Sistema Nacional de Repositorios Digitales SNRD

Overview

The Sistema Nacional de Repositorios Digitales (SNRD) is Argentina's national network of open-access digital repositories for scientific and technological output. It is an initiative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation and the Inter-Institutional Science and Technology Council (CICyT), operating under the Electronic Library of Science and Technology (Biblioteca Electrónica de Ciencia y Tecnología).

History and Founding

The SNRD was established by Ministerial Resolution No. 469/2011 on March 27, 2011, with the aim of building an interoperable network of institutional digital repositories that increases the visibility and impact of Argentina's scientific and technological production. The legal framework was strengthened by National Law No. 26,899 of November 2013 (regulated in 2016), which mandates that publicly funded research institutions must make their output available through open-access repositories.

Collections and Holdings

The SNRD aggregates content from more than 40 institutional repositories across Argentina's national system of science, technology, and innovation. The network provides access to over 270,000 publications, including journal articles, theses, dissertations, technical reports, and conference papers produced by Argentine researchers. The underlying software platform is D-NET, developed by the European DRIVER project. The SNRD is also federated with LA Referencia, the regional open-access network for Latin America.

Access

The portal is freely accessible at repositoriosdigitales.mincyt.gob.ar. Users may search across all member repositories simultaneously.