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

ACRONYM	LONG NAME	CATEGORY	A PART OF	COUNTRY

O

| OA | OB | OC | OD | OG | OH | OI | OM | OP | OR | OS | OT | OW | OY | top |

OA back
OAC	l'Osservatorio sull'Asia Centrale / Observatory on Central Asia	body	CIRPET	Italy
OAR	Organization for Asian Research	---	---	US
OAS	Ostasiatisches Seminar der Universitaet Zuerich	meeting	U. of Zurich	Switzerland
OAS	Organization for Asian Studies	body	Waseda U.	Japan
OASIES	Organization for the Advancement of Studies of Inner Eurasian Societies	group	Columbia U.	US
OB back
OBIV	Foundation for Middle East and Balkan Studies	body	---	---	Turkey
OC back
OCHJS	Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies	body	U. of Oxford	UK
OCIS	Oceanic Conference on International Studies	meeting	U. of Queensland	Australia
OCIS	Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies	body	U. of Oxford	UK
OCREECAS	Oberlin Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies	body	Oberlin College	US
OD back
ODDDA	OWTRAD Dromographic Digital Data Archives	resource	OWTRAD	Australia
OG back
OGEA	Online Guide East Asia	resource	Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin	Germany
OGSAA	Oslo-Goeteborg School of Asian and African Studies	body	---	Norway/Sweden
OH back
OHC	Oral History Centre	body	National Archives of Singapore	Singapore
OHRJ	Orissa Historical Research Journal	periodical	Orissa State Museum	India
OI back
OI	Oriental Institute	body	U. of Chicago	US
OIC	Organization of the Islamic Conference	body	---	Saudi Arabia
OICB	Online Index of Chinese Buddhism	body	Columbia U.	US
OIOC	Oriental and India Office Collections	---	British Library	UK
OM back
OMPA	Oceania Marist Province Archives	---	---	Fiji
OP back
OPEC	Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries	body	---	---
OR back
ORASO	Online Ranking of the Asian Studies Organizations	resource	ASWWWVL	Australia
ORF	Observer Research Foundation	body	---	India
Orientalthane.com	Institute for Oriental Study, Thane	body	---	India
ORO	Vserossiyskaya Assotsiatsiya Vostokovedov / Russian Association of Scholars in Oriental Studies	group	U. of Moscow	Russia
OS back
OSA	Oriental Society of Australia	group	U. of Sydney	Australia
OSPG	Oesterreichisch Suedpazifische Gesellschaft	group	U. of Vienna	Austria
OSW / CES	Osrodek Studiow Wschodnich / Centre for Eastern Studies	body	---	Poland
ØRNAST	Øresund Network of Asian Studies	group	Lund U.	Sweden
OT back
OTAC	Observatorio del Tibet y Asia Central	---	Universitat de Barcelona	Spain
OTL	Online Tamil Lexicon	resource	IITS	Germany
OW back
OWTRAD	Old World Traditional Trade Routes Project	project	www.ciolek.com	Australia
OWZ	Orientwissenschaftliches Zentrum	body	Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg	Germany
OY back
OYCF	Overseas Young Chinese Forum	body	---	US

