I. Name
The name of the body is Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP). LARRP is an unincorporated association, with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) acting in the capacity of fiscal and legal agent.

II. Purpose
The purpose of LARRP is 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.

III. Membership

A.    Membership in LARRP is open to institutions concerned with higher education or research and actively engaged in facilitating access to research resources relating to Latin American studies. The membership shall consist of libraries, universities or other academic or research institutions. Institutions need not be members of CRL to participate in LARRP.

B.    There are two categories of membership: Institutional Member and Affiliate Institution.

1.    Institutional Members are academic or research institutions that agree to participate, to pay annual membership fees, to abide by the terms and conditions set forth in the bylaws, and to fulfill responsibilities outlined in the participant agreement.
Each Institutional Member shall designate a Member Representative to serve as the official contact and voting representative of the institution. However, all employees, staff, faculty, students, and associates of an Institutional Member may participate in committees and contribute to activities of LARRP.
Institutional Members through their representatives are eligible to propose, enact, and otherwise participate in project activities and derive benefit therefrom, participate in project meetings and communications, vote on governance issues and other matters requiring membership approval, stand for elected offices and serve on the Advisory Committee and other working groups and task forces, and to elect officers and Advisory Committee members.

2.    Affiliate Institutions are organizations in Latin America interested in contributing to the objectives and activities of LARRP.

Affiliate Institutions are eligible to participate in project activities. Certain benefits provided to Institutional Members may not apply to Affiliate Institutions. Affiliate Institutions are ineligible to vote on matters of project activity or governance unless otherwise outlined in this document.

C.    An institution may join LARRP upon submission of a statement of intent to join and upon completion of a participant agreement signed by an authorized representative of the institution.

IV. Governance

A.    LARRP shall be governed by a committee comprised of the Member Representatives of each Institutional Member.

B.    The committee is empowered to consider and formulate the policies and procedures governing LARRP, approve and enact project activities, elect officers, Advisory Committee members, and Working Group Coordinators, amend bylaws, and consider and vote on matters requiring membership approval as necessary.

C.    All Institutional Members shall have equal votes on matters requiring a formal approval. Each institution shall be accorded one vote, to be decided and cast by the Member Representative.

D.    Votes shall be conducted by mail or electronic ballot, or during the course of official meetings. A Member Representative may designate another staff member to represent the institution, should the Member Representative not be available at the time of voting. A vote at an official meeting is valid on all issues if a quorum of one-half plus one of the Member Representatives is in attendance.

E.    Issues of LARRP policy or practice shall not intentionally conflict with or contradict the policies and practices of any member institution or the Center for Research Libraries. Where conflicts may arise, the policies of the institution shall prevail.

V. Advisory Committee

A.    LARRP shall be managed by an Advisory Committee comprised of elected representatives from the membership. Procedures are outlined in Section VIII.

B.    The Advisory Committee is empowered to conduct the business of LARRP in accordance with the recommendations of the membership; discuss and recommend future policy or changes in policy to be adopted by the membership; make budgetary decisions for LARRP, including proposing changes in the dues assessment; approach funding agencies; conduct periodic membership drives; and maintain communication with scholarly and professional associations as well as with other, similar cooperative projects.

C.    The Advisory Committee shall consist of elected and appointed members, as outlined below:

1.    The Chair of LARRP shall be elected to a three-year term and shall chair the Advisory Committee.

2.    Two representatives shall be elected to at-large positions on the Advisory Committee for a two-year term.

3.    Elected Coordinators of standing Working Groups shall serve on the Advisory Committee for the period of their elected terms

4.    A representative of CRL and a representative from the Library of Congress shall serve as ex officio members of the Advisory Committee.

5.    The Chair shall appoint a Library Director to the Advisory Committee for a three year term.  The Chair will make reasonable efforts to recruit the Library Director from LARRP’s institutional members.

6.    The Chair shall appoint two Faculty Representatives to serve for a three year term.  The Chair will make reasonable efforts to recruit these Faculty Representatives from LARRP’s institutional members.

D.    All elected representatives on the Advisory Committee, including the Chair, shall have equal votes on matters requiring a formal approval by the Committee. Each member shall be accorded one vote. Ex-officio members shall be nonvoting members.

E.    Advisory Committee Members may be reelected. Elected members begin their term of office immediately following the annual membership meeting.

F.    In the event a member is unable to serve a full term, the Chair shall appoint a replacement to serve the remainder of the term. Following this period, the replacement shall be eligible to stand for election according to the terms of Section VIII below.

