Getting Started

Options for MIT Faculty and Researcers

MIT faculty and researchers have several options for placing their collections in DSpace:

1. Join your Departmental Community. See the Department of Political Science community as an example.
2. MIT labs and centers can create collections. See the Center for Global Change Science, as an example.
3. You can form your own subcommunity by joining other MIT Faculty and Researchers.

Establishing a New Community

The MIT Libraries will lead you through the process of building a new Community in DSpace. See the steps required to establish a new DSpace Community.

See DSpace in Action

Would your group like a demonstration of DSpace? Request one through our DSpace Help form.

Creating New DSpace Communities

DSpace is organized into Communities, Sub-communities, and Collections. Each Community contains one or more Collections, where the digital research materials are stored as Items.

How are Communities and Collections Organized?

To add digital research materials to DSpace, you add your data to a collection. Collections in DSpace are always associated with communities or sub-communities, as shown in this basic view of DSpace communities (PDF).

Communities can have as many sub-communities and collections as needed, as shown in this deeper view of the DSpace hierarchy (PDF).