The Latin Americanist Research Resources Partnership is a cooperative initiative of North American, Latin American, and Caribbean libraries that seek to improve access to the array of research resources published in Latin America. Its principal goal is to expand access to Latin American research resources by promoting a distributed model of library cooperation, enhanced electronic access, and effective document delivery.
Core components of activity include:
- Latin American
Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC)
LAPTOC is a searchable Web database that provides access to the tables of contents of more than 800 journals, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America.
- Latin American Open
Archives Portal (LAOAP)
LAOAP is a portal service providing access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies. It encompasses working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials that are not controlled by commercial publishers.
- Presidential
Messages
The Presidential Messages database contains digital images of over 75,000 pages of presidential speeches from the early 19th century to the present from Mexico and Argentina.
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Distributed Resources
An agreement between participating North American libraries designed to strengthen the collective coverage of monographs and other resources produced in Latin America. Through the concerted reallocation of library collection budgets, enhanced coverage of "non-core" materials is provided in an inter-connected network of collections. The total reallocated funding is more than $170,000 per year. The participants also provide online bibliographic records as quickly as possible and make the majority of these materials available through interlibrary loan. The program is described in more depth in the article, "The Latin Americanist Research Resources Project: A New Direction for Monographic Cooperation?" by Dan C. Hazen.
General questions or comments may be sent to the LARRP Website administrator, Judy Eckoff , at CRL. Technical questions or comments regarding the LARRP data bases may be sent to LANIC.
Site last updated 29 November 2006.
