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

ACRONYM	LONG NAME	CATEGORY	A PART OF	COUNTRY

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SAAF	Southeast Asia Art Foundation Archive	resource	University of Michigan	US
SAAG	South Asia Analysis Group	---	---	India
SAALG	South Asia Archive & Library Group	group	NACIRA	UK
SAAM	Seattle Asian Art Museum	---	---	US
SAARC	South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation	group	---	---
SABER	South Asian Bureau of Economic Research	group	The Australian National U.	Australia
SAC	South Asia Council (aka Canadian Asian Studies Association's South Asia Council, CASA-SAC)	group	CASA	Canada
SAC	South Asia Council [of the Association for Asian Studies]	group	AAS	US
SAC	Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre	body	---	Thailand
SACAP	South Asia Cooperative Acquisitions Program	program	Library of Congress	US
SACP	South Asia Centre for Peace	body	---	Pakistan
SACPAN	South Asia Conference of the Pacific Northwest	meeting	U. of British Columbia	Canada
SACU	Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding	group	---	UK
SACW	South Asia Citizens Web	resource	---	France
SAF	South Asia Foundation	body	---	India
SAFDIC	South Asia Foundation Documentation and Information Centre	body	SAF	India
SAFHR	South Asian Forum for Human Rights	body	---	Nepal
SAGAR	South Asia Graduate Research Journal	periodical	U. of Texas, Austin	US
SAGSC	South Asia Graduate Student Conference	meeting	U. of Chicago	US
SAHC	South Asian History and Culture	periodical	---	UK
SAHRDC	South Asian Human Rights Documentation Center	body	---	---
SAHSA	Society for Advancing the History of South Asia	group	---	US
SAI	South Asian Institute	body	Columbia U.	US
SAI	Suedasien-Institut	body	U. of Heidelberg	Germany
SAIA	Sino Asian Institute of America	body	---	US
SAIM	South Asia Independence Movement Project	project	SASC	US
SAIR	South Asia Intelligence Review	periodical	SATP	India
SAIS	Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies	body	Johns Hopkins U.	US
SAJ	South Asian Journal	periodical	Harvard U.	US
SAJA	South Asian Journalists Association	group	---	US
SALA	South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable,	meeting	---	US/ Germany
SALA	Southeast Asian Linguistics Archives	resource	SEALANG	US
SALC	South Asian Languages and Civilization	body	U. of Chicago	US
SALIDAA	South Asian Diaspora Literature and Arts Archive	---	---	UK
SALNAC	South Asia Library News and Queries	---	U. of Virginia	US
SALON	South Asian Linguistics On Line  [mailing list	resource	---	US
SALPAT	South Asia Language Pedagogy and Technology	body	U. of Chicago	US
SALRC	South Asia Language Resource Center	body	U. of Chicago	US
SALS	South-East Asian Linguistic Studies	resource	RSPAS	Australia
SALT	South Asian Life & Times	periodical	---	India
SALTA	South Asian Language Teachers Association	group	---	US
SAMAJ	South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal	periodical	Association pour la Recherche sur l'Asie du Sud	France
SAMP	South Asia Microform Project	project	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	US
SAN	SouthAsiaNet	---	PIPS	Pakistan
SANEI	South Asia Network of Economic Research Institutes	group	---	Pakistan
SANDEE	South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics	group	---	Nepal
SANSAD	South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy	group	---	Canada
SAR	South Asia Research	periodical	---	---
SARAI	South Asia Resource Access on the Internet	resource	Columbia U.	US
SARAM/ CESRAN	Stratejik Arastirmalar ve Analiz Merkezi/ Centre for Strategic Research and Analysis	body	cesran.org	Turkey
SARCAJC	South Asian Research Centre for Advertisement, Journalism and Cartoons	body	---	India
SARD	South Asia Resources Database	resource	Curtin U.	Australia
SARDS2	South Asia Research Documentation Services 2	resource	Martin-Luther U.	Germany
SARI	Societe d'Activite et de Recherche sur les mondes Indiens	group	Cergy-Pontoise U.	France
SARII	South Asia Research and Information Institute	body	---	US
SARIT	Search and Retrieval of Indic Texts	resource	---	UK
SARN	South Asia Research Network on Gender, Law and Governance	group	Social Science Research Council	US
SARTrain	South Asia Research Training	group	ACRSN	Denmark
SARU	South Asia Research Unit	body	Curtin U.	Australia
SARVA	South Asian Residual Vocabulary Assemblage Project	project	ILCA	Japan
SAS	Centre for South Asian Studies	body	U. of Toronto	Canada
SAS	Society for Armenian Studies, Inc.	group	California State U., Fresno	US
SAS	South Asian Survey	periodical	---	---
SAS	South Asian Society	group	Yale U.	US
