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Dear users please follow the below link to install the dspace either in Windows or in Linux based operating system. 1)  Linux based installation guide         >>     Click Here 2)  Windows based installation guide        >>    Click Here

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. What can DSpace be used for? DSpace can be used to store any type of digital medium. Examples include: Journal papers Data sets Electronic theses Reports Conference posters Videos Images

--> DSpace is a set of co-operating Java web applications and utility programs that maintain an asset store and an associated metadata store.  --> The web applications provide interfaces for administration, deposit, ingest, search and access. The asset store is maintained on a file system or similar storage system. --> The metadata, including access and configuration information is stored in a relational database and supports the use of PostgreSQL and Oracle database. --> DSpace currently support two primary web interfaces: JSPUI which uses JSP and the Java Servlet API and XMLUI (aka Manakin) based on Apache Cocoon, using XML and XSLT.  --> DSpace holdings are made available primarily via a web interface, but it also supports the OAI-PMH v2.0, and is capable of exporting METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) packages.  --> DSpace supports the common interoperability standards used in the Institutional repository domain,...

--> The first public version of DSpace was released in November 2002, as a joint effort between developers from MIT and HP Labs.  --> Following the first user group meeting in March 2004, a group of interested institutions formed the DSpace Federation, which determined the governance of future software development by adopting the Apache Foundation's community development model as well establishing the DSpace Committer Group.  --> In July 2007 as the DSpace user community grew larger, HP and MIT jointly formed the DSpace Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that provided leadership and support. In May 2009 collaboration on related projects and growing synergies between the DSpace Foundation and the Fedora Commons organization led to the joining of the two organizations to pursue their common mission in a not-for-profit called DuraSpace.  --> Currently the DSpace software and user community receives leadership and guidance from DuraSpace. ...

DSpace is a platform that allows you to capture items in any format – in text, video, audio,and data. It distributes it over the web. It indexes your work, so users can search andretrieve your items.  It preserves your digital work over the long term.DSpace provides a way to manage your research materials and publications in aprofessionally maintained repository to give them greater visibility and accessibility overtime. DSpace is typically used as an institutional repository. It has three main roles: Facilitate the capture and ingest of materials, including metadata about the material Facilitate easy access to the materials, both by listing and searching Facilitate the long term preservation of the materials