Getting Started with DSpace

Thanks for your interest in DSpace. We’d like to help you get started using DSpace.

Installing the DSpace Technology

To install DSpace at your library or institution, someone on your team with IT systems experience can download the software from SourceForge.net. The DSpace technology is available free of charge through an open source license.

The DSpace developer community shares technical information about DSpace on the DSpace-Tech mailing list, which you can join at SourceForge.

Planning and Building a DSpace Service

Installing the DSpace software is a fairly easy process. To successfully launch a DSpace service, you need to determine how it can best serve your university, develop an implementation plan, and then design and build your DSpace service.

See the Planning for and Implementing DSpace section for guidelines and tools to help you along the way, including insights from DSpace developers and project teams who’ve already implemented DSpace.

Questions?

If you have technical questions about installing and using the software, join the DSpace-Tech mailing list and ask the community of DSpace developers for help. The original developers of DSpace are members of this list and respond quickly to new users’ questions.

Note that the DSpace-Tech list is archived at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=dspace-tech. Someone on the list may have already answered your question.