Acronyms Used by Asian / Pacific Studies' Scholars:
a Dictionary

ACRONYM	LONG NAME	CATEGORY	A PART OF	COUNTRY

M

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MA back
MAAP	Multimedia Art Asia Pacific	body	---	Australia
MABC	Malaysia Australia Business Council	body	---	Australia
MACASBE	Macau Association of Business Ethics	group	MRI	Macao/China
MAI	Monash Asia Institute	body	Monash U.	Australia
MAINS	Master of Arts in Inter-Asia NGO Studies	program	SungKongHoe U.	South Korea
MAKAIAS	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata	body	---	India
MAP	Maison Asie Pacifique	body	U. de Provence	France
MAP	Medieval Association of the Pacific	group	---	US
MAPEAL	Macao Association for the Promotion of Exchange between Asia-Pacific and Latin America	group	---	Macao/China
MAPS	Collaborative Master's Program in Asia-Pacific Studies	program	U. of Toronto	Canada
MAR / AAS	Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies	meeting	AAS	US
MARC	Modern Asia Research Centre	body	U. Geneva	Switzerland
MARC	Richard F. Taitano Micronesia Area Research Center	body	U. of Guam	US
MARG	Media-Asia Research Group	group	Curtin U. of Technology	Australia
MARLC	Melbourne Asian Research Libraries Consortium	group	---	Australia
MAS	Modern Asian Studies	periodical	Cambridge Journals	UK
MASS	Modeling Ancient Settlement Systems	project	OI	US
MB back
MBRAS	Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society	group	---	Malaysia
MC back
MCA	Muslim Civilisations Abstracts	---	ISMC	UK
MCAA	Midwest Conference [of The Association for Asian Studies](aka Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs)	meeting	AAS	US
MCIS	Munk Centre for International Studies	body	U. of Toronto	Canada
MCJLE	Melbourne Centre for Japanese Language Education	body	Monash U.	Australia
MCLC	Modern Chinese Literature and Culture Resource Center	resource	Ohio State U.	US
MCPA	Mansfield Center for Pacific Affairs	body	---	US
MD back
MDRC	Mongolian Development Research Center	body	---	Mongolia
ME back
MEA	Study Group for Musics of East Asia	group	---	Taiwan
MEAA	Museum of East Asia Art	body	---	UK
MEARC	Modern East Asia Research Centre	body	Leiden U.	The Netherlands
MEAS	Middle Eastern and African Studies	body	U. Alberta	Canada
MEAS	Modern East Asian Studies	body	Goethe U. Frankfurt	Germany
MEC	Middle East Center	body	U. Pennsylvania	US
MEC	Middle East Center	body	U. of Washington	US
MEC	Middle East Center for Peace, Culture, and Development	body	Georgia State U.	US
MEC	Middle East Center	body	U. of Utah	US
MECA	Middle East & Central Asia Politics, Economics, and Society Conference	meeting	U. of Utah	US
MECACS	Institute of Middle East, Central Asia and Caucasus Studies	body	U. St. Andrews	UK
MECAS	Middle East & Central Asian Studies	resource	National Information Services Corporation	US
MEF	Malaysian Employers Federation	group	---	Malaysia
MEF	Middle East Forum	body	---	US
MEF	Mount Everest Foundation	body	---	UK
MEI	Middle East Institute	body	---	US
MEI	Middle East Institute	body	Columbia U.	US
MEIS	Research and Educational Project for Middle East and Islamic Studies	project	Tokyo U. of Foreign Studies (TUFS)	Japan
MEISP	Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program	program	Indiana U.	US
MELAM	Eclectic Links Around Malayalam	resource	Princeton U.	US
MELCOM	Middle East Libraries Committee	group	NACIRA	UK
MEM	Middle East Medievalists	group	Southern Connecticut State U.	US
MEMP	Middle East Microform Project	project	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	US
MEMRI	Middle East Media Research Institute	body	---	US
MEMRI TV	Middle East Media Research Institute TV Monitor Project	project	MEMRI	US
MENALIB	Middle East Virtual Library	---	U. Halle	Germany
