LA Referencia.Latin American and Spanish Network
for Open Science
LA Referencia supports national Open Science strategies in Latin America and Spain through its range of services.
Browse scientific research outputs in Open Access
What steps should I take if my research or institutional repository is not available in LA Referencia?
LA Referencia harvests metadata from repositories and other scientific information sources. To make your research outputs visible, deposit them in your institution’s repository. If you manage a repository and would like to contribute its content, explore the participation pathways and contact the national node or LA Referencia, as appropriate.
How to participate
LA Referencia IOI Project
Expansion and innovation of federated open science infrastructure in Latin America
Go to resourceLA Referencia/Lyrasis DSpace Project
The LA Referencia – Lyrasis Project is a joint initiative designed to strengthen the adoption, use, and upgrading of DSpace within the repository community of Latin America and Spain. Through a comprehensive approach, the project aims to provide technical support, updated documentation, specialized training, and tool development to improve the management of digital repositories in the region.
Go to resourceLA Referencia Resources
Repository of LA Referencia technical resources, documentation, and digital assets
Go to resourceRegional expansion and coverage
Explains how COAR IRD, ROR, national systems and direct work with organizations extend coverage to member and non-member countries.
View pageMultilingual semantic search
Explains how search by meaning complements keyword retrieval and lets you test queries in seven languages over the LA Referencia collection.
View pageSelective protection against bots and scraping
Explains the Anubis and Nginx Proxy Manager solution to distinguish authorized academic services, identified scrapers and regular browsers.
View pageSelecting a model for multilingual semantic search
Explains what an embeddings model is, how the alternatives were evaluated and why BGE-M3 was selected for the first implementation.
View pagedARK: persistent identifiers as a regional public good
Explains the problem, the ARK scheme and the decentralized conceptual model the project aims to consolidate in the region.
View pagedARK 2.0: technical architecture and multi-site operation
Explains the attribution and resolution cycle, the APIs, blockchain, IPFS and the infrastructure model distributed across sites.
View pageRegional Dataverse Alpha
The LA Referencia Alpha environment is operational. The page documents the baseline, authorized examples, training and upcoming pilots to build regional capacity.
View pageIntroduction to data management and curation in Dataverse
The first cohort started on August 24, 2026. The 16-hour asynchronous MOOC releases four modules progressively and links training to practice in Dataverse Alpha.
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