Portugal’s publicly-funded Repositório Cien­tí­fico de Acesso Aberto de Por­tu­gal (RCAAP) was recently launched at the 3rd Open Access con­fer­ence that took place at Uni­ver­sity of Minho on Decem­ber 15 – 16, 2008. RCAAP gath­ers con­tent from 10 insti­tu­tional repos­i­to­ries from across the country.

The new open access repos­i­tory cur­rently indexes more than 13091 doc­u­ments from 10 repos­i­to­ries. The project is funded by the Knowl­edge Soci­ety Agency (UMIC) and will be tech­ni­cally main­tained by the National Sci­en­tific Com­pu­ta­tions Foun­da­tion (FCCN).

The 10 repos­i­to­ries that are cur­rently con­tribut­ing to this main cen­tralised repos­i­tory are mainly uni­ver­sity DSpace-based repos­i­to­ries or similar.

Approx­i­mately 10% are in Eng­lish.  Top­ics appear to be mainly biomedical.

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, Dec. 19, 2008.