G.    An Advisory Committee member may be removed from office by the Advisory Committee whenever, in their judgment, he or she does not fulfill the duties of the office. Removal may be enacted by a two-thirds vote of the Advisory Committee.

VI. Officers

A.    Chair

1.    A Chair of LARRP shall be elected from among representatives of the membership in accordance with the procedures in Section VIII. The Chair automatically becomes a member of the Advisory Committee.

2.    The duties of the Chair are to arrange, prepare for, and preside over meetings of the Advisory Committee and membership; implement, coordinate, or distribute responsibilities for projects and activities of LARRP; regularly report to and communicate with the membership; arrange for elections and ballots on matters of official project activity or governance; undertake correspondence and represent LARRP to external parties; and act as liaison to CRL and other appropriate governing bodies.

3.    The Chair shall serve a term of three years; reelection is permitted. The Chair shall serve as an ex-officio member of the Advisory Committee for one year following term of office.

4.    In the event a Chair is unable to serve a full term, the Advisory Board shall elect from within its membership a Chair to serve until the next election.

5.    The Chair may be removed from office by the Advisory Committee whenever, in their judgment, he or she does not fulfill the duties of the office. Removal may be enacted by a two-thirds vote of the Advisory Committee.

B.    Secretary

1.    A Secretary of LARRP shall be elected from among the members of the Advisory Committee.

2.    The duties of the Secretary are to record, post and distribute minutes of meetings of the Advisory Committee and the Membership.

3.    The Secretary shall serve a term of two years; reelection is permitted.

4.    In the event a Secretary is unable to serve a full term, the Chair shall appoint a replacement from among current Advisory Committee members to serve until the next election.

5.    The Secretary may be removed from office by the Advisory Committee whenever, in their judgment, he or she does not fulfill the duties of the office. Removal may be enacted by a two-thirds vote of the Advisory Committee.

VII. Working Groups and Task Forces

A.    Working Groups: The Advisory Committee shall designate standing Working Groups for continuing duties to enact project business.

1.    Working Groups shall be comprised of Member Representatives who elect to participate.

2.    Working Groups shall be chaired by a Coordinator, who shall be elected in accordance with the procedures in Section VIII. Working Group Coordinators shall serve a term of three years.

3.    Elected Coordinators of standing Working Groups shall serve on the Advisory Committee for the period of their elected terms.

4.    A Working Group can be terminated by a majority vote of the Advisory Committee.

B.    Task Forces: The Chair, in consultation with the Advisory Committee, shall appoint necessary Task Forces to accomplish projects of limited duration.

VIII. Elections

A.    Elections for the Chair, At-Large Members of the Advisory Committee, Working Group Coordinators, and all elected officers shall be conducted by mail or electronic ballot.

1.    The Chair of the Advisory Committee shall appoint members to a Nominating Committee which shall solicit nominations from Member Representatives, compose a slate of candidates, and obtain their agreement to serve.

2.    No later than sixty (60) days before the annual meeting, the Nominating Committee shall forward the slate of candidates to the CRL representative to conduct the ballot.

3.    Election shall be decided by a simple majority vote by voting Member Representatives. Any ties shall be broken by a vote of the incumbent Advisory Committee.

4.    The nominating committee shall inform the successful candidates and shall announce the election results to the membership.

IX. Meetings

A.    Advisory Committee Meetings

1.    The Advisory Committee shall meet at least once a year, as arranged by the Chair, with notification beforehand. The Committee may convene at additional times during the year in person or via other communication methods, as arranged by the Chair with notification beforehand.

2.    The members of the Advisory Committee attend all Advisory Committee meetings. In exceptional circumstances, and at the discretion of the Chair, an Advisory Committee member may delegate a representative to attend in his or her place, who shall have the member's full voting rights.

B.    Working Group and Task Force Meetings

1.    Meetings of Working Groups and Task Forces shall be arranged as necessary. Meetings shall be open for attendance by all unless specifically designated otherwise.

C.    Membership Meeting

1.    An open meeting of LARRP shall be held once a year, as arranged by the Chair, with notification beforehand, to transact such business as may come before the membership. This meeting is ordinarily held in conjunction with the annual SALALM conference.

2.    Membership attendance is not required at membership meetings, though a Member Representative or his or her designee must be present at the meeting in order to vote. In consideration of the international composition of membership, issues requiring voting by the membership should be presented in advance of official meetings to allow for input by members unable to attend meetings.

