DSpace
This collection brings together 40 source-verified institutional cases involving DSpace: DSpace Express → DSpace-GLAM (1), DSpace community → standalone DSpace (1), DigiTool → DSpace (1), Digital Commons → DSpace (2), Disparate repositories → DSpace-CRIS (1), Documented implementation (4), Documented migration (1), EPrints → DSpace-CRIS (1), INVENIO / TIND → DSpace-CRIS (1), In-house DSpace 6.3 → DSpace Express (1), Internal systems → DSpace (1), Islandora → DSpace (1), Legacy SQL → DSpace (1), Legacy → DSpace (2), Legacy → DSpace 7 (1), Migrated to DSpace (1), New deployment → DSpace (1), Operational adoption (12), Publica → DSpace-CRIS (1), Self-hosted DSpace → hosted DSpace (1), Vital → DSpace (2), bepress Digital Commons → DSpace (1), bepress → DSpace (1). A migration is identified only when the source documents a predecessor or transfer; other cases are classified as implementations or operational adoptions.
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Universidad Nacional de La Plata (SEDICI)
The Universidad Nacional de La Plata established its SEDICI repository in 2003 and migrated it to DSpace in 2012, where it became a major node in the Latin American…
Curtin University
Curtin University, Western Australia's largest, modernised its 'espace' repository by migrating from the obsolescent Ex Libris DigiTool to a heavily customised…
Commonwealth of Learning
The Commonwealth of Learning, an intergovernmental organisation headquartered in Canada, migrated its heavily used 'OAsis' repository from a self-hosted DSpace…
Red Distrital de Bibliotecas Públicas de Bogotá (BibloRed) — Digital Repository
BibloRed operates a public DSpace repository containing digital publications and media produced with library and community partners. A live collection page…
Universidad Nacional de Colombia — Repositorio Institucional UN
The Universidad Nacional de Colombia’s institutional repository is a populated DSpace service for scholarly and academic materials, including theses, articles,…
University of Cyprus
The University of Cyprus established E-ViVa, a national Hellenic full-text database on librarianship and information science, built on the open-source DSpace…
National Library of Technology (NTK)
The National Library of Technology (NTK) in Prague migrated its institutional digital repository from the ageing Invenio 1 platform to DSpace 7. In a reversal of…
Fraunhofer Society
To manage the output of its many distributed institutes, Germany's Fraunhofer Society replaced its legacy 'Publica' repository with DSpace-CRIS, engineered and…
University of Debrecen, University and National Library (DEENK)
The University of Debrecen’s University and National Library operates DEA (Debreceni Egyetem Elektronikus Archívuma) as a populated institutional repository. An…
Forest Stewardship Council
The Forest Stewardship Council migrated its core knowledge base to a custom DSpace project built by Atmire to increase global transparency. Branded 'FSC Open…
Trinity College Dublin (edeposit Ireland)
Trinity College Dublin's edeposit Ireland — the national home for Ireland's born-digital legal-deposit publications — began in 2014 as a community within Trinity's…
European University Institute
The European University Institute partnered with Atmire to migrate and upgrade 'Cadmus', its institutional repository, to DSpace 7. The project moved the…
Taylor's University
Facing security vulnerabilities and opaque submission workflows, Malaysia's Taylor's University migrated 2,684 educational resources from the legacy 'Vital' system…
Biblioteca Nacional del Perú — Biblioteca Digital
The Biblioteca Nacional del Perú renewed its Biblioteca Digital in a project that began in 2022 and culminated in the launch of a new platform on 7 December 2023. A…
Concytec — PeruCRIS national network
Peru's national science, technology and innovation council, Concytec, created the PeruCRIS national research-information network on DSpace-CRIS, architected by…
Academy of Applied Sciences in Nowy Sącz (Akademia Nauk Stosowanych w Nowym Sączu), Institutional Repository
The Academy of Applied Sciences in Nowy Sącz operates an institutional repository whose homepage identifies it as a DSpace service and invites staff to deposit…
Academy of Management and Administration in Opole (Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania i Administracji w Opolu), Repository
The Academy of Management and Administration in Opole operates a DSpace repository for scholarly publications. Its DSpace record for “Mediation competence of public…
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (AMU), AMUR Repository
Adam Mickiewicz University operates AMUR as its institutional repository for disseminating the university’s research output. The university library’s repository…
