<font color="#000000">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<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 September 2012 03:42, Dominique Babini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dasbabini@gmail.com" target="_blank">dasbabini@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<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/" target="_blank"><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 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 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">Regional
harvester in <a href="http://www.redclara.net/" target="_blank">RedCLARA</a> will harvest from
national harvester of institutional repositories</span></p>
<p 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 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">Standards
and tools for regional project: DRIVER + DSpace + Qualified Dublin Core</span></p>
<p 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" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.etd2012.edu.pe/pdf/presentation/FArditoETD2012.pdf</span></a><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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