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LARRP Mission Statement
LARPP is a consortium of research libraries that seeks to increase free and open access to information in support of learning and scholarship in Latin American Studies. It mobilizes collaborative activities among individuals and organizations on a global scale and particularly cultivates relationships within the academic library community.
LARRP will achieve its mission by:
- Providing access to information that supports all forms of scholarship
- Promoting free and equitable access to these resources for the global scholarly community
- Actively seeking partnerships with institutions that contribute
to the flow of information
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 participants also provide online bibliographic records as quickly as possible and make the majority of these materials available through interlibrary loan.
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LARRP Services
A list of potential services and products that may become available for interested LARRP participants.
Project Coordinator: Scott Van Jacob [vanjacob.1 at nd.edu], University of Notre Dame
For questions on CRL administration of LARRP, contact Judy Eckoff Alspach.
Last updated February 11, 2008
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