Open Access to Mexican Academic Production

"Based on the result of the develop of educonector.info, the aim of raising awareness of the open education movement, was achieved. First, among the twelve researchers of the participating universities. Later the students and teachers of their universities. When we worked with the technical committee, we learned about the OAI-PMH protocol, the Dublin Core metadata standard, the structure of the repositories and search engines in addition to Creative Commons licensing. The experience to work from different States of the Mexican Republic was one of the most significant challenges, it demonstrates that is possible if all the researchers are committed with the project. The use of Internet 2 was very useful for the remote meetings. About the 9 repositories, related to meta-connector, 8 use a Dspace platform, and Dublin Core metadata. Dublin Core facilitates the repositories harvesting, but is not the only metadata standard that we can use. The Simple Dublin Core standard, does not provide many of the attributes needed to tag mobile or multimedia OER, like photos or podcast; therefore, a possible future research work, will be about the inclusion of LOM metadata to repositories. Is important to write a guidance for setting up repositories over GNU software, that allow the technicians save time and money in the development process...."