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Presentation that belongs to the Course-workshop on strategies for agricultural information and new tools, Managua, Nicaragua, 8 to 10 October 2013. The course / workshop focused on interoperability issues, reusability and cooperation in the context of agricultural information. This workshop was the practical experiences of IICA, FAO, and the community of practice AIMS, a website that deals disseminate standards and best practices for information management to support the right to food, sustainable agriculture and rural development.

That man is a social being is something known for some time, but maybe it is now with the amount of sophisticated means we have to communicate, when we see it clearly. In addition to interconnections, we also find advantages with the integration of functions in one product or service. Historical experience demonstrates the advantages of integration: many databases together in one online host, service Dialog OneSearch simultaneous search, portals, mashups, social networks, catalogs, collectors (harvesters), federated search ... Our comfort is enhanced if we have all at hand or, at least, interconnected. Here we present the interconnection of 3 products: the E-LIS repository, the EXIT Directory, and the IraLIS platform to standardize author names. As conclusions we can say that man has a latent need for interconnection, as we have a "hypertext" nature, and in general all the integrated services and devices are succesful, since they produce an added usability.

We carry out a quick review of open access on its two routes: golden one, author pays, journals; and green, repositories. The high visibility that documents acquire when deposited in repositories is commented. We discuss the features of E-LIS and its stats. We conclude that Andalusia has a creditable 4th place in library and information science among the Spanish regions. The Faculty of Communication and Documentation, University of Granada (UGR) and its bibliometric studies of science is prominent. The percentages of E-LIS are consistent with the production of documents collected in the ISI, Scopus and Lista databases. Granada (and Cordoba) are above average. The E-LIS team encourages Andalusian authors and researchers to continue depositing in that repository, that was created six years ago.