DSpace Open Access Repository System
Introduction
DSpace is a web application, allowing researchers and scholars to publish documents and data. While DSpace shares some feature overlap with content management systems and document management systems, the DSpace repository software serves a specific need as a digital archives system, focused on the long-term storage, access and preservation of digital content thus making DSpace the software of choice for academic, non-profit, and commercial organizations building open digital repositories. It is free and easy to install “out of the box” and completely customizable to fit the needs of any organization.
DSpace preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs and data sets. And with an ever-growing community of developers committed to continuously expanding and improving the software, each DSpace installation benefits from the next.
History
DSpace, the software and the community, is one of the largest of its kind spanning the globe for over 20 years.
- The first public version of DSpace was released in November 2002, as a joint effort between developers from MIT and HP Labs.
- Following the first user group meeting in March 2004, a group of interested institutions formed the DSpace Federation which determined the governance of future software development by adopting the Apache Foundation’s community development model as well as establishing the DSpace Committer Group.
- In July 2007 as the DSpace user community grew larger, HP and MIT jointly formed the DSpace Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that provided leadership and support.
- In May 2009 collaboration on related projects and growing synergies between the DSpace Foundation and the Fedora Commons organization led to the joining of the two organizations to pursue their common mission in a not-for-profit called DuraSpace.
- DuraSpace and Lyrasis merged in July 2019. The DSpace Program is led by DSpace Governance with support from its organizational home, Lyrasis.
- DSpace 7.0 was released on Aug 2, 2021. The press release for 7.0 was translated into a number of languages: English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, and Português.
Global Features
- Free open source software
- Completely customizable to fit user needs
- Manage and preserve all format of digital content (PDF, Word, JPEG, MPEG, TIFF files)
- Apache SOLR based search for metadata and full text contents
- UTF-8 Support
- Granular group based access control
- Optimized for Google Scholar indexing
- Interface available in 22 languages
Our Services
We provides DSpace tailored services for your Institution.
- System Installation
- Migration
- Implementation
- Customization of User Interface
- Integration with other platforms such as Google Scholar, OpenAIRE, Scopus, Web of Science, handle.net, etc...
- Trainings