DSpace:Why you should care

Carol A. Parker
Law Library Director and Assistant Professor of Law
University of New Mexico School of Law

DSpace is an open source repository that is data agnostic. It will accept any format of data weather it is web, video, word processing format, PDF, or other such file. DSPace servers are indexed by Google. This technology allows the school to provide a central repository for data. Faculty can ‘publish’ all of their research to the extent they want to. The advantage it gives is the ability to publish writings that may not typically be accessable to others. Since Google will index DSpace servers any writings or documents in a DSpace repository will be searchable on the web.