Under the title “[Formation] of a Federated
Network of Institutional Repositories of Scientific
Documentation in Latin America”, the project presented
on 10 October 2008 by CLARA to the Inter-American
Development Bank’s (IDB) line of Public Regional
Assets (PRA) was notified on 9 January as shortlisted,
and today is about to begin.
... [T]he objective of the project
presented by CLARA is the following: “The Public
Regional Asset will consist of a federated network
of institutional repositories of scientific publications
with the aim of storing, sharing and giving visibility
to their scientific production, thus supporting the
region’s scientific and technologic development under
an agreement framework related to interoperability
and information management. Such initiative will
offer public access, thus contributing to the recording
and dissemination of scientific knowledge, regarding
knowledge as a public asset which represents a crucial
element for the scientific and technologic development
of each country and of the region as a whole”.
The countries that presented the proposal are
Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico ... It is necessary to
point out that Ecuador actively participated throughout
the proposal’s development, and it is expected that it
will soon be incorporated as a beneficiary country, as
will be the case of all the countries in the region in the
future.
With a funding of U$ 600,000 and an execution timescale
of two years, according to Rocío Cos, Project Manager
at CLARA, “the project aims to provide a greater
visibility to the research conducted in each country,
to the researchers and institutions, as well as to make
possible the sharing and exchanging of the knowledge
that is generated”. ...
P.S. CLARA (Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas, Latin-American Cooperation of Advanced Networks) is a 17-country partnership of "telecommunications advanced networks for research, innovation and education."
Posted by
Gavin Baker at 9/09/2009 05:19:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
