What is DSpace at MIT?

Developed here at MIT by the MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard, DSpace provides MIT faculty and researchers stable, long-term storage for their digital research.

DSpace captures, indexes, preserves, and distributes the intellectual output of MIT's faculty and researchers.

Benefits for MIT Faculty and Researchers

The MIT Libraries maintain and preserve your work in DSpace, so you can

• Avoid broken links in citing your research with persistent URLs
• Secure your data
• Get top search results in Google
• Enjoy worldwide visibility
• Quickly distribute your research

For MIT Communities

• Open access to department or center's research
• See your research cited more frequently
• Reduce website maintenance
• Easy to set up and maintain — no more broken links
• Research materials professionally managed for you by the MIT Libraries

For MIT

• Worldwide visibility
• Open source system developed at MIT with HP Labs
• Stable, long-term storage for articles, datasets, images, course materials, and more

Worldwide Acclaim

DSpace has received worldwide acclaim and is used by dozens of research institutions around the world. See who else is using DSpace.