<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Sorry for the cross posting<br class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline;" class="">Please see the announcement below about a meeting last week in Rio de Janeiro between COAR, LA Referencia and OpenAIRE to discuss further alignment of these two major repository networks. The announcement will be available in English, Spanish and Portuguese on the LA Referencia website: <a href="http://lareferencia.redclara.net/rfr/" class="">http://lareferencia.redclara.net/rfr/</a></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="line-height: 1.38;" class="">A major, important outcome was an agreement between the two networks that they </span><span style="line-height: 17px;" class="">would</span><span style="line-height: 1.38;" class=""> adopt common metadata guidelines (OpenAIRE Guidelines) and participate together in their further development over time. This will ensure much greater interoperability between the content in the repositories in these regions. </span></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Please feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions.</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Best, Kathleen</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><div style="line-height: normal;" class="">Kathleen Shearer</div><div style="line-height: normal;" class="">Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)</div><div style="line-height: normal;" class=""><a href="mailto:m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com" class="">m.kathleen.shearer@gmail.com</a> - +1 514 992 9068</div><div style="line-height: normal;" class="">Skype: kathleen.shearer2 - twitter: @KathleeShearer</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">-----------</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Communiqué</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:13.333333333333332px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""> </span></p>
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<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Rio de Janeiro,
November 25 & 26, 2015</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:13.333333333333332px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""> </span></p>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""><br class="">
</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">There is growing recognition worldwide
that our substantial global investments in research have
much greater impact if they are widely shared and openly
available to everyone. LA Referencia, OpenAIRE and COAR
reaffirm their strong support for a shared vision of a
global network of repositories as fundamental
infrastructure for providing sustainable and open access
to research outputs, ensuring that all researchers and
citizens have access to the results of publicly funded
research.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:13.333333333333332px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""> </span></p>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""><br class="">
</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">On November 25 and 26, 2015
representatives from LA Referencia, OpenAIRE and COAR met
in Rio de Janeiro to discuss the adoption of common
metadata guidelines for repository networks and identify
areas for further collaboration. The meeting was hosted by
the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), along with Ibict
(Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e
Tecnologia), and is part of the Aligning Repository
Networks work being lead by COAR. </span></div>
<br class="">
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">OpenAIRE and LA Referencia represent
two of the most advanced regional networks of open access
repositories in the world. Closer collaboration between
these two networks will enhance the usability and
visibility of the collective content in the networks and
enable the development of value added services across the
two regions.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:13.333333333333332px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""> </span></p>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""><br class="">
</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">The three
organizations therefore resolve to pursue their common
vision through the following activities:</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""><br class=""></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:13.333333333333332px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""> </span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class="">
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;vertical-align:baseline" class="">LA Referencie and OpenAIRE will adopt common
metadata practices, based on the current OpenAIRE
guidelines and the vocabularies being developed in the
context of COAR, for repository networks and develop
these guidelines in collaboration.</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;vertical-align:baseline" class=""><br class=""></span></div>
</li>
</ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:13.333333333333332px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""> </span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class="">
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;vertical-align:baseline" class="">COAR, LA Referencia, and OpenAIRE will
explore ways to build capacity for managing
repositories and repository networks in Latin America,
particularly in terms of the implementation of best
practices.</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;vertical-align:baseline" class=""><br class=""></span></div>
</li>
</ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:13.333333333333332px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""> </span></p>
<ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class="">
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;vertical-align:baseline" class="">Under the auspices of COAR, LA Referencia,
and OpenAIRE will continue to work with other national
and regional networks to promote the vision of a
global repository network and investigate common
services in support of open access and open science.</span></div>
</li>
</ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:13.333333333333332px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""> </span></p>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""><br class="">
</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">------------------</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:13.333333333333332px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""> </span></p>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""><b class="">LA Referencia</b> is the
network of open access repositories from eight Latin
American countries. It supports national open access
strategies in Latin America through shared standards and a
single discovery platform. LA Referencia harvests
scholarly articles and theses & dissertations from
national nodes, which, in turn, harvest from repositories
at universities and research institutions. This initiative
is based on technical and organizational agreements
between public science and technology organizations
(National Ministries and Science & Technology
Departments) with RedCLARA.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:13.333333333333332px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""> </span></p>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""><br class="">
</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""><b class="">OpenAIRE,</b> funded by the European
Commission under H2020, is the Open Access Infrastructure
</span><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">for Research in Europe</span><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">, based on the
network of open access repositories. </span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:13.333333333333332px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""><br class="">
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align:justify" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""><b class="">The Confederation of Open Access
Repositories</b> (COAR) is an international association with
over 100 members and partners from around the world
representing libraries, universities, research
institutions, government funders and others. COAR brings
together the repository community and major repository
networks in order build capacity, align policies and
practices, and act as a global voice for the repository
community.</span></p>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""></div></div></div><br class=""><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""><b class="">Participants: </b></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""><br class=""></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:13.333333333333332px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""> </span></p>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Amaro, Bianca – Ibict,
Brazil</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Amórtegui, Miguel
Ángel – RENATA, Colombia</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Apollaro, Alberto –
Mincyt, Argentina</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Azrilevich, Paola - LA
Referencia/Mincyt, Argentina</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Cabezas, Alberto - LA
Referencia, Chile</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Granados, Diana –
Colciencias, Colombia</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Labbé, Carmen Gloria -
COAR/RedCLARA, Chile</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Matas, Lautaro - LA
Referencia, Argentina</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Merino, Sonia Elsy -
Min. de Educación, El Salvador</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Muñoz, Patricia –
CONACYT, Chile</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Rasseli, Luiz Alberto
- LA Referencia, Brazil</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Recavarren, Isabel –
Concytec, Peru</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Ribeiro, Washington -
Ibict, Brazil</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Rodrigues, Eloy -
OpenAIRE/COAR/ Minho University, Portugal</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Shearer, Kathleen –
COAR, Canada</span></div>
<div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class="">Siguencia, Josefina –
CEDIA, Ecuador</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class=""><span style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Arial;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);vertical-align:baseline" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="yj6qo ajU"><div aria-label="Show trimmed content" data-tooltip="Show trimmed content" id=":11x" class="ajR" role="button" tabindex="0"><img class="ajT" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><br class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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