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Bibliography of Definition Sources

The following source references were used to provide provenance for ELSST Definitions. Where no definition source is shown, the definition has either been created in-house, or the original source no longer applies or cannot be determined. Unattributed definitions are checked periodically and may be updated with new definition sources.

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Some of the references in this bibliography may have alternative acronyms. The acronyms provided below are those used within ELSST.

Acronym Reference
ADED Wallace, S. (ed.) (2015) A dictionary of education, 2nd edn., (Online version) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ADOE Allaby, M. (2015) A dictionary of ecology, 5th edn., (Online version) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ATED Australian Thesaurus of Education Descriptors. Retrieved 22 August 2023 from http://cunningham.acer.edu.au/multites2007/index.html
BRITANNICA Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 22 August 2023 from https://www.britannica.com/
BRUNDTLAND World Commission on Environment and Development (1987) Our Common Future. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
CDB Pass, C., Lowes, B., Pendleton, A. and Chadwick, L. (1991) Collins dictionary of business, 2nd edn., Glasgow: Harper Collins.
CLOSER CLOSER topics. Retrieved 22 August 2023 from https://wiki.ucl.ac.uk/display/CLOS/Topics
CODL Matthews, P. (ed.) (1997) Concise Oxford dictionary of linguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
CODP McLean, I. (ed.) (1996) Concise Oxford dictionary of politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
CODS Marshall, G. (1994) The concise Oxford dictionary of sociology, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DE-2002 Black, J. (2002) A dictionary of economics, 2nd edn., Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DE-2003 Dictionary of economics (2003), A & C Black, London.
DE-2017 Hashimzade, N., Myles, G. and Black, J. (2017) A dictionary of economics, 5th edn., (Online version) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DEC Park, C. and Allaby, M. (2017) A dictionary of environment and conservation, 3rd edn., (Online version) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DEST Porteous, A. (1996) Dictionary of environmental science and technology, 2nd edn., Chichester: J. Wiley.
DFN Bender, D. A. (2014) A dictionary of food and nutrition, 4th edn., (Online version) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DHG Rogers, A., Castree, N. and Kitchin, R. (eds.) (2013) A dictionary of human geography. (Online version) Oxford, Oxford University Press.
DL-1997 Martin, E. A. (ed.) (1997) A dictionary of law, 4th edn., Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DL-2018 Law, J. (2018) A dictionary of law, 9th edn., (Online version) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DN Martin, E. A and McFerran, T. A. (eds.) (2017) A dictionary of nursing, 7th edn., (Online version) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOE Porta, M. (ed). (2016) A dictionary of epidemiology, 6th edn., (Online version) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOSS Tomlinson, A. (2010) A dictionary of sports studies, (Online version) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DPH Porta, M. and Last, J. M (eds.) (2018) A dictionary of public health, 2nd edn., (Online version) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DSS Calhoun, C. (ed.) (2002) Dictionary of the social sciences, (Online version) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
EIGE European Institute for Gender Equality thesaurus. Retrieved 22 August 2023 https://eige.europa.eu/thesaurus/
ERIC ERIC Thesaurus (n.d.). Retrieved 22 August 2023 from https://eric.ed.gov/?ti=J
EUROSTAT EUROSTAT: The Statistical Office of the European Union (n.d.). Retrieved 22 August 2023 from https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/home
FAF Kent, M. (2016) Food and fitness: a dictionary of diet and exercise, 2nd edn., (Online version) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
GEMET GEMET Thesaurus (n.d.). Retrieved 22 August 2023 from https://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/en/about/
HASSET HASSET Thesaurus (n.d.).
IBE UNESCO-IBE Education Thesaurus (n.d.). Retrieved 22 August 2023 from http://www.ibe.unesco.org/en/unesco-ibe-education-thesaurus
ICPSR ICPSR Thesaurus (n.d.). University of Michigan. Retrieved 22 August 2023 from https://www.vocabularyserver.com/icpsr/
ILO ILO Thesaurus (n.d.). Retrieved 22 August 2023 from https://metadata.ilo.org/thesaurus.html
ISCED-1997 International Standard Classification of Education: ISCED (1997). Retrieved 22 August 2023 from https://unstats.un.org/unsd/iiss/International-Standard-Classification-of-Education-ISCED.ashx
MESH Medical Subject Headings (MESH) (n.d.). National Library of Medicine. Retrieved 22 August 2023 from https://meshb.nlm.nih.gov/search
OCSD Concise colour science dictionary, (1997) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ODC Rennie, R. and Law, J. (2016) A dictionary of chemistry, 7th edn., (Online version) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
ODSSM Kent, M. (2007) Oxford dictionary of sports science and medicine, 3rd edn., (Online version) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
OED Oxford English Dictionary (Online version). Retrieved 22 August 2023 from https://www.oed.com/
PDIT Gunton, T. (ed.) (1993) Penguin dictionary of information technology, 2nd edn., Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin.
PE Planete Energies: Topics (n.d.). Retrieved 22 August 2023 from https://www.planete-energies.com/en
SCMAHD Dirckx, J. H. (ed.) (1997) Stedmans concise medical & allied health dictionary, Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins.
UNESCO UNESCO Thesaurus (n.d.). Retrieved 22 August 2023 from http://vocabularies.unesco.org/browser/thesaurus/en/
UNICRI UNICRI Thesaurus (n.d.). Retrieved 22 August 2023 from http://www.unicri.eu/services/library_documentation/catalogue_thesaurus/thesaurus.php
WHO World Health Organization (WHO) Health Promotion Glossary (1998).