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DSpace is 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.
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- Getting your research results out quickly, to a worldwide audience
- Reaching a worldwide audience through exposure to search engines such as Google
- Storing reusable teaching materials that you can use with course management systems
- Archiving and distributing material you would currently put on your personal website
- Storing examples of students projects (with the students' permission)
- Showcasing students' theses (again with permission)
- Keeping track of your own publications/bibliography
- Having a persistent network identifier for your work, that never changes or breaks
- No more page charges for images. You can point to your images, persistent identifiers in your published articles.
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 DSpace is freely available as open source software. See the accompanying DSpace diagram (PDF) that desribes visually how DSpace works.
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How do you add your content?
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DSpace is easy to use. You use your web browser to submit content and search or browse its collections.
To submit content, you upload the file(s) and add descriptive
information including title, author, publication information, and
keywords. This descriptive data is known as metadata.
To add your content, though, you must belong to a DSpace community.
Speak with your library?s staff to learn more about DSpace communities.
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Licensing and copyright issues
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To add content to DSpace, you must have the copyright to the
material, or have permission to submit work for which you do not have
copyright. You should be willing and able to grant the university
library the right to preserve and distribute the work in DSpace.
Many publishers offer a ?self-archiving? clause in publication
contracts, which allows you to archive a copy of your work. If your
publisher doesn?t offer such a clause, you can negotiate to include one.
Each university sets its own licensing requirements for DSpace.
Check with your DSpace team for information about your institution?s
requirements.
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