MENAFN	Middle East and North Africa Financial Network	---	---	---
MENARG	Middle East and North Africa Research Group	group	U. Gent	Belgium
MENIC	Middle East Network Information Centre	resource	U. of Texas	US
MERC	Middle East Research Competition	body	---	Lebanon
MERIA	Middle East Review of International Affairs	periodical	IDC Herzliya	Israel
MERIP	Middle East Research and Information Project	project	---	US
MERJ	Middle East Research Journals Project	project	---	US
MERO	Middle East Report Online	---	MERIP	US
MES	Department of Middle Eastern Studies	body	U. of Texas at Austin	US
MESA	Middle East Studies Association	group	---	US
MESARC	Middle East & South Asia Research Cluster	body	U. of California, Davis	US
MESAS	Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies	body	Emory U.	US
MESC	Middle East Studies Center	body	U. Ghent	Belgium
MESC	Middle Eastern Studies Center	body	Ohio State U.	US
MESH	Middle East Strategy at Harvard	project	Harvard U.	US
MESP	Middle East Studies Program	program	Council for Christian Colleges & Universities	US
MEST / MESP	Middle East Studies Program of the King Fahd Center	program	U. of Arkansas	US
MF back
MFEA	Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities	---	---	Sweden
MH back
MHM	Moluccan Historical Museum / Museum Maluku (MUMA)	body	---	The Netherlands
MI back
MIALS	Melbourne Institute of Asian Languages and Societies	body	U. of Melbourne	Australia
MIASU	Mongolia & Inner Asia Studies Unit	body	U. of Cambridge	UK
MICSEM	Micronesian Seminar	body	---	Federated States of Micronesia
MIDEO	Melanges de l'Institut Dominicaine des Etudes Orientales du Caire	periodical	IDEO	Egypt
MIDS	Madras Institute of Development Studies	body	---	India
MIER	Malaysian Institute of Economic Research	body	---	Malaysia
MII / IIM	Macau International Institute / Instituto Internacionale Macau	---	---	Macao/China
MINPAKU	National Museum of Ethnology	---	---	Japan
MIPP	Microfilming of Indian Publications Project	project	DSAL	US
MJ back
MJF	Maison Franco-Japonaise / French-Japanese House	---	---	Japan
MJHW	Modern Japanese History Workshop	---	Waseda U.	Japan
MK back
MKS	Mon-Khmer Studies Journal	periodical	SEALANG	US
MO back
MOA	Korean/English Parrallel Concordance	---	Monash U.	Australia
MOI	Vereniging voor de studie van het Midden-oosten en de islam	group	Leiden U.	The Netherlands
MOL	Monsoon On Line	resource	Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology	India
MONIC	Macao Network Information Centre	body	UM	China
MP back
MPAC	Muslim Public Affairs Council	group	---	US
MPAJ	Muslim Public Affairs Journal	periodical	MPAC	US
MR back
MRI	Macau Ricci Institute	---	---	Macao/China
MS back
MSB	Malaysia / Singapore / Brunei Studies Group	group	AAS	US
MSG	Maharashtra Studies Group	group	AAS	US
MSSP	Micronesia and South Pacific Program	program	U. of Oregon, Eugene	Macao/China
MT back
MTC	Mandarin Training Center	body	National Taiwan Normal U.	Taiwan
MU back
MUCMENAS	Macquarie University: Centre for Middle East and North African Studies	body	Macquarie U.	Australia
MUMA	Museum Maluku / Moluccan Historical Museum (MHM)	body	---	The Netherlands
MV back
MVCLC	Morphological Variation and Change in Languages of the Caucasus	---	---	---

N

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NA back
NAAAP	National Association of Asian American Professionals	group	---	US
NAAN	Northeast Asian Academic Network formerly: Colloquium on Northeast Asian Studies	group	U. of Toyama	Japan
NAATA	National Asian American Telecommunications Association	group	---	US
NACIRA	National Committee for Information Resources on Asia (formerly: National Council on Orientalist Library Resources, NCOLR)	group	---	UK
