COAR » Landmark agreement between OpenAIRE and LA Referencia on repository aligning

"COAR has been making great progress in terms of aligning repository networks over the last several months. You will have likely seen some of the news items related to many of these activities coming over the COAR website. Most recently came the landmark agreement between OpenAIRE and LA Referencia to adopt common guidelines for their repository networks. Beginning in 2016, the LA Referencia network, representing 8 national nodes of open access repositories in Latin America, will begin to implement the OpenAIRE guidelines. These guidelines define standardized metadata elements and vocabularies for repositories enabling them to expose their content in a common format. OpenAIRE and LA Referencia represent the two largest and most well-developed regional repository networks, representing about half of the world’s open access repositories. Implementing common guidelines will ensure more seamless integration of those repositories and ultimately improve the discovery of content and allow for the adoption of other value added services across the two networks ..."