Previous LARRP initiatives included work on these projects:
The Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents database, or LAPTOC, provides access to the tables of contents of journals published in Latin America and the Caribbean. LAPTOC consists of 975 academic and research journals published in 29 countries in the region, including bibliographic references to more than 340,000 articles in the area’s major languages. Most of the articles indexed in LAPTOC were published between 1994 and 2009. Database searches can be made by journal title, keywords in author and article titles, and country of publication.
LAPTOC is hosted at Vanderbilt University and is available at http://laptoc.library.vanderbilt.edu [4]
For further information, contact LARRP [5].
The Presidential Messages database [6] is a collection of digital full-text presidential messages of Argentina and Mexico from the early 19th century to the present.
Plans exist to add the presidential messages of other countries in the future.
For further information, contact LARRP [5].
The Latin American Open Archives Portal (LAOAP) [7] is a project to build a scholars’ portal at the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) to improve access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America. LAOAP will include working documents, preprints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials published by research institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and peripheral agencies, and that are not controlled by commercial publishers.
LAOAP utilizes the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), a low-barrier solution to disseminate and share digital content over the Web. LAOAP provides digital repositories with tools and training to “expose” their metadata—the standardized information describing the research materials—for “harvesting” by the OAI service provider site at LANIC. LAOAP also provides access to the digitized materials through the Open Archives scholars’ portal, and develops specialized searching services for the Latin Americanist social sciences research community.
Leading partners of LAOAP are Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales-Chile [8] (FLACSO-Chile) and Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica [9] (CIRMA).
For further information, contact LARRP [5].
Links
[1] https://www.crl.edu/grn/larrp/legacy-projects/laptoc
[2] https://www.crl.edu/grn/larrp/legacy-projects/presidential-messages
[3] https://www.crl.edu/grn/larrp/legacy-projects/laoap
[4] http://laptoc.library.vanderbilt.edu/
[5] https://www.crl.edu/grn/larrp/contact-larrp
[6] http://lanic.utexas.edu/larrp/pm/sample2/
[7] http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/laoap/
[8] http://www.flacso.cl/
[9] http://www.cirma.org.gt/