| AAF | Australian Access Federation |
| ac3 | Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications |
| AeRIC | Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council |
| ANDS | Australian National Data Service |
| ANSTO | Australian National Science and Technology Organisation |
| ARC | Australian Research Council |
| ARCS | Australian Research Collaboration Service |
| AREN | Australian Research and Education Network |
| AustLII | Australasian Legal Information Institute |
| CHeReL | Centre for Health Record Linkage |
| CSIRO | Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organisation |
| DSRD | Department of State and Regional Development (NSW) |
| HASS | Humanities, arts and social sciences |
| HEEF | Higher Education Endowment Fund |
| INTERSECT | Institute for Trans-disciplinary eResearch and Technology |
| ITS | Information Technology Services |
| LIEF | Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities |
| MARCS | Member of ARCS |
| MELCOE | Macquarie eLearning Centre of Excellence |
| NCI | National Computational Infrastructure |
| NCRIS | National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy |
| NeAT | National eResearch Architecture Taskforce |
| NHMRC | National Health and Medical Research Council |
| NICTA | National ICT Australia |
| PAC | Partnership for Advanced Computing |
| PfC | Platforms for Collaboration |
| SIRCA | Securities Industries Research Centre for Asia-Pacific |
| SLA | Service Level Agreement |
| VeRSI | Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative |