About
Launched:
2012
Record Updated:
Apr 19, 2024
The Federated Network of Institutional Repositories of Scientific Publications, or simply LA Referencia, is a Latin American network of open access repositories. Through its services, it supports national Open Access strategies in Latin America through a platform with interoperability standards, sharing and giving visibility to the scientific production generated in institutions of higher education and scientific research.
From the national nodes, scientific articles, doctoral and master's theses are integrated, coming from more than a hundred universities and research institutions from the ten countries that now form LA Referencia. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, Mexico, Panama, Peru and Uruguay.
This experience is based on technical and organizational agreements between public science and technology agencies (Ministries and Oncyts ) of the member countries, together with RedCLARA. LA Referencia was born through the Cooperation Agreement, signed in Buenos Aires in 2012, which reflects the political will to offer in open access the scientific production of Latin America as a regional public good with emphasis on the results financed with public funds.
Mission
LA Referencia gives visibility to the scientific production of higher education and research institutions in Latin America, promotes open and free access to the full text, with special emphasis on publicly financed results.
Key Achievements
Some of the achievements at a technical and institutional level are:
We are a federated network with 11 member countries and presence in international discussions linked to open science.
A consolidation of a regional aggregator portal with metadata validation and enrichment in accordance with OpenAIRE guidelines (aligned with Europe).
OAI-PMH interoperability service added by OpenAIRE, BASE and other regional aggregators, making Latin American production visible in Europe.
More than 5 million metadata records on regional scientific production
Regional usage statistics service compatible with OpenAIRE, in collaboration with FECYT/RECOLECTA from Spain.
Open software platform published on Github installed in LA Referencia´s country nodes, Portugal (RCAAP/FCT-FCCN) and Africa
Regional collaboration and participation in international projects (SCOSS, COAR Notify, OpenAIRE)
Technical Attributes
Open Code Repository
Implemented
Content Licensing
Different Creative Commons Licences and custom intitutional licences
Standards Employed
Directrices Driver 2.0
OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repository Managers 3
Dublin Core
OAI-PMH
Hosting Options & Service Providers
Hosting Strategy
Not applicable
What other tools and projects does your project interact with?
OpenAIRE, COAR Notify, Redalyc, SciELO, ROR, CORE, BASE, CVLattes, DSpace, Vivo