| AI | Artificial intelligence |
| ATT | Open Science and Research Initiative (Finland) |
| AUD | Australian dollar |
| CODATA | Committee on Data (International Council for Science) |
| CONACYT | National Council of Science and Technology (Mexico) |
| CSTP | Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy (OECD) |
| EOSC | European Open Science Cloud |
| EC | European Commission |
| EC-SiB | Co-ordinating team of the Biodiversity Information System (Colombia) |
| EU | European Union |
| FAIR | Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable |
| G7 | Group of Seven |
| G8 | Group of Eight |
| G20 | Group of Twenty |
| GO FAIR | GO (Global Open) Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable |
| GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility |
| GDP | Gross domestic product |
| GDPR | General Data Protection Regulation (European Union) |
| GSF | Global Science Forum (OECD) |
| GSIM | Generic Statistical Information Model |
| HEFCE | Higher Education Funding Council for England |
| H2020 | Horizon 2020 |
| ICT | Information and communication technology |
| IoT | Internet of Things |
| IP | Intellectual property |
| IPR | Intellectual property right |
| ISC | International Council for Science |
| MSIT | Ministry of Science and ICT (Korea) |
| NCDO | National Chief Data Officer |
| NIH | National Institutes of Health (United States) |
| NPOS | National Plan Open Science (Netherlands) |
| NSF | National Science Foundation (United States) |
| OAI-PMH | Open Archives Initiative-Protocol for Metadata Harvesting |
| OAIS | Open Archival Information System |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| OSTP | Office of Science and Technology Policy (United States) |
| PSI | Public-sector information |
| R&D | Research and development |
| RCUK | Research Councils UK |
| RDA | Research Data Alliance |
| SiB | Biodiversity Information System (Colombia) |
| SRC | Swedish Research Council |
| STI | Science, technology and innovation |
| SURF | Collaborative Organisation for ICT in Dutch Education and Research |
| TDM | Text and data mining |
| TOP | Transparency and Openness Promotion |
| UCT | University of Cape Town |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| US | United States |
| USD | US dollar |
| VLIR | Flemish Interuniversity Council (Belgium) |
| ZB | Zettabyte (1 ZB = 1 trillion gigabytes or 1021 bytes) |