ECLAC launches free digital repository with more than 35,000 publications

More than 35,000 publications from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) -from the first one released in 1948 to the most recent- can be consulted and downloaded digitally at the repository launched during the organization's Thirty-fifth session, held in the Peruvian capital.


Digital repositories allow us to store, index, preserve and disseminate all of an institution's publications in just one place. ECLAC's repository is available via the following link: http://repositorio.cepal.org/.

With the work of more than 8,000 authors in five languages, this archive is open to all users interested in learning about the Commission's work, especially policy makers, researchers, scholars and students. In total, the official documents on file exceed 2.5 million pages.




"In line with our open-access policy, we're making available to the international community all the documents that have given shape to ECLAC's thinking, which for more than six decades has aimed to contribute to the development of Latin American and Caribbean countries," said Alicia Bárcena, ECLAC's Executive Secretary.

Thanks to this new product, developed by ECLAC's Library, it will be easier to search and download free-of-charge the documents produced by this regional organization, which include institutional books, annual reports, joint publications, series, magazines, bulletins, and documents from conferences and meetings, as well as multimedia resources. The system searches by full text, increasing the likelihood of obtaining results.

To be stored in the repository, documents must meet some specific criteria: they must be official, final versions; contain public information; and serve to reflect institutional memory. ECLAC must also have the copyright on them.

The repository aims to increase the visibility and impact of ECLAC's work and guarantee the lasting and safe preservation of its intellectual property in the long term, among other goals.