service Common Admission Test Computer-Based Instruction Computer-Based Training Closed-Circuit Television Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Common Entrance Test Central Food Technological Research Institute Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals Commercial & Industrial Security Corporation Council on Library and Information Resources Central Leather Research Institute, Madras Common Management Admission Test Coalition for Networked Information Council of Polytechnic Librarians Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Channel Service Unit / Data Service Unit Current Contents for Library and Information Science Discretionary Access Control Dayanand Anglo Vedic xx
DCM DDS DEC DEIs DELNET DESIDOC DG set DHCP DLA DLIs DNS DoD DRDO DRTC DSIR DST DTE DVD EDI EDS ELNIT E-MAT EQUIS ERNET FDDI FORSA FTP GDP GMAT GOAL-Net Descriptive Cataloguing Manual Data Distribution Service Distance Education Council Distance Education Institutes Developing Library Network Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre Diesel Generating sets Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol Delhi Library Association Distance Learners Institutions Domain Name Server Department of Defence Defence Research and Development Organisation Documentation Research and Training Centre Department of Science and Industrial Research Department of Science and Technology Directorate of Technical Education Digital Video Disc / Digital Versatile Disc Electronic Data Interchange (Clearing house) Electronic Data Systems Electronic Libraries and New Information Technologies Executive Management Aptitude Test European Quality Improvement System Education and Research Network Fiber Distributed Data Interface Forum for Resource Sharing in Astronomy & Astrophysics File Transfer Protocol Gross Domestic Product Graduate Management Aptitude Test Goa Library Network xxi
HDLC HEC HELINET HRM HTTP HYLIBNET IACBE IASLIC IATLIS IATUL IBM IBSAT IBT ICICI Knowledge Park ICMR ICSSR ICT IDS IFLA IGNOU IIFT IIHMR IIL IIMA IIMB IIMC IIMHRD IIMI High-level Data Link Control Higher Education Commission Health Sciences Library & Information Network Human Resource Management Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Hyderabad Library Network International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres Indian Association of Teachers of Library and Information Science International Association of Technological University Libraries International Business Machines ICFAI Business Studies Aptitude Test Internet-Based Training Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI) Knowledge Park Indian Council of Medical Research Indian Council of Social Science Research Information and Communication Technology Intrusion Detection System International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Indira Gandhi National Open University Indian Institute of Foreign Trade Indian Institute of Health Management Research Inter Library Loan Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta now Kolkata International Institute of Management and Human Resource Development Indian Institute of Management, Indore xxii
IIMK IIML IISc IISWBM IIT ILA ILIAC IMAP IMT INDEST INDOLIBNET INFLIBNET INFONET INIS INSDOC IP IP Camera IPS IPX IR IRC IRS ISB ISC ISDN ISP ISRO IUC IUCAA Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow Indian Institute of Science Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management Indian Institutes of Technology Indian Library Association International Library Information and Analytical Center Internet Messaging Access Protocol Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad Indian National Digital Library in Engineering Sciences and Technology Indore Library Network Information and Library Network Information Network International Nuclear Information System Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre Internet Protocol Internet Protocol Camera Intrusion Prevention System Internetwork Packet Exchange (Protocol) Institutional Repository Information Resource Centre Indian Remote Sensing / Information Retrieval System Indian School of Business Information Systems Committee Integrated Services Digital Network Internet Service Provider Indian Space Research Organization Inter-University Centre Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics xxiii
IXP JASIST JCCC JISC JMET KLA LAN LC LIC LIDDAS LIS LISA LIST LUCKLIBNET MAC MAC MALA MALBNET MAN MANLIBNET MAT MBA MBM MBS MCA MCLC MCM MCS Internet Exchange Point Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology J-Gate Custom Content for Consortium Joint Information Systems Committee Joint Management Entrance Test Kerala Library Association Local Area Network Library of Congress Library and Information Center Local Inter-lending and Document Delivery Administration Systems Library and Information Science Library and Information Science Abstracts Library and Information Science and Technology Lucknow Library and Information Centers Network Media Access Control Mandatory Access Control Madras Library Association Madras Library Network Metropolitan Area Network Management Library Network Management Aptitude Test Master of Business Administration Master of Business Management Master of Business Studies Master of Computer Application Mysore City Library Consortium Master of Computer Management Master of Computer Science xxiv
