We are an organization that supports an open access strategy for Latin America, aiming to increase the visibility of the region’s scientific output through institutional repositories based on a federated network model.
This is a network of collaboration and coordination in the field of public policies for open access and open science, involving the main national Science and Technology agencies, along with a technical network that supports national strategies and country-specific tasks.
We promote the development of public goods and economies of scale by establishing, for example, common interoperable guidelines and actively participating in their evolution and development; open-source, transferable technologies; shared developments that provide added value; and training initiatives.
We build partnerships with international actors in the areas of action of LA Referencia, addressing various lines of work such as interoperability with OpenAIRE (the European Open Science platform); joint indexing in major global search engines; participation in COAR; and specific agreements with initiatives like CERN’s Zenodo for scientific data, among others.
It fundamentally derives from two main sources: the tradition of public goods and the benefits that result from coordinated action. For example, we can highlight:
