DSpace is an open source repository software platform designed for academic and research institutions to capture, store, distribute and preserve digital materials. It provides tools to organize content such as articles, reports, datasets and multimedia into an institutional repository that is accessible over time. DSpace uses Dublin Core metadata standards and has customizable workflows, user interfaces and technological features like support for different file formats and persistent identifiers. It also implements the OAI-PMH protocol for metadata harvesting and interoperability with other repositories. DSpace is widely used with a large user community and support from the nonprofit organization DuraSpace.