DSpace

Original author(s)MIT and HP Labs
Developer(s)The DSpace Program (parent organization: Lyrasis)
Initial releaseNovember 2002
Stable release
9.0 / 23 May 2025 (23 May 2025)
Repositoryhttps://github.com/DSpace/DSpace
Written inJava
TypeInstitutional repository software
LicenseBSD licence
Websitedspace.org

DSpace is an open source repository software package typically used for creating open access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content. While DSpace shares some feature overlap with content management systems and document management systems, the DSpace repository software serves a specific need as a digital archives system, focused on the long-term storage, access and preservation of digital content. The optional DSpace registry lists more than three thousand repositories all over the world.