LATIN AMERICA SOCIAL SCIENCES COUNCIL (CLACSO)

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LATIN AMERICA SOCIAL SCIENCES COUNCIL (CLACSO)
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LATIN AMERICA SOCIAL SCIENCES COUNCIL
(CLACSO)

• 130 research and training institutions in
• 19 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean
• 5.000 full-time researchers

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CLACSOs REGIONAL VIRTUAL CAMPUS

• 20 regional research groups (teleworking)
• Regional fellowships programs (teleworking)
• Regional courses (distance education)
• Collaborative inf. network (databases)
• Collaborative books

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CLACSO members printed production

• Estimated annual printed production
• 500 books
• 2000 periodical articles
• 10 is full-text in the Web
• 120 books and periodical articles
• in CLACSOs Virtual Library
• Other in institutional websites

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CLACSOs COLLABORATIVE BOOKS

• Selection of subjects for regional collaborative
  research and regional fellowhips contests
• Research activity and group discussion
• Editorial review of research papers
• E-publishing in Virtual Library (pdf)
• Printed distribution

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WORKING FOR SUSTAINABILITY

• 1980-1990 academic networking for bibliographic
  databases (REDUC, BIREME, ALIDE, CLACSO, etc.).
  Regional leaders CLADES, UNESCO, BIREME, IDRC,
  Red de Redes de Información de América Latina
• 2000 academic networking for e-publishing and
  e-libraries? Regional leaders BIREME,
  Univ.Colima, ...
• Grants ICASUR?, UNESCO?

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Overall regional needs

• REGIONAL RESEARCH ON E-PUBLISHING AND E-LIBRARIES
• Trends / solutions review / regional needs / open
  standards
• Grants for regional research
• Seed-money for testing
• REGIONAL TRAINING
• Leaders
• Editors and librarians

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Overall regional needs

• STANDARDS AND METHODOLOGIES
• INDEXING / METADATA/ THESAURUS
• SEARCHING TOOLS
• WEBSITE MANAGEMENT
• ONLINE UPDATING OF VIRTUAL LIBRARY AND DATABASES
• E-COMMERCE
• Small units of information
• Fair revenues for all

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Overall regional needs

• LEGAL ISSUES
• INSTITUTIONAL AGREEMENTS FOR COOPERATIVE
  INITIVATIVES
• DIGITAL RIGHTS STANDARDS
• Digital edition of printed documents
• Born digital documents
• DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT

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SUSTAINABILITY!!!!!

• Academic sustainability
• Economic sustainability