X. Administration, Finance, and Ownership

A.    Administration: LARRP shall be administered by CRL.
CRL shall assist with fiscal management (e.g., accounting, disbursements, invoicing, financial reporting, and audits); procurement of necessary legal services (review of contracts, agreements, templates for partnerships and collaborative activities, execution of cooperative agreements); project logistics (meeting arrangements, communications, including project reporting, notifications, shipping and delivery of materials, etc.); rights acquisition and management; licensing/managing subscription access to materials; and other project management activities as appropriate and feasible. Fees to cover costs of activity and base expenses of administration may be assessed to LARRP by CRL.
CRL shall provide financial reports to the Advisory Committee on an annual basis and at the request of the Advisory Committee.

B.    Fiscal Year: The fiscal year of LARRP begins on July 1 and ends on June 30 of the following year.

C.    Management and Disbursement of Funds: Projects and activities shall be funded by monies raised by LARRP, whether through grants, contributions, donations, fees, or other means. The Chair and Advisory Committee are responsible for fiscal decisions dealing with monies allocated to or raised by LARRP. These officers shall consult with the membership on a regular basis concerning dispersal of funds.
No part of the net earnings of LARRP shall be distributed to the benefit of any member or officer of LARRP nor any private individual (except that of reasonable compensation which may be paid for services rendered to or for LARRP).

D.    Fees: LARRP will, at its discretion, assess fees for membership and participation. Fees shall be used to support project initiatives, value-added services such as may become available, or activities that are funded through subscriptions, use fees, or mechanisms for cost-recovery.

E.    Ownership: Assets acquired by LARRP shall be the property of the Center for Research Libraries, unless otherwise specified and agreed to in writing.

F.    Dissolution: In the event of the dissolution or termination of LARRP, assets and property of LARRP shall remain with CRL. In the event of the dissolution of CRL, all remaining assets and property of LARRP, after payment of necessary expenses thereof, shall be returned in equal shares to LARRP’s Institutional Members.

XI. Amendments
Amendments to the bylaws may be proposed by any Institutional Member of LARRP. Amendments must be submitted in writing and shall be considered by the Member Representatives at the next membership meeting. A simple majority vote ensures the placement of the proposed amendment on a mail ballot.
Amendments to the bylaws shall be conducted by mail or electronic ballot. A proposed amendment is considered adopted if it receives a two-thirds affirmative vote from voting Member Representatives. The Chair shall arrange to add the adopted amendment to the official copies of the bylaws.

XII. Implementation
These bylaws shall come into force upon adoption by a two-thirds affirmative vote from voting Institutional Members.

Thirty-one North-American universities formed the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP) in 1994 to explore new ways of building Latin American Studies research collections. Due to the steady reduction of acquisition funding and a perceived overreliance on a handful of foreign book dealers, librarians from these universities were concerned that their collections no longer represented the diversity of Latin American cultural and scholarly production.

LARRP has partnered with the Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) [19] since its early years. LANIC still hosts several LARRP projects, including the Presidential Messages [20] database and the Latin American Open Archives Portal [21].

To fund LARRP’s long-standing Distributed Resources Project [22], participating members were asked to voluntarily allocate 7 percent of their annual Latin American Studies funds to acquire materials in a specific country or subject area. By the late 1990s, thirty LARRP institutions raised more than U.S. $300,000 a year for these materials. The project also energized bibliographers at participating institutions to pursue special acquisitions and funding for additional activities.

The initial LARRP projects were funded through the AAU [23] and ARL [24] by an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation [25] grant. Followup funding through two Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA [26]) grants from the U.S. Department of Education enabled LARRP to redesign and upgrade the LAPTOC database, to expand its membership into Latin America, and to create an Internet portal for full-text resources (see LAOAP) [21].

The project instituted an annual fee beginning in 2004 to maintain the database projects once grant funding ends. A matching grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation launched many of the Project’s initiatives. During the period 1999–2002, a $405,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education under the Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) program supported the development of a Latin American partnerships program and the enhancement of the Project’s database. The University of Texas at Austin General Libraries serves as the lead institution for the TICFIA grant. Under a second U.S. Department of Education TICFIA grant for 2002–05, LARRP received $585,000 to improve access to Latin American grey literature in the social sciences through an Open Archives Portal. The UCLA Library was the lead institution for this project.

In 2006, LARRP moved to its new administrative home at the Center for Research Libraries [27] (CRL). 

The Global Resources Network [28], based at the Center for Research Libraries [27], welcomes the active participation of  libraries wishing to further the goals of the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP).

