CONSENSUSED STRATEGIES IN POLICIES AND SERVICES
There is a set of common policies for the Federated Network that are updated over time and respond to agreements from partner countries. These cover political, organizational and technical components that formed the basis of the project and that are a framework for the service and the deepening of interoperability actions. Also in this chapter are added the key projects and alliances that LA Referencia carries.
Representatives of LA Referencia member countries signed an Open Access Declaration in Mexico as a regional commitment to promote the principles outlined in the Berlin Declaration. The Act, signed in October 2011, aims to promote access to scientific and academic information through the provision of a Federated Network. An agreement was also signed to promote regional policies and encourage Open Access.
Read Acuerdo de Acceso Abierto
Read Acuerdo de Promoción y Políticas
Read Declaración de Berlín
High authorities representing the countries which are members of LA Referencia signed an agreement of political support for the development of regional strategies in the subject of Open Access. The agreement, signed in Buenos Aires in 2012, reflects the regional political will to facilitate equitable access to information derived from Latin American scientific production as a regional public good with an emphasis on publicly funded results. The Buenos Aires Act specifies the regional interest in creating the pilot experience of the Latin American Federated Network of Scientific Documentation Repositories, which establishes a country node strategy and the type of materials to be harvested and also defines an institutional framework.
In August 2012 the countries signed a technical agreement, based on the collaboration of the national networks for the inclusion of the relevant digital objects in the implementation of the pilot plan, that ended in December 2013. To these ends, it was agreed to adopt the Driver 2.0 normative for the progressive standardization of the metadata that integrates the various national repositories and maintain a node-country strategy. For the period 2014-2016 the work plan contemplated analyzing and adapting the OpenAire Guidelines, recognized as the continuity of Driver, in order to create an interoperable infrastructure of repositories on a global scale.
Read Acuerdo Técnico (2012)
Read Directrices DRIVER 2.0
Read Directrices OpenAIRE 3.0 para repositorios de literatura
Read Directrices LA Referencia (2015) - Metadatos y Políticas de Cosecha
Read Calidad de información - Aspectos técnicos y operativos
At present, the tendency from the S&T organizations to promote Open Science represents new challenges for LA Referencia and its member countries. This document recovers the concept of Open Science, details the benefits for researchers and access to knowledge, characterizes the region and poses a series of challenges and proposals to focus on.
Read LA Referencia. Policies for Open Science and Scientific Data in Latin America
ReadPublic Goods for Scientific Data Policies in Latin America
Cooperation and administration agreement between RedCLARA and LA Referencia (2018)
Read Cooperation and Administration Agreement between RedClara and LA Reference (December 2018).
The agreement was aimed at promoting common actions in Open Science and facilitating the use of Zenodo as a repository of scientific data for researchers and institutions in Latin America.
Held in order to promote access to scientific knowledge, implement mechanisms of technological cooperation and facilitate the use and collaborative development of the LA Referencia Software.
Read Press release: Cooperation Agreement between FCT of Portugal and LA Referencia.
Read Cooperation agreement between LA Reference and the FCT
The objective of the association is to support the adoption and commitment to vital technologies and open source programs, supported by the community, designed to manage academic communication, data sharing and digital repositories.
Read Agreement LA Referencia and Lyrasis
Read note Lyrasis and LA Referencia announce a new cooperation agreement.
The document describes the current model of academic communication and the challenges it faces to achieve a better balance between the commercial and non-commercial world, among other aspects. It reinforces that decisive actions must be taken so that the results financed totally or partially with public funds are in Open Access and reaffirms the central role of the CyT organizations to achieve it. Based on regional reality, it proposes general principles and actions for Open Access repositories, consortiums and magazines with a more systemic view from public policies.
Read Academic Communication and Open Access. Actions for a Public Policy in Latin America (May - 2019)
Read versions of the document in Spanish and English from Zenodo.
The Executive Secretariat designs and executes annual work plans approved by the Directing Council. The document includes chapters such as Service Description, Strategic Analysis, Functional Plans, budget, among others. The central agreements of the Council, in relation to the work plan and strategic orientations, are held at an annual meeting where an act is published.
Read Brazil Act (2015). Workshop LA Referencia/Coar/OpenAIRE
Read México Act (2016)
Read Buenos Aires Act (2017)
Read Santiago de Chile Act (2018)
Read Costa Rica Act (2019)
The Executive Secretariat designs and executes annual work plans approved by the Directing Council. The document includes chapters such as Service Description, Strategic Analysis, Functional Plans, budget, among others. The central agreements of the Council, in relation to the work plan and strategic orientations, are held at an annual meeting where an act is published. Read Agreement of procedure for the entry of member countries to LA Referencia.