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Annex B: List of Abbreviations
| AHRC | Arts and Humanities Research Council, one of the seven Research Councils in the UK |
| ALPSP | Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, an international association of not-for-profit publishers, based in the UK |
| APC | Article Processing or Publishing Charge, the fee charged for publication charged by open access and hybrid journals |
| ARL | Association of Research Libraries, an association of 126 research libraries in the United States and Canada |
| BBSRC | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, one of the seven Research Councils in the UK |
| BMC | BioMedCentral, and open access publisher of over 220 journals, owned by Springer Science+ Business Media |
| BMJ | A journal, formerly called the British Medical Journal, published by the BMJ Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Medical Association |
| CC-BY | A copyright licence developed by the Creative Commons organisation under which users are allowed to share content and create derivative works, even for commercial use, so long as attribution is given |
| CEPA | Cambridge Economic Policy Associates, an economic and financial policy advisory business based in London |
| CERIF | Common European Research Information Format, a set of standards for information about different elements in the research process, developed with the support of the European Commission |
| CNRS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, the largest government research organisation in France, under the supervision of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research |
| COAR | Confederation of Open Access Repositories, an association of repository initiatives launched in 2009 |
| DASH | Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard, a central open-access repository of research by members of Harvard University |
| DfG | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, a German research funding organisation which supports research in science, engineering, and the humanities |
| DOAJ | Directory of Open Access Journals, a website maintained by Lund University which lists open access journals |
| DOI | Digital Object Identifier, a character string used to identify an object such as an electronic document uniquely. Metadata about the object is stored in association with the DOI name and may include a location, such as a URL, where the object can be found. The DOI for a document is permanent, whereas its location may change |
| ESRC | Economic and Social Research Council, one of the seven Research Councils in the UK |
| EU | European Union, the confederation of 27 member states in Europe |