SASA	South Asian Studies Association of Australia	group	ASAA	Australia
SASA	South Asian Studies Association (formerly: South Asian Studies Alliance, SASA)	group	---	US
SASC	South Asian Studies in China	body	CASAS	China
SASC	South Asian Studies Council	group	Yale U.	US
SASCV	South Asian Society of Criminology and Victimology	group	---	India
SASI	Southeast Asian Serials Index	resource	The Australian National University	Australia
SASIALIT	Literature of South Asia and the Indian diaspora: mailing list	resource	Rice U.	US
SASIN	South Asian Studies in the North	meeting	U. of Leeds, Manchester, Sheffield and Lancaster	UK
SASLI	South Asia Summer Language Institute	program	U. of Wisconsin	US
SASNET	Swedish South Asian Studies Network	group	---	Sweden
SASP	South Asian Studies Program	program	Rutgers U.	US
SASRF	South Asian Social Researchers' Forum	body	---	UK
SASS	Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences	body	---	China
SASSS	South Asia Studies Summer School	program	CAP	Australia
SASSU	South Asian Strategic Stability Unit	body	U. Bradford	UK
SAST	South Asia Studies	body	U. Pennsylvania	US
SAT	Text Database of the Taisho Tripitaka	resource	ACBUT	Japan
SATOE	South Asia Through Official Eyes	---	U. of Oxford	UK
SATP	South Asia Terrorism Portal	resource	Institute for Conflict Management, New Delhi	India
SAWNET	South Asian Women's NETwork	group	U. of Maryland	US
SAWTEE	South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics & Environment	resource	---	Nepal
SAV	Southeast Asia Visions - a Collection of Historic Travel Narratives	resource	Cornell U.	US
SAVIFA	Die Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Suedasien	resource	U. of Heidelberg	Germany
SB back
SBL	Society of Biblical Literature	group	---	US
SBBR	SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research	periodical	SOAS	UK
SC back
SCAD	Survey on Conservation of Asian Documents	project	U. of Oxford	UK
SCAPE	Singapore Centre for Applied and Policy Economics	body	National U. of Singapore	Singapore
SCBS	Stanfor Center for Buddhist Studies	body	ICA	US
SCC	Science and Civilisation in China	---	NRI	UK
SCCS	School of Contemporary Chinese Studies	body	U. of Nottingham	UK
SCFI	Society for the Confluence of Festivals in India	group	---	India
SCHR	Scottish Centre for Himalayan Research	body	U. of Aberdeen, Scotland	UK
SCTIW	Society of Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World	group	---	UK
SCJS	Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies	group	---	US
SCMP	South China Morning Post	periodical	---	China
SCO	Shanghai Cooperation Organization	body	---	China
SD back
SDC	Support Democracy in China	---	---	US
SDSC	Strategic and Defence Studies Centre	body	RSPAS	Australia
SE back
SeSaMO	Societa per gli Studi sul Medio Oriente	group	Universita di Catania	Italy
SEA-IMAGES	Synergy Europe-Asia	group	ASEF	Singapore
SEAA	Southeast Asian Affairs	periodical	ISEAS	Singapore
SEAA	Society for East Asian Anthropology	group	American Anthropological Association	US
SEAA	Society for East Asian Archaeology (formerly: East Asian Archaeology Network, EAAN)	group	---	---
SEAArch	South Asian Archaeology Newsblog	resource	---	Singapore
SEAC	Canadian Council of Southeast Asian Studies	group	CASA	Canada
SEAC	Southeast Asia Center	body	U. of Washington, Seattle	US
SEAC	Southeast Asia Council	group	AAS	US
SEACOM	Southeast Asia Communication Centre	body	---	Germany
SEACSN	Southeast Asian Conflict Studies Network	group	---	Malaysia
SEADL	Southeast Asia Digital Library	resource	Northern Illinois U. Libraries	US
SEA-EAT	South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog	resource	---	tsunamihelp.blogspot.com
SEAGA	Southeast Asian Geography Association	group	---	Singapore
SEAHC	Southeast Asia: History and Culture / Tonan Ajia: Rekishi to Bunka	periodical	JSSEAS	Japan
SEAHTP	South East Asian Historical Texts Project	project	---	UK
SEAiT	Southeast Asian Images and Text	resource	U. Wisconsin	US
SEAL	Social Standards Exchange of Experience in Southeast Asia and Practical Learning	program	---	US
SEALANG	Language Reference Materials for Southeast Asia	resource	Department of Education	US
SEALG	Southeast Asia Library Group	group	NACIRA	UK
SEAM	Southeast Asia Microform Project	project	Center for Research Libraries (CRL)	US
SEAMEO	Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization	body	---	---
SEAP	Southeast Asia Program	program	Cornell U.	US
SEAP	Southeast Asia Publications	---	Northern Illinois U.	US
SEAPSNet	Southeast Asia Publications	---	SIIA	Singapore
SEAR	South East Asia Research	---	SOAS	UK
