creators_name: Babini, Dominique
creators_name: Smart, Pippa
type: journalp
datestamp: 2006-04-28
lastmod: 2008-11-19 09:13:24
metadata_visibility: show
title: Using digital libraries to provide online access to social science journals in Latin America
ispublished: pub
subjects: EB
subjects: HN
subjects: HR
full_text_status: public
keywords: digital libraries - social sciences - e-journals - portals
open access - Latin America - Caribbean - e-publishing
abstract: : There is a strong history of social
science research within Latin America, but its
visibility (both within and outside the region) has
been low for reasons of language and print
distribution. The introduction of the Internet and
online publication makes this information potentially
more visible to the global research community, and
within Latin America several organizations have
undertaken to exploit this opportunity. The
approaches taken show how collaboration between
countries, and particularly between librarians and
publishers, can provide innovative solutions. The
CLACSO project uses a digital library model as a
publishing platform for its member journals and this
has provided a successful – and hopefully
sustainable – model.
date: 2006
date_type: published
publication: Learned Publishing
volume: 19
publisher: Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)
pagerange: 107-113
refereed: TRUE
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citation: Babini, Dominique and Smart, Pippa Using digital libraries to provide online access to social science journals in Latin America. Learned Publishing, 2006, vol. 19, pp. 107-113. [cited var currentTime = new Date();var month = currentTime.getMonth() + 1;var day = currentTime.getDate();var year = currentTime.getFullYear();document.write(month + "/" + day + "/" + year)]. Available from WWW: http://eprints.rclis.org/6131/. [Journal Article (Print/Paginated)]
document_url: http://eprints.rclis.org/6131/1/107-114.pdf