Overview

Service summary

DSpace is an out-of-the-box open source software package for creating repositories focused on delivering digital content to end users and providing a full set of tools for managing and preserving content within the application.

Transformative influence

Eight properties drawn from IOI’s concept of transformative influence:

Community engagement

Three properties describing the relationship between an organization and its community in the form of the presence of:

Researcher comment

Based on our definitional post, we have identified LYRASIS as the provider for DSpace. It is worth noting that DSpace has a large, global service provider network, which can be found here.