Digital Commons → DSpace
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 DSpace environment run by 4Science on AWS. The repository is substantial — around 35,000 works, 5,000 added yearly, and 1.3 million annual downloads — so the migration had to transfer primary files, embargo data and descriptive metadata intact. The new DSpace features deep ORCID synchronisation, a custom UX module and improved statistics, letting the university present its output free of commercial platform licensing.
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University of Tennessee: migration from Digital Commons to a hosted DSpace with 4Science
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