What Our Community Is Saying
TESTIMONIALS FROM OUR COMMUNITYCommunity Experiences
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Highlighted Testimonials
At ETH Zurich, we have migrated our institutional repository to DSpace in 2017. We have since used DSpace to publish open access articles, thesis and other publications by our researchers, to archive and publish their research data as well as to run our institutional bibliography – all in one DSpace instance. DSpace provides us the necessary flexibility to run a repository customized to our specific local needs. There are various features on our product roadmap that we are looking forward to implement once we have upgraded to DSpace 7 – for example support for person profiles or drag-and-drop file uploads. We are sure that DSpace 7 will bring us a great step forward in making our repository even more attractive and easy to use.
Barbara Hirschmann, Head E-Publishing, ETH Library, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
The Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins University has long relied on DSpace to serve as a home for our institutional knowledge and cultural heritage materials. Not only is DSpace a solid technical platform, it is an exceptional example of an open community that has come together to solve shared challenges through cooperative engagement. This year’s on-schedule and feature-rich release of DSpace 8, and the planning for DSpace 9 which has already begun, are but the latest demonstrations of a project that is well organized and focused on delivering value to the hundreds of institutions worldwide that depend on the DSpace software. If you have contributed to DSpace, be it through code contributions, documentation updates, interest groups, governance, financial contributions, or one of many other avenues, thank you, we all benefit from your investment.
Bill Branan, Hodson Director, Digital Research and Curation Center, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Community Experiences
Luis Angel
May 20, 2026
Hola, logré restablecer una copia de Dspace que se tenía en la entidad donde trabajo, una entidad pública en Colombia, la UPRA (Unidad de Planificación Rural y Agropecuaria), versión 4.2 ; claro con PostgreSql 9; así mismo JDK 8; fue un reto por que además la copia que se me entrego provenía de donde se tenía esta versión, un servidor Windows Server; ahora esta en un Ubuntu 24.04
(English translation below provided by Google Translate)
Hello. I managed to restore a DSpace instance (version 4.2) from the public entity where I work in Colombia—the UPRA (Rural and Agricultural Planning Unit)—using PostgreSQL 9 and JDK 8. It was a challenge because the copy I was given originated on a Windows Server, whereas it is now running on Ubuntu 24.04.
سليمان
December 26, 2025
انا أستاذ مساعد بجامعة غرب كردفان اهتم دائما بالمواقع التي تحتوي على الاكاديميات والحمدلله DSpace يحتوي على ذلك فأنا سعيد اكون من أعضائه
(English translation provided by Google Translate)
I am an Assistant Professor at the University of West Kordofan. I have always been interested in platforms that host academic content, and since DSpace offers this, I am happy to be one of its members.