CRL asks that a library formally join the Project if one or more of its staff are interested in participating in LARRP activities and in furthering its goals. LARRP is open to all institutions with interest in Latin American studies and information access. Institutions and their representatives contribute to project activities, serve on committees, and participate in the strategic governance of the project. As with any collaborative endeavor, LARRP’s success depends on institutional commitment and active participation.

Institutions wishing to become involved in LARRP will be asked to fill out a Participant Agreement form [29].

As of FY21, North American members of LARRP pay an annual membership fee of U.S. $900. 

To learn more about membership in LARRP, please contact Judy Alspach [30].

The LARRP Advisory Committee identifies possibilities, priorities, and desired outcomes for LARRP, as well as funding options and opportunities for strategic alliances. The committee, which includes faculty members, a library director, and librarians, helps ensure that scholars’ requirements and concerns remain in the forefront of the LARRP initiative. The Advisory Committee also provides project oversight.

Members of the LARRP Advisory Committee:

Angela Carreño, LARRP Chair 2020-2023
New York University

Judy Alspach, Ex officio member from the Center for Research Libraries
Center for Research Libraries

Jill Baron, Digital Initiatives Working Group Chair 2020-2023
Dartmouth College

Juan Cobo, Faculty Representative 2019-2022
University of California, Santa Barbara

Melissa Gasparotto, Resource Discovery Working Group Chair 2020-2023
New York Public Library

Ryan Lynch, Communication and Outreach Working Group Chair 2020-2023
University of Texas at Austin

Suzanne Schadl, Ex officio member from the Library of Congress

Sócrates Silva, Collection and Analysis Working Group Chair 2020-2023
Columbia University and Cornell University

Martin Tsang, At-large member 2020-2022
University of Miami

Seonaid Valiant, At-large member 2020-2022
Arizona State University

LARRP Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes and other information related to the ongoing work of the Advisory Committee may be found in the LARRP Advisory Committee Workspace [31].  Contact [4] the CRL representative for information on access to the Workspace.

LARRP holds an annual Members Meeting in conjunction with the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials conference. [32]  The LARRP Advisory Committee meets separately once a year, usually in early December.

Meeting Minutes and other information related to the ongoing work of LARRP may be found in the LARRP Workspace [3].

The LARRP Workspace is a wiki tool that members can access to review and edit or add content.  It is open only to LARRP Members.  Contact [4]the CRL representative for information on access to the Workspace.

LARRP has initiated a partnership with CLACSO [36] (Latin American Council on Social Sciences), JSTOR [37], and Libreria Garcia Cambeiro [38] 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:

• The publisher, CLACSO (Latin American Council on Social Sciences), promotes research and training in social sciences in Latin America and actively promotes open access. As part of their work, they publish approximately 300 titles per year. The sustainability of their publishing program faces funding challenges and could benefit from predictable library support for the frontlist. 
• JSTOR is a platform used in more than 170 countries around the world, and provides content and the tools that enables scholars and students to discover and use a growing list of more than 70,000 scholarly books in addition to their well-known journal archive. JSTOR hosts the DRM-free OA books and preserves them through Portico.
• Librería García Cambeiro is an Argentina-based bookseller that provides Argentine and Brazilian publications to U.S. and European academic libraries. García Cambeiro facilitated the communication with CLACSO representatives and handled the copyright clearance, bookfiles and metadata for publishing. In addition, García Cambeiro delivered MARC core bibliographic records for the record load in partner library catalogs.

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  

In keeping with its mission to promote free and equitable access to resources for the global research community, supporting all forms of scholarship, and seeking partnerships with institutions outside of North America, LARRP annually awards funds to selected proposals that aim to digitize content relevant to Latin American studies and make that content openly accessible. In addition to providing funding for these Digital Initiatives, LARRP is also interested in bibliographic projects and may provide funding to support the creation of bibliographies, finding aids, or indexes. 

LARRP funding can support direct costs for projects (including digitization costs, personnel salary and benefits, and other reasonable direct costs). However, LARRP’s policies do not allow for the inclusion of indirect/overhead costs. CRL and its constituent programs provide support for projects on a cost-reimbursable basis, and should not be construed as “grants.”

LARRP may also provide endorsements (non-monetary support) for open access projects that are beyond the scope of its budget but are nonetheless of scholarly interest. In some cases, proof of concept proposals will receive consideration.

