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The institutional memory of the Central Argentina Republic Bank is formed by a large quantity of books, studies, publications and documents published by the Central Bank during its 75 years of existence. Bearing in mind that, among other meanings, memory means "reminiscing", "trace", it is important to realize the economic identity of the Argentina - without forgetting the present - so that it can be interpreted by successive generations.

The COVID-19 crisis has generated a scenario of exceptional dimensions, due to the amount of data that is shared, and its global dimension. Much of this information —especially visual—, is transmitted through social networks. How will this collective heritage be preserved? What institutions, organizations and media are betting on citizen stories? This communication presents initiatives carried out in Spain to collect and preserve citizen information about the pandemic. They contemplate both the professional contribution and that generated by the audiences. The preliminary analysis makes it possible to draw first conclusions about the different models that have been applied, as well as the changes detected with respect to previous emergencies.

Parliamentary regulations for the preservation of electronic records

Research to identify the spanish researchers common habits and experiences about row research data sharing and management

Summary and conclusions obtained from the OpenDataScience project: resources for the management and preservation of open research data ODASCI

In 2010, University of Buenos Aires, School of Agriculture Central Library, inaugurates FAUBA DIGITAL, its institutional repository, initially with two collections: theses and graduate works, and theses and postgraduate works. Initially, Moodle was used as the platform for uploading files, with the idea of developing a tailored interface in the future. The opportunity only came at the end of 2013, when the School Information Technology Unit (UTI) began to carry out this type of development. It was proposed to have a web form for teachers and students to deposit files corresponding to their academic and research work, and to automate some logistics tasks related to digital files upload (communication with the depositor, uploaded files control and monitoring, files storage, etc.) tasks that the Technical Processes Department performed manually. The design, programming of the software and coordination of the project have been in charge of the UTI based on the functional requirements prepared by the library staff team, led by the Heads of Technical Processes and Library Technology Departments, who in turn were in charge of actively participate in all stages of the project and carry out three “testing” stages. After its launch in June 2016, the expected result is that it will facilitate the delivery of files and optimize Technical Processes Staff work (tasks of monitoring the delivery of files, publication permissions and file naming and management). The self-archiving form was inaugurated together with the Scientific Articles collection published by Faculty teachers (almost 900 articles available in full text on the school intranet since 2010). This development is an example that although a lot of energy is needed to start a project of this nature, which involves two departments of the Library and Information Technology Unit, while the usual current tasks must continue to be carried out, when it combines staff qualification and training, clear and documented task analysis and objective, the right moment and conditions, as well as a share of perseverance, it is possible in public university libraries to make progress, taking advantage of resources available in the institution itself

One of the strategic investments of the European Union is to make cultural heritage accessible by keeping and spreading it at the same time as boosting economic activity from the point of view of the defense of the public asset. Europeana, the project that defends the conservation and quality of the European collective memory, faces the challenge by looking for the balance among the quality of the transmission of information, the generation of income and the reduction of the barriers to usage in order to bring new users. This paper focuses on the role that the public library can have in the spreading of a new concept of cultural heritage and memory that helps to make Europeana more visible and provide it with more contents.

Here are introduced the main initiatives developed in the context of the Open Access Movement in Uruguay. The aim is to identify the tendencies in relation to the implementation of the two ways of open access (green way and golden way) at the Science and Technology National System. The opinions of the decision makers are also gathered, about the opportunities that open access offers and the need to implement public policies in that regard. A method is applied that includes bibliographic review, website consulting and interviews to qualified informants. The project originates from the research group “Studies on the Scientific Production”, which develops its activities in the context of the Programa de Desarrollo Académico de la Información y la Comunicación (PRODIC) at the Universidad de la República (UDELAR). Its purpose is to promote the cross-discipline and inter institutional spaces that analyze the open access issue in the context of the national general policies about information. At the moment, the group is carrying out the research and development project (R+D) “Institutional repository model as an alternative for the social, scientific and technologic country development”, funded by Scientific Research Sectorial Committee from UDELAR. The execution of the said project gave information about the situation regarding open access around government and education authorities, and decision makers. We identified and described the publications of the active researchers of the Researchers National System (SNI), with the aim of getting to know the different models of scientific communication in each knowledge area, and obtaining empiric elements to develop an institutional repository model according to its own special features. The aim is to contribute to the creation and implementation of national policies that motivate the green way as an alternative to guarantee the open access and the bibliographic control of the national scientific production. These lines of research were recently created and they will gradually become established. They are obtaining visibility in the different national areas and have installed this issue in the current discussion agenda. Consequently Uruguay is not out of date compared to the international context and is going forward in benefit of the scientific and technologic development. We hope that the research results will be reference elements for the creation of new policies of open access that can meet the country needs and be updated with the international tendencies.

This study analyze the preservation and reuse policies in row research data from different journals selected from every thematic area from the Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science-JCR).

Archives, libraries, museums and documentation centers were memory institutions par excellence. Changes arise in the management of cultural and scientific heritage: Digital preservation: semantic web and cloud Information dissemination and diffusion: open Access Government transparency: o-gov and Opendata

Digital preservation training at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima (2013)