GovSpeak: A Guide to U.S. Government Acronyms and Abbreviations

GovSpeak: A Guide to U.S. Government Acronyms and Abbreviations,
Presented as a LibGuide, this website provides links to the actual "identified department, agency, office, program or publication" for hundreds of government acronyms. Based on Appendix A of the U.S. Government Manual http://usgovernmentmanual.gov/ , its content has been greatly expanded and enhanced. .... Military abbreviations are excluded; instead users are referred to the DOD Dictionary of Military Terms www.dtic.mil/doctrine/dod_dictionary/. Acronyms are arranged alphabetically. If an agency has merged or changed names, links to the new acronym are provided. The site is searchable, within confines of the capabilities of LibGuides software. Links are checked monthly; no dead links were found during searching. Of the Internet's various acronym sites, this one stands out as the most thorough for locating government acronyms. Searching Acronym Finder www.acronymfinder.com/  or Abbreviations www.abbreviations.com/ presents more difficulties in locating desired acronyms and yields less detailed results. A comparison of this site to the 2012 edition of the Acronyms, Initialisms and Abbreviations Dictionary ... revealed some abbreviations in GovSpeak that were not in this annual publication from Gale.... The Dictionary contains a wider variety of government-related acronyms, including those that correspond to defunct agencies, the military, location identifiers, and foreign governments; however, it lacks direct links to agency information. Not surprisingly, GovSpeak is incomplete; creating a complete government acronym list would be nearly impossible. However, this site will be useful . . .  since it allows users to quickly locate many government acronyms and find corresponding information. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and general readers. -- C. A. Sproles, University of Louisville ACRL- Choice Dec 2012