News
María José López Pourailly
On December 20 RedCLARA activated the ground link of 1 Gbit/s Ethernet installed between San Salvador (El Salvador) and San Jose (Costa Rica), increasing the backbone capacity in the section that runs between San Jose - Managua - San Salvador to 1 Giga and leaving a node in Nicaragua to which the country will be able to connect as soon as it decides to become a RedCLARA member.
Ysabel Briceño/LAReferencia
Minister of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of Argentina, Lino Barañao, recognized the agreement to develop regional strategies in the area of institutional repositories as a first step in the profound change that has to face Latin America and the Caribbean in the coordination of scientific and technological policies. (Text in Spanish)
Tania Altamirano López
On November 29, 2012, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the scientific authorities of Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela and El Salvador signed the creation of "LaReferencia", a project to develop a federated network of institutional repositories of scientific publications for storing, sharing and giving visibility to the scientific production of Latin America.
Tania Altamirano López
Seven outstanding representatives from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Spain will meet through videoconference to share their experiences in the field of culture and art. Meet the speakers and the agenda of the event here. (Text in Spanish)
Ysabel Briceño/LAReferencia
Countries from Latin America and the Caribbean will sign a cooperation agreement to implement the Latin American Federated Network of Scientific Documentation Repositories, in order to support the development of regional strategies in the field of Open Access, and to implement a pilot project to define common policies, standards, metadata, resources and some related services.