Los repositorios institucionales y de acceso abierto en Costa Rica

This article includes a brief discussion about the institutional repositories concept and how they have been achieving the most important way of information democracy and access to the world knowledge. Herewith, it presents the most important Costa Rican initiatives at the public sector with a brief description and characteristics they have. Most of these initiatives are institutional archives of official documents, but also we can find specialized ones. There is an analysis of the limitations, scopes and future prospects of these described situation in order to call the reader’s attention to accelerate its development and presence on the web. It concludes that the Costa Rican repositories are in an incipient stage and suggests some ways to advance and impact on the Costa Rican society