LARRP has initiated a partnership with CLACSO [1] (Latin American Council on Social Sciences), JSTOR [2], and Libreria Garcia Cambeiro [3] to make a portion of CLACSO's monographs freely available online through the JSTOR platform. This model has the potential to greatly expand access to knowledge produced in the Global South and make that information available to users around the world. The lack of widespread commercial access to Latin American monographs on academic ebook platforms prompted LARRP members to identify a creative way to support Latin American scholarly monographic publishing. This initiative's pilot program has introduced a sustainable, library-supported Open Access model for Latin American monographs and contains two hundred monographs.
After a 2015 endorsement by LARRP, the pilot was funded by eight LARRP member libraries: New York University, Columbia University, the New York Public Library, Harvard University, Princeton University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Pittsburgh, and Duke University.
Mediated by LARRP leadership, this unique partnership brought together a publisher, a platform, and a bookseller:
Institutions interested in learning more about this project can contact:
Angela Carreño
Chair, LARRP Advisory Committee
Interim Curator for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, New York University
Melissa Gasparotto
LARRP Resource Discovery Working Group Chair
AD, Research Services and Institutional Partnerships, The New York Public Library