For developing regions with a strong tradition in building cooperative
bibliographic databases, accessing the documents cited in cooperative bibliographies has proved to be a very frustrating experience. Such is the case for Latin American countries, which share the use of…

With the aim of promoting and enabling internet access to, and dissemination
of, research results from member institutes, CLACSO, together with publishers and librarians from member institutes, coordinates a Latin American Social Science Virtual Libraries Network.

During the 2000s, Latin America has contributed to the
development of alternative journal portals intended to
improve the visibility of and access to regionally published
social science journals. The relatively poor visibility of regional journals and their authors is often…