AN OPEN-SOURCE, OPEN-STANDARDS SOLUTION TO CAPTURE, STORE, INDEX, DISTRIBUTE, PRESERVE SCHOLARLY WORKS IN ANY DIGITAL FORMAT (TXT, ODT-DOC, PDF, JPEG, MPEG, TIFF and any other format)
Dspace by openlx

For those who want to have an Enterprise Class, Fully featured, Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) also termed as ELECTRONIC REPOSITORY, with comprehensive functionality and advanced options :

If Electronic resource management is an important need of your organization/library ;
If your documents include both, born-digital and documents that need to be digitize snd preserved ;
If you need to provide excellent tools for instant access through powerful search engine with preservation mechanism ;

DSpace is the best option for you, that builds up DAMS for academic, non-profit, commercial, or any type of organizations.
DSpace is the most widely used DAMS with more than 1,000 installations worldwide representing a growing and active user community.

The most common use of the DSpace software is by academic and research libraries as an open access university repository for managing materials created by their faculty and students. Many organizations are also using DSpace to host and manage repositories which are dataset, subject, or media-based.
Dspace was jointly developed by the MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Company and, is available under the BSD license.

 

FEATURES
CAPTURES DISTRIBUTES
Digital research material in any format Via WWW, with necessary access control
Directly from faculty or their designate Persistent identifiers
Large-scale, stable, managed long-term storage Expose to Web search engines
  Alert Services
DESCRIBES E-mail notifications
Descriptive, technical, rights metadata  
Persistent identifiers PRESERVES
  Many approved digital formats
BUILT-IN WORKFLOWS  
  BUILT-IN SEARCH-ENGINE
TOOLS-PLUGINS OAI-PMH/SWORD/WebDAV
Batch import/export, batch metadata editing, curation and object backup & restoration tools. Complies with standard protocols for access, ingest and export
   
SECURITY METADATA
Comes with an authorization stack; Qualified Dublin Core is the default metadata scheme.
Can also connect with LDAP or similar existing protocols Also accepts custom metadata schemas similar to Qualified Dublin Core.
Allows to control permissions as granular as item level, or Set global permissions based on communities and collections Can also translate matadata from other metadata schemas such as MARC/MODS.
SOME REASONS FOR USING DSPACE:
• Largest community of users and developers worldwide
• Free open source software
• Completely customizable to fit your needs
• Used by educational, government, private and commercial institutions
• Manage and preserve all types of digital content: text, images, moving images, mpegs, datasets • Easily installed “out-of-the-box”
Organizations such as Universities, Museums, Research-labs, Government agencies and Commercial Institutions are using DSpace to create their own digital libraries and share their digital artifacts, documents, collections and research with the world.