LA Referencia.
Latin American and Spanish Network
for Open Science
LA Referencia supports national Open Science strategies in Latin America and Spain through its range of services.
Browse scientific research outputs in Open Access
What steps should I take if my research or institutional repository is not available in LA Referencia?
LA Referencia is an aggregator that harvests metadata from the repositories of the participating countries. For this reason, it is not possible to directly deposit your research outputs. However, you can find the necessary information by clicking the following link.
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Basic installation and configuration of DSpace 7.5
Guillermo Esteban Murillo Goussen, LA Referencia technician, explains the details of the basic installation and configuration of DSpace 7.5.
Go to resourceAccess to publicly funded scientific output data: DATACIENCIA
Panelist: Carolina González.
Go to resourceExperiences in migrating DSpace institutional repositories
Speaker: Ariel Lira, PREBI-SEDICI, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.
Go to resourceRegional expansion and coverage
Explains how COAR IRD, ROR, national systems and direct work with organizations extend coverage to member and non-member countries.
View pageMultilingual semantic search
Explains how search by meaning complements keyword retrieval and lets you test queries in seven languages over the LA Referencia collection.
View pageSelective protection against bots and scraping
Explains the Anubis and Nginx Proxy Manager solution to distinguish authorized academic services, identified scrapers and regular browsers.
View pageSelecting a model for multilingual semantic search
Explains what an embeddings model is, how the alternatives were evaluated and why BGE-M3 was selected for the first implementation.
View pagedARK: persistent identifiers as a regional public good
Explains the problem, the ARK scheme and the decentralized conceptual model the project aims to consolidate in the region.
View pagedARK 2.0: technical architecture and multi-site operation
Explains the attribution and resolution cycle, the APIs, blockchain, IPFS and the infrastructure model distributed across sites.
View pageRegional Dataverse Alpha
The LA Referencia Alpha environment is operational. The page documents the baseline, authorized examples, training and upcoming pilots to build regional capacity.
View pageIntroduction to data management and curation in Dataverse
The first cohort started on August 24, 2026. The 16-hour asynchronous MOOC releases four modules progressively and links training to practice in Dataverse Alpha.
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