LARRP recently approved projects to receive funding, and the work is still ongoing for these projects:

• Baja California Human Rights Commission Archive [39]
• Carteles  [40] 
• Digitizing Peru’s Print Revolution [41]
• Fondo Real de Cholula [42] 

Recently completed projects funded by LARRP include:

• A project to digitize the Conde de Montemar letters was undertaken with LARRP support at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The letters from the family of Don Diego José Carrillo de Albornoz (1724-1789), V Conde de Montemar, date from 1761 to 1799. This family, descendants of Spanish Conquistadors, was one of the most powerful in the Viceroyalty of Peru and in Spanish nobility. During this time period, the Carrillo de Albornoz siblings held more titles than any other family in Peru. 
  Link to collection [43]
   
• Funding from LARRP supported the analog to digital conversion of 160 reel-to-reel audio tapes selected from the Louis J. Boeri and Minín Bujones Collection of Cuban-American Radionovelas housed at the Latin American Library at Tulane University. These recordings of radio programs were produced and broadcast by America’s Production Inc. from Miami during the 1960s. They constitute a unique research resource that was trapped on aging, unstable audio tapes and was inaccessible due to a lack of functioning playback equipment. 
  Link to collection [44]
   
• LARRP provided funding for a three-year project in partnership between the University of New Mexico (UNM) and the Fideicomiso Archivo Plutarco Elias Calles and Fernando Torreblanca (FAPECFT) in Mexico City. The partnership has produced a bilingual digitization and open access and discovery project that makes physical documents held at the FAPECFT available in a publicly accessible platform hosted by UNM, where documents can be searched in Spanish and English.
  Link to collection [45]
   
• The digitization of the University of Miami’s collection of oversized volumes of the nineteenth century Cuban periodical La Gaceta de la Habana was funded partially by LARRP. As the newspaper of record for the last half century of the colonial government, the social, cultural, legislative, and commercial information printed on the pages of la Gaceta de la Habana is of interest to a wide variety of scholars. 
  Link to collection [46]
   
• Financial support from LARRP enabled the digitization of a portion of the Genaro García Collection at the University of Texas at Austin. Materials in the Genaro García Collection relate primarily to the history of Mexico from the sixteenth through the early twentieth centuries, and concern Mexico's politics, culture, linguistics, religion, literature, and archeology. The oversize portion of the collection, the bulk of which is from the colonial era, contains manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, lithographs, and ephemera, acquired by García during his career as a historian and collector of Mexican materials. 
  Link to collection [47]
   
• LARRP has funded the digitization of several newspaper titles that are now openly accessible through the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC).  These newspapers include: 
  • The Herald [48] (St. Croix) holdings from 1915-1925
  • El Mundo [49] (San Juan, Puerto Rico) holdings from 1936
  • a selection of Jewish-Mexican titles (Hanoar Hazioni [50], Kesher [51], Nuestra vida [52], Vida Habanera [53], and others)
  • Noticias de Hoy [54] (Havana, Cuba) holdings from 1959-1964
     
• Funding from LARRP supported the digitization of extensive hidden collections of ephemeral materials from Latin American that are now accessible through Princeton University’s Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera. With LARRP’s support, Princeton had more than 10,000 pieces of ephemera (over 58,000 page images) digitized and openly accessible to researchers. 
  Link to collection [55]
   
• A project to create Digital Collections for Latin American and U.S. Latino Spanish Language Research at the University of Southern California received LARRP funding support. The first phase of this project digitized 156 hours of recordings of Spanish speakers from audiocassettes. This part of the collection includes recordings made in Southern California in 1976 and 1978, and in Santiago, Chile in 1978-1992. The second phase of the project created orthographic transcriptions for the corpora digitized in the first phase. 
  Link to collection [56]
   
• LARRP funded a pilot project at Vanderbilt University to preserve and digitize 426 audiocassettes of the Manuel Zapata Olivella Collection.  The majority of the tapes selected were Colombian ethnographic interviews, with a focus on Afro-Colombians and indigenous groups. The interviews were conducted in the 1970s and covered a wide range of topics, from foodways to slave ancestry. 
  Link to collection [57]

Distributed resources is 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 interconnected network of collections. The total reallocated funding is more than $170,000 per year.

The participants also provide online bibliographic records as quickly as possible and make the majority of these materials available through interlibrary loan. The program is described in more depth in the article "The Latin Americanist Research Resources Project: A New Direction for Monographic Cooperation? [58]" by Dan C. Hazen. You can also view the most recent Distributed Resources Report [59].

Specific member commitments are listed by LARRP Member Institution [60] and by Subject Area [61].

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 [65]

For further information, contact LARRP [4].

The Presidential Messages database [20]  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 [4].

The Latin American Open Archives Portal (LAOAP) [21] 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 [66] (FLACSO-Chile) and Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica [67] (CIRMA).

For further information, contact LARRP [4].