Research on Open Source Software (OSS) with Special Reference to DSpace on Online Libraries

Abstract

With the advent of new technologies and software programs, it is becoming increasingly less expensive to compile and distribute scholarly information. This paper explains the open source software (OSS) with special reference to DSpace software. DSpace is a digital library system designed to capture, store, index, preserve, and redistributes the intellectual output of a university's research faculty in digital formats which is developed jointly by Hewlett-Packard (HP) Labs and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) libraries. DSpace is a ground breaking digital repository system that captures, stores, indexes, preserves and distributes digital research materials. DSpace is the program. It is the service and the access to the intellectual output of MIT community, offered by the MIT libraries to the community and the world beyond. This paper describes the DSpace system, features of DSpace and types of DSpace content; data model system and it highlights the DSpace and its technical architecture and finally, this paper, explains the DSpace directories and various institutions offering DSpace platform and also other OSS.