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Charge:
- To advise the Advisory Committee and the co-project directors on
issues related to the development of Open Archives Portal services
at LANIC, with an initial focus on Latin
American social sciences grey literature. - To recommend actions to facilitate and to support scholarly communication through electronic publishing utilizing Open Archives Initiative protocols.
- To develop a plan to engage Latin Americanist scholars in the development and use of the project repository and services.
- To review publications and other materials of Latin American partner organizations to establish priorities for digitization.
- To advise on standards and metadata for social sciences grey literature.
- To identify organizations that produce information appropriate for digitization under the project guidelines.
- To advise on and recommend methods for testing and evaluating the new portal services.
- To assist in publicizing and disseminating information about the project.
Members
David Block [db10 at cornell.edu] (chair), Cornell University
Carlos Delgado [cdelgado at library.berkeley.edu], University of California-Berkeley
Craig Schroer [schroer at mail.utexas.edu], University of Texas at Austin
Gayle Williams [gwillia at emory.edu], Emory University
