Latin Americanist Research Resources Project
LARRP is a consortium of research libraries that seeks to increase free and open access to information in support of learning and scholarship in Latin American Studies. It mobilizes collaborative activities among individuals and organizations on a global scale but focuses on relationships within the academic library community.
LARRP achieves its mission by:
- Providing access to information that supports all forms of scholarship
- Promoting free and equitable access to these resources for the global scholarly community
- Actively seeking partnerships with institutions that contribute to the flow of information
LARRP projects include:
- Latin American Open Archives
Portal (LAOAP)
LAOAP, a portal service, provides access to social sciences grey literature produced in Latin America by research institutes, nongovernmental organizations, and peripheral agencies. It encompasses working documents, pre-prints, research papers, statistical documents, and other difficult-to-access materials not controlled by commercial publishers. - Presidential
Messages
The Presidential Messages database contains digital images of more than 75,000 pages of Mexican and Argentinian presidential speeches from the early 19th century to the present. - Distributed
Resources
An agreement between participating North American libraries designed to strengthen the collective coverage of monographs and other resources produced in Latin America. Through the concerted reallocation of library collection budgets, enhanced coverage of "noncore" materials is provided in an interconnected network of collections. The participants also provide online bibliographic records as quickly as possible and make the majority of these materials available through interlibrary loan. - LARRP Services
A list of potential services and products that may become available for interested LARRP participants. Information about LARRP Services is available on the LARRP Workspace.
LARRP's annual Members Meetings are held at the SALALM conferences.
Meeting Minutes and other information related to the ongoing work of LARRP may be found in the LARRP Workspace.
The LARRP Workspace is a wiki tool that members can access to review and edit or add content. It is open to LARRP Members only. Contact the CRL representative for information on access to the Workspace.
