DSpace

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. DSpace has an active community of developers and is used by thousands of institutions worldwide.

DSpace open source software is a turnkey repository application used by more than 2,000 organizations and institutions worldwide to provide durable access to digital resources. For more information, visit Backend (this codebase) provides a REST API, along with other machine-based interfaces (e.g. OAI-PMH, SWORD, etc) The REST Contract is at Frontend ( is the User Interface built on the REST API On our wiki, you may also find a list of all past releases, including their current levels of support. Documentation for each release may be viewed online or downloaded via our Documentation Wiki. Please be aware that, as a Java web application, DSpace requires a database (PostgreSQL) and a servlet container (usually Tomcat) in order to function. More information about these and all other prerequisites can be found in the Installation instructions above. NOTE: At this time, we do not have production-ready Docker images for DSpace. That said, we do have quick-start Docker Compose scripts for development or testing purposes. See our Contributing guidelines for general tips on contributing back to DSpace. DSpace provides public mailing lists where you can post questions or raise topics for discussion. We welcome everyone to participate in these lists: [email protected] : General discussion about DSpace platform, announcements, sharing of best practices [email protected] : Technical support mailing list. See also our guide for How to troubleshoot an error. [email protected] : Developers / Development mailing list DSpace also has an active service provider network. If you'd rather hire a service provider to install, upgrade, customize, or host DSpace, then we recommend getting in touch with one of our Registered Service Providers. By default, in DSpace, Unit Tests and Integration Tests are disabled. However, they are run automatically by GitHub Actions for all Pull Requests and code commits. DSpace source code is freely available under a standard BSD 3-Clause license. The full license is available in the LICENSE file or online at DSpace uses third-party libraries which may be distributed under different licenses. Those licenses are listed in the LICENSES THIRD PARTY file.