<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">La Referencia (Latin America network of national systems of
institutional repositories)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><a href="http://lareferencia.redclara.net/"><span lang="EN-US">http://lareferencia.redclara.net/</span></a><span lang="EN-US">
project with support from IADB</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Initial agreements:</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> - </span>Members are countries, 8 initial countries
(Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Brasil, Colombia, México, Venezuela)</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style>-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> - </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style>Regional
harvester in <a href="http://www.redclara.net/">RedCLARA</a> will harvest from
national harvester of institutional repositories</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> - </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Contents:
posprint peer-review articles + postgraduate theses + research reports
(metadata must indicate if content has been peer-reviewed)</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style>-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> - </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style>Standards
and tools for regional project: DRIVER + DSpace + Qualified Dublin Core</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">-<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> - </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Formal
launching: Meeting of Ministers of Science and Technology from Latin America,
Buenos Aires, 26-27 November 2012</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US">Source: Presentation from Fernando Ardito at ETD
2012, Lima, Peru </span><a href="http://www.etd2012.edu.pe/pdf/presentation/FArditoETD2012.pdf"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.etd2012.edu.pe/pdf/presentation/FArditoETD2012.pdf</span></a><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>