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The Latin American Open Archives Portal is a project of the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project, in collaboration with LANIC, to improve access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America. The portal provides access to working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials from the "deep Web." Typically, this content is published by research institutes, non-governmental organizations, and peripheral agencies that are not controlled by commercial publishers.
Utilizing the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) as a low barrier solution to disseminate and share digital resources, the portal provides access to digital content from participating data providers and specialized searching services for the Latin Americanist social sciences research community. The harvester and search portal are currently under development.
LAOAP Collection Development Policy
Glossary of terms
Preguntas Frecuentes
Articles & Papers About the Project
- Bibliotecas Digitales Latinoamericanas en el Marco de OAI-PMH by María Inés Bravo, Kent Norsworthy, and Paula Pardo Lorca, presented at LASA2004
- Experiencias de la Biblioteca del IEP en LAOAP Virginia García, presented at SALALM52, April 2007
- LAOAP Partner Profile: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos by Virginia García and Kent Norsworthy, Global Resources Newsletter, Spring 2007
- Latin American Open Archives Portal David Block, Global Resources Newsletter, Spring 2007
- La naturaleza del material bibliográfico digitalizado en el marco de la participación de UTDT en el proyecto LAOAP Norma Palomino, presented at SALALM52, April 2007
- Open Archives and Collection Development by David Block, presented at SALALM52, April 2007
- The Latin American Open Archives Portal by Eudora Loh and Dr. Ning Lin, originally published in the Winter 2004-2005 issue of the Global Resources Network Newsletter
Grant Resources
- Grant abstract
- Grant proposal
- Project Working Group
- Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access TICFIA
- Terms of Reference for Project Consultant
- Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
Project Partners
- Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica CIRMA-Guatemala
- Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales FLACSO-Chile
- Universidad Torcuato Di Tella UTDT-Argentina
- LARRP Participating Libraries
Prototypes
Guide to Institutional Repository Software v2.0 Budapest Open Access Initiative
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