P

PA | PB | PC | PD | PE | PG | PH | PI | PM | PN | PO | PP | PR | PS | PT | PU | PV | PW | top |

PA back
PACA	Pacific & Asian Communication Association	group	---	South Korea and US
PACLII	Pacific News Agency Service	body	U. of South Pacific	Fiji
PACNEWS	Pacific News Agency Service	body	---	US
PACREIP	Pacific Regional Economic Integration Programme	program	---	Fiji
PAFTAD	Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series	meeting	APSEG	Australia
PAH	Division of Pacific & Asian History	body	RSPAS	Australia
PAI	Pacific Asia Inquiry	periodical	U. of Guam	US
PAIR	Portal to Asian Internet Resources	resource	U. of Wisconsin	US
PAKBO	Pakistan Bibliographical Organization	body	---	Pakistan
PALM	Program for Advanced Language Maintenance	program	CEAS	US
PAMM	Inaugural Philippines-Australia Ministerial Meeting	meeting	---	Australia
PAR	Program on Australasian Research	program	IAR	Canada
PARADISEC	Pacific And Regional Archive for DIgital Sources in Endangered Cultures	resource	---	Australia
PARC	Palestinian American Research Center	body	---	US
PASC	Philippines Australia Studies Centre	body	La Trobe U.	Australia
PASOLS	Pacific Area Senior Officer Logistics Seminar	meeting	---	US
PASSIA	Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs	group	---	Israel
PB back
PBRC	Pacific Basin Research Center	body	Soka U. of America	US
PC back
PCAPS	Program on Canada-Asia Policy Studies	program	IAR	Canada
PCF	Pacific Cooperation Foundation	body	---	New Zealand
PCIJ	Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism	body	---	Philippines
PCMCS	Program in Chinese Media and Communication Studies	program	Duke U.	US
PCRC	Pacific Concerns Resource Centre	body	---	Fiji
PD back
PDD	Pacific Development Directory	resource	---	New Zealand
PDIP	Indonesian Learned Periodicals Database	resource	ASIA ROM	Australia
PDIR	Indonesian Research Report Database	resource	ASIA ROM	Australia
PE back
PEB	Pacific Economic Bulletin	periodical	ANU	Australia
PEIA	Prosopography of Early Islamic Administration	project	JPP	Israel
PG back
PGIAR	Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology	body	U. of Kelaniya	Sri Lanka
PH back
PHA	Pacific History Association	group	---	---
PHA	Philippine Historical Association	group	---	Philippines
PHCWP	Princeton-Harvard China & the World Program	program	Princeton U.	US
PI back
PIAC	Permanent International Altaistic Conference	meeting	---	US
PIALA	Pacific Islands Association of Libraries and Archives	group	U. of Guam	US
PIANGO	Pacific Islands Association of Non-Governmental Organisations	group	---	Fiji
PIATS	Proceedings of the International Association of Tibetan Studies	---	THDL	US
PICSA	Program in Inter-Cultural Studies in Asia	program	IAR	Canada
PIDP	Pacific Islands Development Program	program	East-West Center	US
PIDS	Philippine Institute for Development Studies	body	---	Philippines
PIERC	Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center	---	U.S. Geological Survey	US
PIIA	Pakistan Institute of International Affairs	body	---	Pakistan
PIMA	Pacific Islands Museums Association / Association des Musees des Iles du Pacifique	group	---	Vanuatu
PIMS	Pacific Islands Monograph Series	periodical	U. Hawaii	US
PIPS	Pak Institute for Peace Studies	---	---	Pakistan
PIPSA	Pacific Islands Political Studies Association	group	---	Australia
PIPSS	Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies	periodical	---	UK/France
PISAI	Pontificio Istituto di Studi Arabi ed'Islamistica	---	---	Italy
PITA	Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association	group	---	Fiji
PM back
PMJS	Premodern Japanese Studies	group	Meiji Gakuin U.	Japan
PMW	Pacific Media Watch	resource	---	NZ
PMW	Palestinian Media Watch	resource	---	Israel
PN back
PNC	Pacific Neighborhood Consortium	group	Academia Sinica	Taiwan
PNHS	Philippine National Historical Society	group	---	Philippines
PNOIS	Phillippine National Observatory on the Information Society	group	---	Philippines
PO back
PolyU	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	---	---	China
PP back
PPJ	People's Plan Japonesia	---	---	Japan
PPP	Pacific People's Partnership	---	---	Canada
PR back
PRA	Pacific Research Archives	resource	ANU	Australia
PRASADA	Practice, Research and Advancement in South Asian Design and Architecture	project	BASAS	UK
PRC	Pacific Research Collections	---	ANU	Australia
PRDLA	Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance	group	---	Hong Kong
PREL	Pacific Resources for Education and Learning	resource	---	US
PRG	Punjab Research Group	body	---	UK
PRI	Policy Research Institute	body	Ministry of Finance	Japan
PRIDE	Pacific Regional Initiatives for the Delivery of basic Education	---	U. of the South Pacific	Fiji
PRISM	Pacific Regional Information SysteM	---	SPC	New Caledonia
PRISM	Pacific Roundtable on Industry, Society and Management	---	---	US
PROMAP	Projet de Documentation et de recherche sur les missionnaires en Asie-Pacifique	project	U. de Provence	France
PS back
PSA	Project South Asia	resource	South Dakota State U.	Australia
PSAA	Philippines Studies Association Australasia	group	ASAA	Australia
PSAS	Politics of South Asia Specialist Group	group	Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom	UK
PSCJ	Philippine Studies Conference of Japan	meeting	---	Japan
PSCO	Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins	meeting	---	US
PSD	Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Project	project	U. of Pennsylvania	US
PSEAL	Papers in Southeast Asian Linguistics	resource	RSPAS	Australia
PSG	Philippines Studies Group	group	AAS	US
PSI	Pacific Studies Initiative	project	U. of Hawaii	US
PSI	Pacific Science Intercongress	meeting	---	---
PSWWWVL	Pacific Studies WWW Virtual Library	resource	RSPAS	Australia
PT back
PTC	Pacific Theological College	body	---	Fiji
PU back
PUKAR	Partners for Urban Knowledge Action & Research, Mumbai	---	---	India
PV back
PVS	Polynesian Voyaging Society	group	---	US
PW back
PWJ	Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies	periodical	IBS	US
PWTN	People's Watch - Tamil Nadu	resource	---	India

