| AIBA | Agricultural Information Bank of Asia |
| AGLINET | Agricultural Libraries Network |
| AGRIASIA | Current bibliography of Southeast Asian agricultural literature |
| AGRINDEX | monthly printed bibliography of AGRIS, stopped in 1995 |
| AGRIS | International information system for the agricultural sciences and technology |
| AGRIS AP | AGRIS application profile |
| AGROVOC | a specific controlled agricultural vocabulary |
| APU | AGRIS Processing Unit |
| BT | broader term (AGROVOC) |
| CDS/ISIS | Computerized Documentation System/Integrated Set of Information Systems |
| CIAT | International Center for Tropical Agriculture |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| FAOSTAT | FAO online multilingual statistical databases; http://apps.fao.org/ |
| FORSPA | Forestry Research Support Programme for Asia and the Pacific |
| FTP | file transfer protocol |
| HTML | hypertext markup language |
| ICT | information and communication technology |
| IDRC | International Development Research Centre, Canada |
| IS-A | relation name “Is a” |
| ISO 2709 | ISSN standard used in the library world for bibliographic records |
| KU | Kasetsart University |
| NAiST | Natural Language Processing and Intelligent Information System Technology |
| NLP | natural language processing |
| NT | narrower term (AGROVOC) |
| OCR | optical character recognition |
| SDI | selective dissemination of information |
| SEARCA | Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture |
| STREDEO | Multimedia Multilanguage Document Storage, Retrieval and Dissemination for E-Organization |
| XML | extensible markup language |
