Its a very good news that Latin American network for agriculture scholarly repositories has been created. I wish that similar kind of efforts would be putforth in South Asia (SAARC) too. But before that the individual countries should speedup the open access movement. The agricultural academies and the scholars should come and discuss on this subject very often and should build a grater movement for OA
Sridhar __________________________________________________________ Sridhar Gutam PhD, ARS, Patent Laws (NALSAR), IP & Biotech. (WIPO) Senior Scientist (Plant Physiology) Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture <http://www.cishlko.org> Joint Secretary, Agricultural Research Service Scientists' Forum<http://www.icar.org.in/en/node/1168> Convener, Open Access India <https://www.facebook.com/oaindia> Rehmankhera, Kakori Post Lucknow 227107, Uttar Pradesh, India Phone: +91-522-2841022/23/24; Fax: +91-522-2841025 Mobile:+91-9005760036/8005346136 Publications: http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/ Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?hl=en&user=6W1MSSwAAAAJ<http://goo.gl/EQAwr> <https://www.facebook.com/gutamsridhar> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/sridhargutam> <http://twitter.com/gutam2000><http://works.bepress.com/sridhar_gutam/rss.html> On 30 September 2012 03:42, Dominique Babini <dasbab...@gmail.com> wrote: > La Referencia (Latin America network of national systems of institutional > repositories) > > http://lareferencia.redclara.net/ project with support from IADB > > > Initial agreements: > > - - Members are countries, 8 initial countries (Argentina, > Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Brasil, Colombia, México, Venezuela) > > - - Regional harvester in RedCLARA <http://www.redclara.net/>will > harvest from national harvester of institutional repositories > > - - Contents: posprint peer-review articles + postgraduate > theses + research reports (metadata must indicate if content has been > peer-reviewed) > > - - Standards and tools for regional project: DRIVER + DSpace + > Qualified Dublin Core > > - - Formal launching: Meeting of Ministers of Science and > Technology from Latin America, Buenos Aires, 26-27 November 2012 > > > > Source: Presentation from Fernando Ardito at ETD 2012, Lima, Peru > http://www.etd2012.edu.pe/pdf/presentation/FArditoETD2012.pdf > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > >
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