DSpace is a document management system that preserves and enables easy and open access to all types of digital content including text, images, moving images, mpegs and data sets. It's designed from the ground up to enable universities to better preserve and share academic research. Its notable qualities include:

• Built from the ground up intended for Universities with the goal of improving preservation and sharing of academic research.
• Support for all forms of digital content (text docs, pdf's, images, video, graphics) with full-text indexing and searching of text-based content.
• Extensive academic-specific meta-data and globally-unique identifiers on every piece of content.
• Security contexts with groups, users and permissions to enable or restrict access to content as needed