NACS	Nordic Association for China Studies	group	---	Finland
NAEC	Northeast Asia Economic Conference	meeting	ERINA	Japan
NAECJK	North America and Europe East Asian Collection Database	resource	CEAL	US
NAFA	Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts	body	---	Singapore
NAI	National Archives of India	body	---	India
NAJAKS	Nordic Association for Japanese and Korean Studies	group	---	Denmark
NAJS	Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Society	group	CEAS	---
NALSP	National Asian Languages and Studies in Schools Program	program	Dept. of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations	Australia
NAPABA	National Asian Pacific American Bar Association	group	---	US
NAPES	National Asia Pacific Economic and Scientific Database	resource	ANU	Australia
NAPH	National Association of Professors of Hebrew	group	---	US
NAS	National Archives of Singapore	body	---	Singapore
NASA	Northeast Asian Studies Academy of Jilin University	body	Jilin U.	China
NASA	Nordic Association for South Asian Studies	group	---	Norway
NASEAS	Nordic Association of Southeast Asian Studies	group	---	Denmark
NATMO	National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organisation	body	---	India
NATSA	North American Taiwan Studies Association	group	---	US
NB back
NBN	Niue Business News	periodical	---	Niue
NBR	National Bureau of Asian Research	body	---	US
NBS	National Bureau of Statistics of China	body	Beijing	China
NC back
NCC	North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources	group	---	US
NCL	National Central Library - National Digital Library	body	---	Taiwan
NCEEER	National Council for Eurasian and East European Research	group	---	US
NCEIS	National Centre of Excellence for Islamic Studies	body	U. of Melbourne	Australia
NCKTPA	National Centre for Korean Traditional Performing Arts	body	---	South Korea
NCJLT	National Council of Japanese Language Teachers	sciety	---	US
NCNK	National Committee on North Korea	group	---	US
NCOLR	National Council on Orientalist Library Resources	group	---	UK
NCSAS	National Centre for South Asia Studies	body	Monash U.	Australia
NCTA	National Consortium for Teaching about Asia	group	---	US
ND back
NDAP	National Digital Archives Program	program	Academia Sinica	Taiwan
NDL	National Diet Library	resource	---	Japan
NE back
NEA	Northeast Asia Program	program	RSPAS	Australia
NEAAS	New England Conference [of The Association for Asian Studies]	meeting	AAS	US
NEAC	Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies	group	AAS	US
NEAEF	Northeast Asia Economic Forum	body	---	US
NEALRC	National East Asian Languages Resource Center	resource	Ohio State U	US
NEAS	Near East Archaeological Society	group	Andrews U.	US
NEAS	Northeast Asian Studies - Curriculum Clearinghouse Initiative	program	Monterey Institute of International Studies	US
NEASIA	Nukleo de Estudos Asiaticos	body	Universidade de Brasilia	Brasil
NEAT	Network of East Asian Think-tanks	group	---	Japan
NECEF	Near East Cultural and Educational Foundation of Canada	body	---	Canada
NELC	Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations	---	Harvard U.	US
NELC	Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations	---	Yale U.	US
NELC	Near Eastern Languages and Cultures	---	Indiana U.	US
NELC	Near Eastern Languages and Cultures	---	OI	US
NELC	Near Eastern Languages and Cultures	---	US
NELC	Near Eastern Languages and Civilization	---	U. of Washington	US
NES	Near Eastern Studies	---	U. of Arizona	US
NES	Near Eastern Studies	---	U. of Michigan	US
NG back
NGJS	Nederlands Genootschaap voor Japanse Studien	---	---	The Netherlands
NGMCP	Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project (formerly: Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project, NGMPP)	project	NRC	Germany Nepal
