DSpace

DSpace
Original authorsMIT and HP Labs
DeveloperThe DSpace Program (parent organization: Lyrasis)
Initial releaseNovember 2002
Stable release
9.x9.2 / 17 December 2025 (17 December 2025)
8.x8.3 / 17 December 2025 (17 December 2025)
7.x7.6.6 / 17 December 2025 (17 December 2025)
Written inJava
TypeInstitutional repository software
LicenseBSD licence
Websitewww.dspace.org
Repositoryhttps://github.com/DSpace/DSpace

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.