RedCLARA News - 2004/2010

In order to develop strategies that promote open access and interoperability between institutional repositories in Latin America this year as part of Open Access Week, celebrated worldwide from 18 to 24 October, will be held “Open Access. Good Practices in Latin American projects”, a regional event that seeks to complement the institutional and national initiatives that are organized in the region.

According to the website of Open Access Week, this initiative represents an opportunity for the academic and research community to continue to learn about the potential benefits of Open Access, to share what they’ve learned with colleagues, and to help inspire wider participation in helping to make Open Access a new norm in scholarship and research.

" Open Access to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole., "says in the website the Director of Programs and Operations of the initiative of publishing academic resources, SPARC, Jennifer McLennan.

In 2009 a few universities and institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean developed specific activities in the OA, so this year the Latin American Corporation for Advanced Networks (CLARA), the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONACYT) of Chile, the Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, the National Digital Repositories of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of Argentina, the Network of Social Sciences Virtual Libraries of Latin America and the Caribbean CLACSO, of Argentina, the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, ESPOL, and the Constitutional Court of Ecuador, the Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina and the National Council for Science, Technology and Technological Innovation, CONCYTEC of Peru, formed an organizing committee to work on planning the event, which will be broadcast by videoconference and bye Streaming.


How to participate?
For those interested in participating may do so by videoconference (there are limited positions and have been asigned) or by the streaming transmission available at:
http://www.renata.edu.co/index.php/component/content/article/22-especiales/1317-sala1-eventos-renata-internet.html

PROGRAM
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Hours: 14 hours GMT. Duration: 2 hours

General Introduction
Florencio Utreras | Executive Director of CLARA

Practice Section
1. Policies to promote and facilitate the OA in a national and institutional level.
Paola Bongiovani | National Digital Repositories of Science and Technology, Argentina.

2. Design, planning, implementation and management of an Open Access institutional repository
Caterina Groposo Pavão | Repository from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).

3. Interoperability between repositories national, regional and international
Alicia López Medina | Institutional Repository "e-SpacioUNED", Spain. RECOLECTA Portal Executive Committee, Open Science Collector in Spain. Executive Committee member of COAR).

3. Institutional repositories cooperation between national and Latin American
Malgorzata Lisowska | COLABORA and Red Latinoamericana Federated Institutional Repository Scientific Documentation CLARA-BID

4. Session of questions and answers, and exchange of views