DSpace conserve and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content through text, images, moving images, mpegs and data sets. DSpace is an open source repository software package typically used for creating open access repositories for scholarly and/or published digital content. While DSpace share some feature go beyond with content management systems and document management systems, the DSpace repository software serves a specific need as a digital archives system focused on the continuing storage, access and protection of digital content.
Special features of DSpace digital library software are