Vital → DSpace
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. Seeking better metadata management and far greater global discoverability, TUT partnered with Atmire to move to the Open Repository platform. The change removed the old software's technical limits, improved compliance with global open-access policies, and enabled clean integration with international indexing services. By adopting a modern hosted architecture, TUT strengthened its open-knowledge commitment and raised the visibility of South African research. A Global South example centred on discoverability and escaping a dead-end legacy platform.
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Tshwane University of Technology migrates from Vital to Open Repository
Atmire
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