Dominique Babini is from Argentina. Following her doctorate in political science (thesis: national information policy), she has attended postgraduate studies in documentation and librarianship at the University of Buenos Aires. Dominique has been active in developing social science information networks in Latin America and has done consulting for IDRC (Canada), UNDP, Unesco, the Argentine government, International Social Science Council, International Committee for Social Science Documentation and Information and private foundations.

Since 1983 she has been the coordinator of CLACSO´s information activities and since 1998 coordinator of CLACSO´s network of social science virtual libraries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Representing CLACSO, Dominique has coordinated in the period 1991-1995 the International Development Information Network (IDIN) an inter-regional information exchange program among social science networks of Asia (ADIPA, Kuala-Lumpur), Africa (CODESRIA, Dakar), Latin America (CLACSO, Buenos Aires), Arab countries (AICARDES, Tunes)and Europe (EADI, Tilburg).

The Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) is an international non-governmental organization with status of consultative relationship with Unesco. Created in 1967, the Council now brings together 195 social science research centers and graduate programs in 21 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

The network of virtual libraries provides a decentralized open source platform for dissemination and access to research results, with advanced search facility for searching in metadata and in the full-text of digital books, journals, working documents and theses (www.clacso.org.ar/biblioteca).

Dominique is a member of
- Scientific Committee, Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal-Redalyc
-International Editorial Advisory Board of "Information Development" Journal (Sage Publications)
- Scholarly Research and Resources Section of the Latin American Studies Association-LASA
- SALALM Electronic Resources Committee
- Board of the Argentine association of information networks RECIARIA
- Academic Committee of the 2nd. Iberoamerican Librarianship Congress (Buenos Aires, April 2007).

Selection of publications or presentations in English:

• Web access to social science journals in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean – the case of CLACSO´s network. First International Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Scholarly Publishing Conference, Simon Fraser University (Canada), July 11-13, 2007. Access in E-LIS - E-prints in Library and Information Science.
• Review in English of her recent book: Babini, Dominique; Fraga, Jorge (compiladores). Edición electrónica, bibliotecas virtuales y portales para las ciencias sociales en América Latina y el Caribe, CLACSO, 2006.
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  Link to full text of the book
• “Preparing authors, publishers and librarians to work together building open access digital libraries”, en Inasp Newsletter, number 32, Summer 2006, p.3
  
• “Poverty research projects, researchers and research publications in Latin America and the Caribbean”, en Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) vol.13 No.2, May 2006. p.3
• "Building a cooperative digital libary with open source software " en Information Development, 2006 22: 90-91.
• Babini, Dominique; Smart, Pippa. “Using digital libraries to provide online access to social science journals in Latin America”.
  Acceso en Learned Publishing , vol.19, No.2, April 2006, p.107-113.
• Babini, Dominique (2005). Cooperative Virtual Libraries: training librarians and editors via the Internet. IFLA Journal, vol. 31 (2005), Nro. 3, p 229-233.
• Babini, Dominique (2005). "Latin America and the Caribbean Social Sciences Virtual Libraries Network". In Panel New Trends in Electronic Publishing in Latin America-Emerging Models for E-Journals and Digital Libraries. 50º Annual Conference of the Seminar on Acquisition of Latin America Library Materials (SALALM), University of Florida Conference Center, Gainesville-Florida, April 16-19, 2005.
• Babini, Dominique (2004). "Sharing experiences about developing a regional social science virtual library". International Network INASP Newletter, nro. 26, June 2004, pp. 4
• Babini, Dominique (2004). "Training virtual library network´s staff using the Internet: the experience of the Latin American and the Caribbean Social Science Virtual Library online course", Library Management, vol. 25 number 1/2, 2004, pp. 72-78.
• "Using open source software Greenstone for a network of digital collections". INASP Newsletter Nro. 30, November 2005

List of publications and presentations in Spanish