DSpace

DSpace is one of the first open source software platforms to store, manage and distribute its collections in digital format. As much of the world's content is now being developed and disseminated in digital format, the DSpace software supports next-generation digital archiving that is more permanent and shareable than current analog archives. DSpace can support a wide variety of artifacts, including books, theses, 3D digital scans of objects, photographs, film, video, research data sets and other forms of content.

DSpace is available to anyone free of charge under the BSD open source license, which allows research institutions to run it as-is, or to modify and extend it as needed.

DSpace captures your data in any format – in text, video, audio, and data. It distributes it over the web. It indexes your work, so users can search and retrieve your items. It preserves your digital work over the long term. DSpace provides a way to manage your research materials and publications in a professionally maintained repository to give them greater visibility and accessibility over time.

Benefits of Using DSpace

• Getting your research results out quickly, to a worldwide audience
• Reaching a worldwide audience through exposure to search engines such as Google
• Storing reusable teaching materials that you can use with course management systems
• Archiving and distributing material you would currently put on your personal website
• Storing examples of students’ projects (with the students’ permission)
• Showcasing students’ theses (again with permission)
• Keeping track of your own publications/bibliography
• Having a persistent network identifier for your work, that never changes or breaks
• No more page charges for images. You can point to your images’ persistent identifiers in your published articles.