NI back
NIAP	National Institute for Asia and the Pacific	body	ANU	Australia
NIAS	Nordic Institute of Asian Studies	body	U. of Copenhagen	Denmark
NIAS	National Institute of Advanced Studies	---	---	India
NIAS-KNAW	Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences	body	---	The Netherlands
NICS	National Institute of Chinese Studies	body	WREAC	UK
NIJL	National Institute of Japanese Literature	body	---	Japan
NIJS	National Institute of Japanese Studies	body	WREAC	UK
NINO	Netherlands Institute for the Near East	body	Leiden U.	The Netherlands
NIPS	National Institute of Pakistan Studies	body	Quaid-i-Azam U., Islamabad	Pakistan
NIRA	National Institute for Research Advancement	body	---	Japan
NIRIM	National Integration and Regionalism in Indonesia and Malaysia	---	Australian Defence Force Academy	Australia
NISN	Nordic Indonesia Studies Network	group	---	Denmark
NIT	Namgyal Institute of Tibetology	body	---	India
NJ back
NJAHS	National Japanese American Historical Society	group	---	US
NJECD	NTC / Kenkyusha New Japanese-English Character Dictionary	resource	---	Japan
NK back
NKIDP	North Korea International Documentation Project	project	Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars	US
NKR	North Korean Review	periodical	U. of Detroit	US
NL back
NLC	National Library of China	body	---	China
NLDC	National Library and Documentation Centre	body	---	Sri Lanka
NM back
NMCA	Network on Migration in Kyrgyzstan and Central Asia	project	U. of Toyama	Japan
NMELRC	National Middle East Language Resource Center	body	Brigham Young U.	US
NMES	Near and Middle Eastern Studies	body	U. of Oxford	UK
NMM	National Mission for Manuscripts	---	---	India
NMML	Nehru Memorial Museum & Library	---	---	India
NN back
NNCS	Nordic Network for Chinese Studies	group	---	---
NO back
NOFSA	Norsk Forum for Sor-Asia / The Norwegian Forum for South Asia	group	Oslo U.	Norway
NONESA	Nordic Newsletter for Southeast Asian Studies	periodical	NASEAS	Denmark
NOUS-IS	National Online Undergraduate Seminar - Indonesian Studies	resource	U. of Sunshine Coast / Flinders U.	Australia
NP back
NPT	New Perspectives on Turkey	---	Bogazici U.	Turkey
NR back
NRB	Netaji Research Bureau	body	---	India
NRC	Nepal Research Centre	body	Universitaet Hamburg	Germany / Nepal
NRI	Nomura Research Institute	---	---	Japan
NRI	Needham Research Institute	body	Cambridge U.	UK
NS back
NSA	Nepal Studies Association	group	---	US
NSC	Nepal Study Center	body	U. New Mexico	US
NSE	National Stock Exchange of India	body	---	India
NSM	Nordisk selskap for Midtaustenstudiar / Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies	group	U. of Bergen	Norway
NT back
NTA	Nusa Tenggara Association	group	---	Australia
NTS-Asia	Consortium of Non-Traditional Security Studies in Asia	group	RSIS	Singapore
NTSC	National Thai Studies Centre	body	ANU	Australia
NV back
NVOS	Nederlandse Vereniging voor Oceanie Studies	group	---	The Netherlands
NW back
NWO	Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek	---	---	The Netherlands
NWRCSEAS	Northwest Regional Consortium for Southeast Asian Studies	group	IAR	Canada
NY back
NYCAS	New York Conference [of The Association for Asian Studies]	meeting	AAS	US
NZ back
NZASIA	New Zealand Asian Studies Society	group	---	New Zealand
NZDL	New Zealand Digital Library Project	project	---	New Zealand
NZETC	New Zealand Electronic Text Centre	body	---	New Zealand
NZJAS	New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies	periodical	NZASIA	New Zealand
NZSA	New Zealand Studies Association (formerly: New Zealand Study Group, NZSG)	group	---	UK

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