Institute of Geophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences (Instytut Geofizyki PAN), Repository
The Institute of Geophysics of the Polish Academy of Sciences operates a DSpace repository for research outputs. The public repository identifies the Institute of…
Lodz University of Technology (Politechnika Łódzka), CYRENA Institutional Repository
Lodz University of Technology operates CYRENA, an institutional repository for the university’s research output. The live repository presents DSpace pages and…
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, University Library
The University Library in Toruń documents its Omeka S installation as the infrastructure for its Digital Exhibition Platform. The library describes Omeka S as an…
Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków (Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie), Repository
The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Kraków operates a public DSpace repository containing scholarly publications and archival materials. The university’s…
Poznań University of Life Sciences (Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu), UPP Bibliography Repository
The library of Poznań University of Life Sciences states that from October 2024 publication submissions to its UPP Bibliography collection are handled through…
University of Białystok, Jerzy Giedroyc University Library
In September 2025, the Jerzy Giedroyc University Library at the University of Białystok announced that Koha was working as its new library system after nearly…
University of Rzeszów (Uniwersytet Rzeszowski), Repository
The University of Rzeszów describes its repository as a digital archive of the university’s scholarly and teaching outputs and identifies the University Library as…
University of Warsaw (UW), ReIn Institutional Repository
The University of Warsaw’s ReIn Institutional Repository opened on 15 February 2024 as the university’s service for collecting, preserving and sharing research…
WSB-NLU (Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu – National-Louis University), Institutional Repository
WSB-NLU operates an institutional repository on DSpace under the University Library. The repository’s own rules state that it is created to disseminate the…
West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin (Zachodniopomorski Uniwersytet Technologiczny w Szczecinie), Repository
West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin operates Repozytorium ZUT as a service for collecting, storing, and sharing digital materials created by its…
National Research Foundation of South Africa
The National Research Foundation of South Africa set out to turn two legacy databases — 'Current and Completed Research Projects' and 'NRF Funded Projects' — into a…
Tshwane University of Technology
Serving over 60,000 students across multiple campuses, Tshwane University of Technology migrated its institutional repository off the obsolescent 'Vital' platform.…
University of South Africa (UNISA)
After 150 years as a cornerstone of South African higher education, the University of South Africa moved to secure the long-term sustainability of its UnisaIR…
University of Zurich
Guided by a clear Open Science strategy, the University of Zurich migrated its ZORA repository from a legacy EPrints platform to a relational DSpace-CRIS…
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
EPFL migrated its 'Infoscience' repository from the INVENIO-based TIND platform to DSpace-CRIS, hosted on AWS by 4Science. The driver was the need for a robust,…
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, established to place the UAE at the forefront of AI research, launched its institutional repository on…
Georgia State University
Georgia State University, serving over 50,000 students in Atlanta, moved aggressively off bepress Digital Commons to modernise its digital-preservation…
State Library of Massachusetts
The State Library of Massachusetts undertook a large migration to escape the limits of flat, single-entity archiving, moving over 750,000 cultural-heritage items…
University of Massachusetts Amherst
After a four-year evaluation, the University of Massachusetts Amherst migrated its 18-year-old ScholarWorks repository off bepress Digital Commons — driven by…
University of North Texas Health Science Center
The University of North Texas Health Science Center worked with the Texas Digital Library to migrate its scholarly outputs from bepress Digital Commons to a hosted…
University of Tennessee
Driven by open-source values and a wish to escape vendor lock-in, the University of Tennessee moved its TRACE repository from bepress Digital Commons to a hosted…
University of Toledo
On reaching Carnegie R1 status, the University of Toledo needed a sustainable repository — having already churned through CONTENTdm, Digital Commons and Islandora.…