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D Space-Powered Digital Library Management: Enhancing Access, Preservation, and Scholarly Communication in Academic Institutions

Author(s) Dr. K. Murali Kumar, Tippanu Jagannadham, Dr. Lakshmanarao Banana
Country India
Abstract DSpace, the open-source repository platform jointly originated by the MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in 2002, has become the dominant infrastructure on which academic institutions worldwide build digital libraries and institutional repositories. This review article synthesises more than two decades of scholarship to assess how DSpace advances three interdependent missions named in its title: widening access to and discoverability of institutional knowledge, ensuring the long-term preservation of born-digital and digitised assets, and reshaping scholarly communication through open access. Drawing on the foundational system literature, comparative open-source evaluations, digital-preservation frameworks, open-access scholarship, and Indian and international deployment studies, the paper organises the evidence into six analytical themes and offers an original critical appraisal of each major contribution. The review finds robust and consistent evidence that DSpace lowers the cost of establishing a standards-compliant repository, improves the visibility and retrievability of institutional output through OAI-PMH interoperability and qualified Dublin Core metadata, and provides a credible though not complete platform for digital preservation aligned with the OAIS reference model. It also identifies persistent weaknesses: uneven sustainability of repositories after launch, a recurrent gap between preservation capability and preservation practice, metadata-quality and skills constraints, and a demanding migration path to the redesigned DSpace 7 architectures. The article concludes that DSpace delivers measurable gains in access and scholarly communication, but that its preservation promise is realised only when the software is embedded in sustained institutional policy, funding, and professional capacity rather than treated as a one-time technical installation.
Keywords DSpace; institutional repository; digital library; digital preservation; open access; scholarly communication; OAI-PMH; metadata; academic libraries; OAIS.
Published In Volume 16, Issue 2, April-June 2025
Published On 2025-06-07
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