Latin American Open Science adds good news with the reincorporation of theMexican Network of Institutional Repositories (REMERI) to LA Reference. This addition strengthens the organization with a total of 12 member countries.

REMERI was created in 2012 with the initial purpose of building the technical node that would represent Mexico in LA Reference. From then until November 2019, the REMERI node was part of this regional effort; and now after a two-year pause for administrative reasons, LA Reference returns to harvest the research products of this node.

This reincorporation occurs thanks to the joint work of Carlos Casasús López Hermosa, General Director of the [University Corporation for the Development of Internet 2 - CUDI] (https://www.cudi.edu.mx/) of Mexico; Luis Eliécer Cadenas, Executive Director of RedCLARA and the Board of Directors of LA Reference.**

Carlos Casasús, detailed the main benefits that Mexico gains with this decision: “for CUDI and the REMERI community, rejoining LA Reference as a technical node in Mexico, allows us to give a new boost to open access to the scientific production of Mexican higher education and research institutions, contributing to the academic visibility of the authors and researchers of our country, and giving us, as representatives of the National Research and Education Network in RedCLARA, the opportunity to collaborate and join efforts in favor of Open Science in Mexico and Latin America.”**

For his part, Luis Eliécer Cadenas, Executive Director of RedCLARA applauded this decision that makes the contribution of the LA Reference project greater: “RedCLARA celebrates the reincorporation of Mexico in the LA Reference harvest due to the great importance that Mexico has as a producing country in science, technology and innovation, of a large number of capacities that were, for now, relegated, and that now with this reincorporation we have been able to recover. We are always available and interested in contributing to countries being able to always remain active, functioning, within the framework of this initiative. We only have to celebrate what this reincorporation means.”

Finally, Bianca Amaro, president of LA Reference, underlined the strengthening that this reintegration means: “the reintegration of Mexico into LA Reference through the REMERI Network is very important for our performance as a Latin American bloc in matters of Open Science. As I always say, together we are stronger and we teach everyone the power and quality of Latin American Science. Mexico was one of the countries present at the creation of LA Reference. For everything, we welcomed “Mexico with the open arms of someone who meets an old friend again.”