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OUR CONTRIBUTION ON THE ROAD TOWARDS OPEN ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGE

We are an organization that underpins an open access strategy for Latin America in order to make visible its scientific production, based on institutional repositories under the model of a federated network.

A network of collaboration and articulation in the field of public policies for open access and open science among the main national organisms of Science and Technology, together with a technical network of support to the national strategies and tasks of each country.

We promote the promotion of public goods and economies of scale by agreeing, for example, interoperable common guidelines, participating in their evolution and development; open source transferable technologies; common developments that offer added value and training actions.

We generate alliances with international actors in the fields of action of LA Reference addressing various axes of action such as interoperability with OpenAIRE (European Open Science platform); common indexing in major global search engines; participation in COAR; specific agreements with initiatives such as Zenodo del Cern for scientific data, among others.

 

VALUE PROPOSAL

It derives mainly from two sources. The tradition of public goods and benefits that are the result of coordinated action. As for example we can cite:


AGREEMENTS

  • Generation of visions and joint strategies at regional level on the organizational model, annual work priorities and vision for future challenges from Latin America for repositories, open science and academic communication.
  • Identification of key alliances to support open access and strengthen a regional system connected to international initiatives. For example, participation in COAR (Confederation of Open Access Repositories) and OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe towards 2020). 
  • Understanding agreements with institutions that consolidate institutional objectives such as RedCLARA for collaboration with Nrens and network management; with FCT of Portugal for joint technological developments and production visibility; with Zenodo for scientific data.
  • Services that the private sector cannot offer given its high degree of uncertainty or lack of a market that allows the appropriation of benefits. It is also the role of CyT organizations to offer free information on science technology and innovation generated totally or partially with public funds.

TECHNOLOGY AND SERVICES

  • Open source, transferable technological development that allows savings in development, updating and support for each partner. Likewise, identification of common roadmaps that facilitate collaborative development according to the needs of the countries. 
  • Prioritization of non-proprietary standards and development architecture that prevents dependence on proprietary or unique solutions (for example, at the level of persistent identifiers or technological components). 
  • Services that represent economies of scale and can be transferred (for example, value-added services, distributed statistics, joint proof of concept to determine the viability of a product).
  • Visibility when indexing the production of each country collaboratively in other search engines and information retrieval systems.


GUIDELINES

  • Common rules that represent consensual guidelines for cataloging information and interoperability with the standards used in other regions such as Europe in order to have common infrastructure. 
  • Regional participation in the evolution of these guidelines (OpenAIRE) and in the development of associated recommendations such as controlled vocabularies (Coar) or scientific data (Datacite)


TRAINING AND COMMUNICATION

  • Webinars for national nodes in technical matters such as platforms and guidelines.
  • Dissemination of the activities of the associates.
  • Development and dissemination of training content and documents.
     

In addition, the countries that make up the Reference participate in COAR and through RedCLARA, collaborate in the OpenAIRE 2020 project (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe towards 2020), funded by the European Commission. READ MORE