D Space at Delhi Technological University

Can you tell me in detail about the Digital Library Software (D Space) used by Library in DTU or Delhi Technological University?

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The Delhi Technological University Library uses Digital Library software package for managing the Full Text/Dissertations. The uploading of thesis and dissertations is a continuous process.

All the projects/thesis is maintained in the Digital Library Software (DSpace) access to which is available in campus network and on internet.

D Space is an open source software package that provides the tools for management of digital assets, and is commonly used as the basis for an institutional repository.

It supports a wide variety of data, including books, theses, 3D digital scans of objects, photographs, film, video, research data sets and other forms of content. The data is arranged as community collections of items, which bundle bit streams together.

D Space is also intended as a platform for digital preservation activities. Since its release in 2002, as a product of the HP-MIT Alliance, it has been installed and is in production at over 800 institutions around world, from large universities to small higher education colleges, cultural organizations, and research centers.

It is shared under a BSD license, which enables users to customize or extend the software as needed.

D Space 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.

D Space preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs and data sets

D Space captures, distributes and preserves digital research products. Here one can find articles, working papers, preprints, technical reports, conference papers and data sets in various digital formats. Content grows daily as new communities and collections are added to D Space.

The D Space content is organized around Communities which can correspond to administrative entities such as schools, departments, labs and research centers.

Within each community there can be an unlimited number sub communities and an unlimited number of collections. Each collection may contain an unlimited number of items.

Reasons to Use D Space
• 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
• Can be installed out of the box
• Can manage and preserve all types of digital content