NISO

National Information Standards Organisation (USA). NISOStandards cover many aspects of library science, publishing,and information services, and address the application of bothtraditional and new technologies to information services.

NISO

(National Information Standards Organization, Baltimore, MD, www.niso.org) A non-profit organization founded in 1939 that deals with bibliographic and related information standards. NISO represents the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) internationally in the International Organization for Standardization's technical committee for information and documentation, which is why NISO standards have ANSI/NISO designations. For example, OpenURL is the ANSI/NISO Z39.88 standard (see OpenURL). See ANSI and ISO.

NISO

Acronym	Definition
NISO➣National Information Standards Organization
NISO➣National Irish Safety Organisation
NISO➣Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra (Sioux Center, IA)
NISO➣Netherlands Industrial Space Organization
NISO➣New International Student Orientation (Western Illinois University; Moline, IL)
NISO➣Naval Investigative Service Office