MOspace, the University of Missouri institutional repository, will soon include DOIs. DOIs – Digital Object Identifiers – offer a persistent way to reference and access online documents.  Style guides, such as APA, require that DOIs be included in citations when they are available.

Assigning DOIs to items in MOspace will be advantageous for authors and researchers.  Authors will have a widely recognized identifier for their works.  Researchers will have a persistent way to cite and access MOspace items of interest to them.

This positive development for MOspace was made possible thanks to the advocacy of our librarians, exploration by MOspace staff, and approval and support from library administration.

The DSpace Community Annual Report 2017-July 2018 is now available.  MOspace uses DSpace repository platform.

The Report provides an overview of the user community, membership, two brief community profiles, a technical overview, governance, finance, and events.  In this report you can learn more about the DSpace community, current initiatives, and progress towards the release of DSpace 7.  Members of the DSpace community helped in developing this report: Terry Brady (Georgetown University Library); Claudio Cortese (4Science); Tim Donohue (DuraSpace); Felicity Dykas (University of Missouri Libraries); Valorie Hollister (DuraSpace); Salwa Ismail (Georgetown University Library); (Mariya Maistrovskaya (University of Toronto Libraries); Michele Mennielli (DuraSpace); Carol Minton Morris (DuraSpace); Kristi Searle (DuraSpace); Samu Viita (National Library of Finland).

DSpace is a community-based, open source project that produces the DSpace repository platform. With a 16-year history, strong membership support, and active participation from a wide variety of stakeholder institutions located all over the world 2017-2018 was a year of progress toward the key community priority of developing and releasing DSpace 7 with a new, single Angular user interface and enhanced REST API.  The technical roadmap for 2017 is focused on DSpace 7 development. As a production repository DSpace needs to meet the needs of large and small stakeholder institutions, so minor updates have been released as needed. At the same time the bulk of technical efforts were focused on DSpace 7 which included a great deal of groundwork and foundation support for the new REST API. Plans for a Beta release of DSpace 7 with support for entities are on track for early 2019.  Building and sustaining a strong community is a central goal for the DSpace Project.