SHARING AND GIVING VISIBILITY TO SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION IN LATIN AMERICA

The Latin American Network for Open Science, or simply LA Referencia, through its services, it supports national Open Access strategies in Latin America and Spain through a platform with interoperability standards, sharing and giving visibility to the scientific production generated in institutions of higher education and scientific research.

From the national nodes, scientific articles, doctoral and master's theses are integrated, coming from more than a hundred universities and research institutions from the ten countries that now form LA Referencia. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain, Panama, Peru and Uruguay.

This experience is based on technical and organizational agreements between public science and technology agencies (Ministries and Oncyts ) of the member countries, together with RedCLARA. LA Referencia was born through the Cooperation Agreement, signed in Buenos Aires in 2012, which reflects the political will to offer in open access the scientific production of Latin America as a regional public good with emphasis on the results financed with public funds.

OUR TEAM

LA Referencia is possible thanks to a work network formed by the Board of Directors (appointed by the authorities of Science and Technology); the Technical Committee (responsible for the operation of the national nodes), the administrative support of RedCLARA and a network of collaborators in the region committed to Open Science.

The central team that collaborates in this joint is composed of:

Robinson Zapata Pino. President of LA Referencia. Representative of Panama, Head of the Department of Scientific and Technological Information at the National Secretariat of Science, Technology, and Innovation (SENACYT) of Panama.

Patricia Muñoz. Vice President of LA Referencia. Representative of Chile, Deputy Director of Networks, Strategy, and Knowledge at the Research and Development Agency (ANID) of Chile.

Lautaro Matas. Executive and Technical Secretary of LA Referencia. Developer of the LA Reference Software Platform (LR Harvester).

Federico Cetrangolo. Administrative Manager of LA Referencia. Economist. Student of the Master in Administration and Politics at the University of San Andrés.

Guillermo Murillo Goussen. Software Development and Support of LA Referencia. Computer Engineer of Vice-Rectory for Research of the University of Costa Rica.

Johan Espinoza Rojas. Responsible for communication of LA Referencia. Journalist and researcher in user experience design (UX). Master in Cognitive Sciences (Universidad Costa Rica).