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Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas | |
| Founded | November 29, 2012 |
|---|---|
| Type | Open access repository network |
| Headquarters | Santiago, Chile |
Key people | Robinson Zapata Pino (Executive Director) |
| Affiliations | RedCLARA, OpenAIRE, COAR |
| Website | www |
LA Referencia (Template:Lang-es, lit. "Federated Network of Institutional Repositories of Scientific Publications") is a Latin American open access network of national institutional repositories of scientific publications. Formally established on 29 November 2012 through a cooperation agreement signed at a meeting of ministers of science and technology in Buenos Aires, Argentina, it provides regional infrastructure for the discovery and access of research produced at universities and scientific institutions across its member countries. As of the mid-2020s, the network connects repositories from twelve countries — Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Spain and Uruguay — aggregating content from more than a hundred universities and research institutions.[1] Independent researchers studying open access in Latin America have characterized LA Referencia as a regionally distinctive infrastructure designed to aggregate publicly funded research outputs through interoperable national nodes, rather than relying on individual institutions choosing voluntarily to upload content to a centralized platform.[2]
History
editThe groundwork for LA Referencia was laid between 2010 and 2012 through a project funded by the Regional Public Goods programme of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), which supported the design of a common technical and governance framework for a regional network of institutional repositories.[3] The network was officially launched on 29 November 2012 at a gathering of Latin American science and technology ministers in Buenos Aires, where representatives of nine countries — Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, México, Perú and Venezuela — signed the cooperation agreement that brought it into existence.[4]
At the time of its launch, the network was described as being designed to benefit an estimated 700,000 teachers, 70,000 researchers and around 15 million students across Latin America and the Caribbean.[4] A key design principle distinguished LA Referencia from other regional platforms such as SciELO: rather than depending on individual journals choosing to upload content, each member institution commits to depositing the research outputs produced by its researchers, including peer-reviewed articles and postgraduate theses.[4][2] Scholarly reviews of the development of open access in Latin America place the founding of LA Referencia as a milestone in the region's transition from isolated national initiatives to an interoperable federated infrastructure linking public science agencies across borders.[5]
The IDB project concluded in 2013. Beginning in January 2014, LA Referencia transitioned to a self-sustaining model, with its operations financed by contributions from national science and technology agencies in member countries and with RedCLARA providing administrative support and technical infrastructure.[3]
Network structure
editLA Referencia operates as a federated harvesting network built on the OAI-PMH protocol and Dublin Core metadata standards. Each member country operates a national aggregation node that harvests records from the institutional repositories of its universities and research institutes. The regional aggregator in turn harvests from all national nodes, providing a single discovery interface across the entire network.[1] This architecture — in which content flows upward from institutional repositories to national nodes and finally to the regional aggregator — is based on agreements between the public science and technology agencies (national ministries and research councils) of member countries, with RedCLARA providing the underlying advanced academic internet network.[2]
The network is governed by a Board of Directors appointed by the authorities of member countries' science and technology agencies, with a Technical Committee responsible for the operation of national nodes, and administrative support provided by RedCLARA, the Latin American advanced academic internet network.[6]
International partnerships
editLA Referencia maintains interoperability links with OpenAIRE, the European open access infrastructure, allowing Latin American research outputs to be discoverable through the European research portal. The network is also a member of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), participating in international standards development for open repository networks.[1] The OECD has documented LA Referencia as a model of multi-country cooperation for access to publicly financed research outputs in its toolkit on public research data access.[1]
In the 2023–2024 cycle, LA Referencia received funding from SCOSS (the Global Sustainability Coalition for Open Science Services) to develop a regional usage statistics service, building a common infrastructure to measure how research deposited in its network is accessed and reused.[7]
See also
editReferences
edit- 1 2 3 4 "LA Referencia: The Latin American Network for Open Science". OECD. 2025. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
- 1 2 3 Torres, Leandro; Hartley, Ricardo; Kramer, Bianca; Gutierrez, Claudio (2019). "Repositories for academic products/outputs: Latin American and Chilean visions". F1000Research. 8: 1517. doi:10.12688/f1000research.19976.1. PMC 6820816. PMID 31700616.
- 1 2 Starczewski, Michal (27 March 2015). "LA Referencia – South American Open Science network: Interview with Alberto Cabezas". FAO AIMS. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
- 1 2 3 "Network to boost visibility of Latin America's science". SciDev.Net. 28 December 2012. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
- ↑ Minniti, Sergio; Santoro, Valeria; Belli, Simone (2018). "Mapping the development of Open Access in Latin America and Caribbean countries: An analysis of Web of Science Core Collection and SciELO Citation Index (2005–2017)". Scientometrics. 117 (3): 1905–1930. doi:10.1007/s11192-018-2950-0.
- ↑ "About us". LA Referencia. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
- ↑ "Usage Statistics". LA Referencia. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
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