R

| RA | RC | RE | RF | RG | RH | RI | RM | RR | RS | RU | top |

RA back
RAD	Russian Analytical Digest	periodical	RES	Switzerland
RAI	Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale	---	---	---
RAJ	Russian Association of Japanologists	group	---	Russia
RAL	Research in Anthropology and Linguistics	---	U. of Auckland	New Zealand
RASA	Recent Art of South Asia	---	---	UK
RAS	Royal Asiatic Society	group	---	UK
RAS-KB	Royal Asiatic Society - Korea Branch	group	RAS	South Korea
RASHKB	Royal Asiatic Society - Hong Kong Branch	group	RAS	HK
RAS SL	Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka	group	RAS	Sri Lanka
RATS	Regional Antiterrorism Structure	---	SCO	---
RC back
RCCPB	Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business	body	EASC	US
RCEP	Russian and Central Eurasian Studies Program	program	Wittenberg College	US
RCMRC	Research Center on Metropolitan Regions of China	body	Shanghai Jiao Tong U.	China
RE back
REDIAO	Red de Investigacion Iberoamericana en Estudios de Asia Oriental	group	---	Spain
REECA	Russian, East European, and Central Asian Collections	resource	CREECA	US
REP	Revista Espanola del Pacifico	---	---	Spain
RES	Russian and Eurasian Security Network	---	ETH Zurich	Switzerland
ResearchSEA	Asia Research News	resource	---	UK
RET	Revue d'Etudes Tibetaines	periodical	U. of Cambridge	UK
RETL	Reeducation Through Labor	---	---	China
RF back
RFA	Radio Free Asia	---	---	US
RG back
RGICS	Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies	body	Rajiv Gandhi Foundation	India
RI back
RIAP	Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific	body	U. of Sydney	Australia
RICAS	Research & Information Center for Asian Studies	---	U. of Tokyo	Japan
RICAE	Red de Investigacion de Comunidades Asiaticas en Espana	group	---	Spain
RIEAO	Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios de Asia Oriental	periodical	REDIAO	Spain
RIFIAS	Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies	---	Indiana U.	US
RIJS	Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies	body	Harvard U.	US
RIMAS	Rotterdam Institute of Modern Asian Studies	---	Erasmus U., Rotterdam	The Netherlands
RIPS	Research Institute for Peace and Security	---	---	Japan
RISA	Religion in South Asia Section of the American Academy of Religion	---	---	US
RISA-L	Official email list of RISA	resource	RISA	US
RM back
RMA	Rubin Museum of Art: Art of the Himalayas	body	---	US
RMAP	Resource Management in Asia-Pacific Program	program	RSPAS	Australia
RR back
RRI	Rethinking Religion in India	meeting	---	Belgium
RS back
RSEA	Committee on Regional Studies - East Asia	---	Harvard U.	US
RSG	Rajasthan Studies Group	group	Columbia U.	US
RSIS	S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies	---	Nanyang Technological U.	Singapore
RSPAS	Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies	---	ANU	Australia
RU back
RU-CAAS	Rikkyo University Centre for Asian Area Studies	body	Rikkyo U.	Japan
RUCTA	Research Unit on Cultures and Technologies in Asia	body	Monash U.	Australia
RUMiCI	Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia	project	RSPAS	Australia
RUSSIC	Research Unit for the Study of Societies in Change	body	Curtin U.	Australia

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