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General objective:  Contributing to share and give visibility to the scientific production generated in higher education and scientific research institutions; its purpose is the creation of a common strategy and a framework of agreements about the interoperability and management of information for the construction and operation of a federated network of institutional repositories of scientific publications (the BRP), aimed at storing, sharing and giving visibility to Latin America’s scientific production. Such strategy will be aimed at reaching agreements and establishing policies at a regional level on storage, federated access and the retrieval of the collections and services available the definition of interoperability standards, use of tools for document registry, security and quality, intellectual property and copyrights, and other aspects which should be taken into account for the sustainable growth of BRP.

Participants: RedCLARA (Uruguay), Coordinating institution
Argentina: Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation (MINCYT), National Research and Education Network of Argentina (INNOVA|RED); Brazil: Brazilian Institute of Science and Technology Information (IBICT); Chile: National Commission for Science and Technology Research (CONICYT), National University Network (REUNA); Colombia: Colombian Institute for Science and Technology Development (COLCIENCIAS), Ministry of Education (MEN), National Academic Network of Advanced Technology (RENATA); Ecuador: National Secretariat for Science and Technology (SENACYT), Ecuadorian Consortium for the Development of Advanced Internet (CEDIA); Peru: Peruvian Academic Network (RAAP), Venezuela – National Centre for Technological Innovation Foundation (CENIT).

Submitted by RedCLARA to the Fund for Regional Public Assets run by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), the project “Regional Strategy and Interoperability and Management Framework for a Latin American Federated Network of Institutional Scientific Documentation Repositories”, was endorsed by the IADB on June 18th, 2010.

The aim of the Project is to contribute to sharing and giving visibility to the scientific production generated in higher education and scientific research institutions; its purpose is the creation of a consensual strategy and a framework of agreements related to interoperability and information management for the construction and maintenance of a federated network of institutional scientific publications repositories (the RPA) aimed at storing, sharing and giving visibility to Latin America’s scientific production. Such strategy will be aimed at reaching agreements and establishing policies at a regional level in relation to the storage, federated access and retrieval of the collections and services available, the definition of interoperability standards, use of tools to record documents, security and quality, intellectual property and copyrights, and other aspects which should be taken into account for a sustainable growth of the RPA.