MEDLINE MERC MIB M-Learning MMS MPLS MPM MTNL MYLIBNET NAT NAAC NAL NASSDOC NAT NBA NCB NCL NCSI NCST NDS NETBEUI NFIL NFS NHS NIC NIC NICAC NICDAP NICHEM NICMAP Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online Managerial Excellence Resource Centre Master of International Business Mobile Learning Master of Management Studies Multiple Label Switching Master of Personnel Management Mahanagar Telephone Exchange Limited Mysore Library Network Network Address Translation (Protocol) National Assessment and Accreditation National Aeronautic Laboratory, Bangalore National Social Science Documentation Center Network Address Translation National Board of Accreditation National Center on Bibliometrics National Chemical Laboratory National Center for Science Information National Centre for Software Technology Novell Directory Services NetBIOS Extended User Interface National Forum on Information Literacy Network File System (Protocol) National Health Service Network Interface Cards National Informatics Center Central Glass and Ceramics Research Institute, Kolkata Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow National Chemical Laboratory, Pune Central Manufacturing Technology Institute, Bangalore xxv
NICTTAS NICDAP NICDROM NICFOS NICLAI NICMAP NICMAR NICNET NICRYS NICTAS NIFM NIOS NISCAIR NISCOM NISSAT NITs NKN NODLIBNET NOS NTP OCLC OPAC OSI OUIBC PGDBM PGDDRM PGDFT PGDHRM PGDM Ahmedabad Textile Industry s Research Association, Ahmedabad National Institute of Central Drugs Research Institute, Lucknow National Information Center on CD-ROM National Information Centre for Food Science and Technology Central Leather Research Institute, Chennai National Institute Central Machine Tools Institute, Bangalore National Information Center for Material and Research National Information Center Network National Information Center of Crystallography National Information Center Textiles and Allied Subjects National Institute of Financial Management, Faridabad National Institute of Open Schooling SAARC Documentation Centre National Institute of Science Communication National Information System for Science and Technology National Institutes of Technology National Knowledge Network National Open and Distance Learner s Library and Information Network Network Operating System Network Time Protocol Online Computer Library Center Online Public Access Catalogue Open System Interconnection Oxford University India Business Centre Post Graduate Diploma in Business Management Post Graduate Diploma in Research Management Post Graduate Diploma in Foreign Trade Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management Post Graduate Diploma in Management xxvi
PKI PMLN POP3 PPP PUMBA PUNENET RBAC RGIIM RIP RLG R-PROTOCOL RTOS SALIS SAN SAS SATKAL SCONUL SCURL SDI SFTP SIB SIRNET SLA SLIM SMDS SMTP SNAP SNLP SONET Public Key Infrastructure Pune Management Library Network Post Office Protocol Point-to-Point Protocol Pune University MBA Pune Library Network Role-Based Access Control Rajiv Gandhi Indian Institute of Management, Shilong Routing Information Protocol (RIP) Research Libraries Group Routing Protocol Real-Time Operating System Society for Advancement of Library and Information Science Storage Area Network Serial Attached SCSI Satinder Kaur Ramdev Memorial Trust for Advancement of Leadership Society of College, National and University Libraries Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries Selective Dissemination Information Secure File Transfer Protocol Scientific Information Bureau Scientific and Research Network Special Library Association System for Library Information Management Switched Multimegabit Data Service Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Symbiosis National Aptitude Test Successfully Networked Public Library Synchronous Optical Network xxvii
SOUL STPI SOUs SPF SSD SSIM SSH-SFTP SSL STP TCP/IP TECLIBNET TEL TIFR TFTP TLP TSP UDCT UDP UGC UNDP UNESCO UNISIST UOP UPS UTM UTP VIA VLE VPN VSNL Software for University Libraries Software Technology Parks of India State Open Universities Shortest Path First Solid-State Drive Siva Shivani Institute of Management, Secundrabad Secure File Transfer Protocol Secure Sockets Layer Shielded Twisted Pair Internet Service Protocols/ Internet Protocol Tamil Nadu Engineering College Libraries Network Technology-Enhanced Learning Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Trivial File Transfer Protocol Transport Layer Protocol Telecommunication Service Provider University Department of Chemical Technology, Mumbai Universal Datagram Protocol University Grand Commission United Nations Development Programme United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization United Nations International Scientific Information System University of Pune Uninterruptible Power Supply Universal Transverse Mercator Unshielded Twisted Pair Virtual Interface Adapter Virtual Learning Environments Virtual Private Network Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited xxviii
WAN WBT WWW XAT XLRI Wide Area Network Web-Based Training World Wide Web Xavier Aptitude Test Xavier School of Management xxix