Through its Digital Initiatives, LARRP provides funds for the production of digital resources on Latin America. LARRP reviews and approves proposals for new digital projects annually. More information [1]
Through LARRP's Distributed Resources Project, participating member libraries have agreed to reallocate a portion of their existing collections budget for Latin America toward enhanced coverage of 'non-core' materials, in order to collect more deeply in specific areas of institutional specialization. More information [2]
LARRP has initiated an Open Access Monographs Project to aggregate funding and make select Latin American monographs openly accessible online. This innovative partnership includes CLACSO, JSTOR and Libreria Garcia Cambeiro. More information [3]
LARRP has initiated a partnership with CLACSO [4] (Latin American Council on Social Sciences), JSTOR [5], and Libreria Garcia Cambeiro [6] 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
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:
Recently completed projects funded by LARRP include:
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? [26]" by Dan C. Hazen. You can also view the most recent Distributed Resources Report [27].
Specific member commitments are listed by LARRP Member Institution [28] and by Subject Area [29].
Listed below are the subjects that LARRP institutions have agreed to acquire in additional depth.
Institutional contact information can be found on the LARRP Member List [30] page.
Listed below are the subjects that LARRP institutions have agreed to acquire in additional depth.
Institutional contact information can be found on the LARRP Member List [30] page.
Links
[1] https://www.crl.edu/grn/larrp/current-projects/digital-initiatives
[2] https://www.crl.edu/grn/larrp/current-projects/distributed-resources
[3] https://www.crl.edu/grn/larrp/current-projects/open-access-monographs-project
[4] https://www.clacso.org/
[5] https://www.jstor.org/
[6] http://www.latbook.com/EN/home.aspx
[7] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/LARRP%20Proposal%2020%20-%20Baja%20California%20Human%20Rights%20Commission%20Archives%20Case_public%20version_0.pdf
[8] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/LARRP%20Proposal%2020%20-%20Carteles%20dLOC_public%20version_0.pdf
[9] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/Proposal%2019%20-%20Digitizing%20Peru%27s%20Print%20Revolution_public%20version_0.pdf
[10] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/Proposal%2019%20-%20Fundo%20Real%20de%20Cholula_public%20version_0.pdf
[11] https://quest.library.illinois.edu/Conde-de-Montemar-Letters/
[12] https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:radionovelas
[13] https://econtent.unm.edu/digital/collection/fapecft/search
[14] http://catalog.crl.edu/record=b2892421~S1
[15] https://collections.lib.utexas.edu/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_field=search&q=genaro+garcia&search=
[16] https://www.dloc.com/AA00040758/00002
[17] https://ufdc.ufl.edu/CA03599022/00001
[18] https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00065680/00001
[19] https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00052698/00002/
[20] https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00065526/00001
[21] https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00064671/00001
[22] https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00022089/00001
[23] https://lae.princeton.edu/
[24] http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/digital/collection/p15799coll22
[25] https://mzo.library.vanderbilt.edu/
[26] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/LARRP_New_Direction_for_Monographic_Cooperation.pdf
[27] https://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/Distributed%20Resources%20Report%202017-2018.pdf
[28] https://www.crl.edu/grn/larrp/current-projects/distributed-resources/responsibilities-by-institution
[29] https://www.crl.edu/grn/larrp/current-projects/distributed-resources/responsibilities-by-subject
[30] https://www.crl.edu/grn/larrp/member-list