SEAR	South-East Asia Regional Office	---	World Health Organisation	---
SEARAC	Southeast Asia Resource Action Center	body	---	US
SEARC	Southeast Asia Research Centre	body	City U. of Hong Kong	HK
SEARCA	Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture	body	U. of the Philippines at Los Banos	Philippines
SEARP	South-East Asia Rainforest Research Programme	research	The Royal group	UK
SEAS	School of East Asian Studies	body	U. Sheffield	UK
SEAS	Society for South-East Asian Studies / Gesellschaft fuer Suedostasienwissenschaften	group	Vienna	Austria
SEASSI	Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute	program	---	US
SEASREP	Southeast Asian Studies Regional Exchange Programme	program	---	Philippines/Japan
SEATO	Southeast Asia Treaty Organization	body	---	---
SEC / AAS	Southeast Conference [of The Association for Asian Studies]	meeting	AAS	US
SEECHAC	Societe Europeenne pour l'Etude des Civilisations de l'Himalaya et de l'Asie Centrale / European Society for Studies of Central Asia and Himalayan Regions	group	---	France
SECSOR	Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion	group	American Academy of Religion	US
SEECR	Southeastern Early China Roundtable	group	Berea College	US
SEER	Scholars Engaged in Electronic Resources	project	U. Frankfurt	Germany
SEHK	Hong Kong Stock Exchange	body	---	Hong Kong
SEJJIR	Shingetsu Electronic Journal of Japanese-Islamic Relations	periodical	Shingetsu Institute	Japan
SELAI	Indonesian-Australian Language Exchange Society	group	The Australian National U.	Australia
SENAS	Southern Europe Network of Asian Studies	group	---	France
SEPHIS	South-South Exchange Programme for Research on the History of Development	program	---	The Netherlands
SERAS	Southeast Review of Asian Studies	periodical	---	US
SERI	Socio-Economic and Environmental Research Institute	body	---	Malaysia
SERI	Samsung Economic Research Institute	body	---	South Korea
SES	Stock Exchange of Singapore	body	---	Singapore
SESRTCIC	Social, Economic and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries	body	---	Turkey
SETA	Siyaset, Ekonomi ve Toplum Arastirmalari Vakfi / Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research	body	---	Turkey
SF back
SFEJ	Societe Francaise des Etudes Japonaises	group	College de France	France
SG back
SGMOIK / SSMOCI	Schweizerische Gesellschaft Mittlerer Osten und Islamische Kulturen / Societe Suisse Moyen Orient et Civilisation Islamique / Societa Svizzera Medio Oriente e Civilta Islamica	group	---	Switzerland
SGRA	Sekiguchi GlobalÊResearch Association	group	AISF	Japan
SGX	Singapore Exchange	body	---	Singapore
SH back
SHAC	Second Historical Archives of China	body	State Archives Bureau	China
SHAN	Sinologie Heidelberg Alumni Netzwerk / Sinology Heidelberg Alumni Network	group	Heidelberg U	Germany
SHAPS	School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies	body	U. of Hawaii	US
SHARP	Shastri Applied Research Project	project	SICI	Canada
SHCS	Society for Hindu-Christian Studies	group	U. of Calgary	Canada
SHEHR	Network on Comparative Urban Landscapes in the Middle East and South Asia	group	---	US
SI back
SIAL	Sana'a Institute for the Arabic Language	body	---	Yemen
SIAP	United Nations Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific	body	ESCAP	Japan
SICI	Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute / L'Institut Indo-Canadien Shastri	body	---	Canada
SICRI	Small Island Cultures Research Initiative	project	Macquarie U.	Australia
SIEF	Societe Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore / International Society for Ethnology and Folklore	group	Meertens Institute, Amsterdam	The Netherlands
SIFL	Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages	body	---	Uzbekistan
SIIA	Singapore Institute of International Affairs	body	---	Singapore
SIIS	Shanghai Institute for International Studies	body	---	China
SIKS	Strategic Initiatives for Korean Studies	project	AKS	South Korea
SIL	Summer Institute of Linguistics	body		Philippines
SIMEX	Singapore International Monetary Exchange	body	---	Singapore
SINHAS	Studies in Nepali History and Society	body	Emory U.	US
SIPR	Society for Indian Philosophy and Religion	group	Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR	US
SIRD	Strategic Information and Research Development Center	body	GB Gerakbudaya Enterprise Sdn Bhd, Selangor	Malaysia
SIS	Suomen Itämainen Seura	---	Helsinki U.	Finland
SITE	Search for International Terrorist Entities	project	---	US
SJ back
SJEAA	Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs	periodical	Stanford U.	US
SJEAS	Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies	periodical	AEAS	South Korea
