Introducing DSpace

DSpace is a groundbreaking digital repository system that captures, stores, indexes, preserves, and redistributes an organization's research data.

What Can DSpace Do?

Jointly developed by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Labs, the DSpace software platform serves a variety of digital archiving needs.

Research institutions worldwide use DSpace to meet a variety of digital archiving needs:

• Institutional Repositories (IRs)
• Learning Object Repositories (LORs)
• eTheses
• Electronic Records Management (ERM)
• Digital Preservation
• Publishing
• and more

Visualizing the DSpace System

DSpace is freely available as open source software. See the accompanying visual description (PDF) of how DSpace works.

What Kinds of Content Does DSpace Accept?

DSpace accepts all forms of digital materials including text, images, video, and audio files. Possible content includes the following:

• Articles and preprints
• Technical reports
• Working papers
• Conference papers
• E-theses
• Datasets: statistical, geospatial, matlab, etc.
• Images: visual, scientific, etc.
• Audio files
• Video files
• Learning objects
• Reformatted digital library collections

Getting Started

DSpace is designed for ease-of-use, with a web-based user interface that can be customized for institutions and individual departments. See our Getting Started page for more information.

Information for Faculty

Academics are increasingly interested in storing and preserving their research in digital repositories. See our Introduction to DSpace, written for faculty and academics.