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DSpace Services

Institutional repositories (IRs) have become a critical campus asset. NITLE's participating institutions have access to fully managed digital repository services via NITLE's DSpace Services. NITLE DSpace Services provide campuses with a professionally, fully managed campus IR that can be set up and available within a few days. All back-end application and server support is included; campuses do not have to purchase any hardware or train staff for back-end support roles. See details and pricing for available services: DSpace Standard Service, DSpace Customized Service, DSpace Authentication Services, DSpace Consulting Services.

NITLE also offers training on DSpace and supports an active DSpace user community. The goal of providing these interrelated programs and services is to enable campuses to create and develop a key piece of campus infrastructure as quickly and efficiently as possible without having to purchase expensive back-end technology or train staff to support such technology.

What can campuses do with these services?

Campuses are using NITLE DSpace Services to create institutional repositories for a wide array of purposes: 

• Promoting and preserving campus history and promoting the campus mission by archiving digital materials, including student newspapers, campus publications, and proceedings of campus conferences, and digitizing and publishing print-based papers, manuscripts, and artifacts chronicling campus history;
• Showcasing and preserving the intellectual work of their campus communities by publishing faculty papers, datasets, and other scholarly research materials;
• Promoting and publicizing student research and enriching campus intellectual exchange by archiving and publishing--either locally or more broadly--student theses and projects;
• Opening local archives to remote researchers and expanding source material by digitizing special collections or other local collections; and
• Engaging with other campuses in collaborative projects through joint collections of research papers, digital images, or learning objects.

What training and community opportunities are available?

NITLE offers both online and face-to-face training on DSpace: see our complete list of events.

• Regular DSpace User Community Meetings, which faculty and staff members from participating institutions use to share knowledge and experiences, learn from one another, and identify areas for on-going collaboration.
• Our online training sessions, "Start an Institutional Repository Using DSpace" and “Manage Your Digital Content with DSpace,” which are both delivered online via multipoint interactive videoconferencing (MIV).
• "Digital Repositories: Using DSpace," a professional development workshop available to participating institutions upon request. (Find out more about our Workshops To Go.)
• An active peer-support community supported and facilitated by NITLE: the DSpace Repository Discussion. This e-mail list is for library staff and instructional technologists who use or want to learn about using DSpace.

Questions?  To enroll in or ask questions about our DSpace Services or to share your ideas for other similar services that would be useful to your campus, please contact Christina Richison at christina.richison@nitle.org.