SK back
SKAS	Society of Korean-American Scholars	group	---	US
SKY	A group of the top three universities in S. Korea: Seoul National U., Korea U. and Yonsei U.	---	---	South Korea
SL back
SLABS	Sri Lanka Association for Buddhist Studies	group	---	Sri Lanka
SLO	Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Orientali	body	U. Bologna	Italy
SLTP	Sri Lanka Tripitaka Project	project	---	Sri Lanka
SM back
SMAP	Socio-genetic Marginalisation Programme	---	IIAS	The Netherlands
SMC Online	National University of Singapore Library Databases	resource	RMIT, Melbourne	Australia
SMI	Senter for Midtausten- og islamske studiar / Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies	body	U. of Bergen	Norway
SMPD	Te Pua Wananga ki te Ao / School of Maori and Pacific Development	body	U. of Waikato	New Zealand
SMU	Singapore Management University	body	---	Singapore
SMVO	Studienschwerpunkt "Moderner Vorderer Orient"	program	U. Erlangen-Nuernberg	Germany
SN back
SNTS	Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas	---	---	UK
SO back
SOAS	School of Oriental and African Studies	body	U. London	UK
SOITM	Iraqi Turkmen Human Rights Research Foundation	body	---	The Netherlands
SOS	Seminar fuer Orientalische Sprachen	meeting	U. Bonn	Germany
SOSAA	Society of South Asian Archaeologists	group	---	---
SOTA	Stichting Onderzoekcentrum Turkistan en Azerbaidzjan	---	---	The Netherlands
SOTS	Society for Old Testament Study	group	---	UK
SouthasiaCRN	Collaborative Research Network (CRN) for South Asia	group	---	US
SP back
SPARROW	Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women	body	Mumbai	India
SPAS	School of Pacific and Asian Studies	body	U. of Hawaii	US
SPC	The Secretariat of the Pacific Community	group	---	New Caledonia
SPEAC	Summer Programs East Asian Concentration	program	DEALL	US
SPIA	Shakespeare Performance in Asia	resource	MIT Shakespeare Electronic Archive	US
SPICE	Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education	program	Stanford U.	US
SPJCA	Special Program in Japanese Studies for Central Asian countries	program	U. of Tsukuba	Japan
SPREP	Pacific Regional Environment Programme	program	SPC	Samoa
SPTO	South Pacific Tourism Organisation	body	---	Fiji
SR back
SRAS	School of Russian and Asian Studies	---	---	Russia
SRC	Social Research Center	---	AUCA	Kyrgyzstan
SRI	Secretariat pour les Relations avec l'Islam	---	L'Eglise Catholique de France	France
SRSP	Silk Road Studies Program	program	Johns Hopkins U./Uppsala U.	US/Sweden
SRSSTAC	Shanghai Research Society of Science and Technology of Ancient Ceramics	group	Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences	China
SS back
SSA	Syrian Studies Association	group	U. Oklahoma	US
SSAAPS	Swedish School of Advanced Asia-Pacific Studies	---	---	Sweden
SSAS	Society for South Asian Studies	group	---	UK
SSAS	Sällskapet för Asienstudier	---	Uppsala U.	Sweden
SSCLE	Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East	group	---	US
SSCR	Society for the Study of Chinese Religions	group	---	US
SSE	Shanghai Stock Exchange	body	---	China
SSE	Shenzhen Stock Exchange	body	---	China
SSEAL	South/Southeast Asia Library	body	U. of California, Berkeley	US
SSEC	Society for the Study of Early China	group	U. of Chicago	US
SSELP	Sinological Serials in European Libraries Project	project	U. of Heidelberg	Germany
SSEASR	South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Religion	group	---	India
SSELP	Sinological Serials in European Libraries Project	---	U. of Heidelberg	Germany
SSGM	State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project	---	RSPAS	Australia
SSG-S	EZB-Fachausschnitt Suedasien Dokument-Schnellieferdienst	---	U. of Heidelberg	Germany
SSJR	Society for the Study of Japanese Religions	group	U. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	US
SSPC	Society for the Study of Peace and Conflict	group	---	India
SSRC	Social Science Research Centre on Contemporary China	body	UM, Macao	China
ST back
STEDT	Sino-Tibetan Etymological Dictionary and Thesaurus	resource	U. of California, Berkeley	US
STICERD	Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines	body	LSE	UK
STIMW	Sanskrit Tradition in the Modern World	meeting	U. of Machester	UK
SU back
SUPRA	Support Program for Advanced Asian Studies	program	NIAS	Denmark
SW back
SWAIC	Program on Southwest Asia and Islamic Civilization	program	Tufts U.	US
SWCAS	Southwest Conference [of The Association for Asian Studies]	meeting	AAS	US
SWSEEL	Summer Workshop in Slavic, East European and Central Asian Languages	program	Indiana U.	US

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