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Using DSpace to Build an Institutional Repository
DSpace is a groundbreaking digital library system to capture, store,
index, preserve, and redistribute all your scholarly research material
in digital formats.
One of the leading uses for DSpace is as an institutional repository(IR).
What is a Digital Institutional Repository?
“A university-based institutional repository is a set of services
that a university offers to the members of its community for the management
and dissemination of digital materials created by the institution and
its community members. It is most essentially an organizational commitment
to the stewardship of these digital materials, including long-term preservation
where appropriate, as well as organization and access or distribution.”
Clifford A. Lynch,
"Institutional
Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital
Age" ARL, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7.
Institutional Repository Resources
See the Implementing DSpace
section of this website for tools and information to help you design
and build an institutional repository.
In 2004-2005, the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) sponsored several
workshops on building an institutional repository, called LEADIRS.
See the LEADIRS report for information on each phase of building
an IR, along with resources and work sheets to help you plan and
build an IR at your institution.
Cambridge-MIT LEADIRS report (pdf)
Mailing Lists
The DSpace Federation maintains a special interest mailing list focused on using DSpace to build an institutional repository.
Examples
See the DSpace Instances page on the DSpace Wiki for links to existing institutional repositories around the world.
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