Free and open-source repository software

This list is part of the Open Access Directory.

• This is a list of free and open-source software for OA repositories, especially for OAI-compliant repositories. When possible, include the name of the individual or organization behind it.

• Related lists in OAD: (1) Free and open-source journal management software, (2) Free and open-source tools for OA, (3) Services to support repository managers.

• Also see the lists of "Software for repositories" in Lists maintained by others.

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Repository software

• Archimede, Laval University Library

• Artudis, Erasmus University Rotterdam

• DAITSS, Florida Center for Library Automation

• Dienst, Cornell Digital Library Research Group

• DSpace, DSpace Foundation DuraSpace

• Enterprise-Wide Digital Repository and Archive, Sun Microsystems

• EPrints Free Software

• ETD-db, Virginia Tech University Libraries

• eXtensible Text Framework (XTF), California Digital Library

• Fedora, Fedora Commons DuraSpace

• Greenstone, New Zealand Digital Library Project, University of Wankato

• Invenio, CERN Integrated Digital Library System

• IRPlus, University of Rochester.

• Islandora, originally from the University of Prince Edward Island.

• Keystone Digital Library Suite, Index Data. DLS is no" longer being actively developed."

• MOAI. (Can't tell what "MOAI" stands for or who developed it.)

• MyCoRe. Collaborative software development at several german universities such as Universität Duisburg-Essen, Universität Jena, Universität Leipzig, Universität Rostock and others. "MyCoRe" is an acronym meaning My Content Repository.

• NITRC Resources Registry (NITRC-R). Promotes software tools and resources, vocabularies, test data, and databases, thereby extending the impact of previously funded, neuroimaging informatics contributions to a broader community.

• NITRC Computational Environment (NITRC-CE). A freely downloadable, or pay-as-you-go virtual computing cloud-based platform pre-configured with popular neuroimaging software tools such as AFNI, ANTS, FreeSurfer, FSL and more.

• Omeka, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University

• OPUS. Originally from the Stuttgart University Library ("OPUS" stands for "Online Publikationsverbund Universität Stuttgart"), OPUS is now developed by a consortium of German university partners in Berlin, Dresden, Saarbrücken, and Stuttgart.

• PeerLibrary, UC Berkeley

• PubMan. From the eSciDoc project at the Max Planck Society.

• WEKO, National Institute of Informatics

• Zenodo from CERN; runs on Invenio (above)

Repository software wikis

• DAITSS Wiki
• DSpace Wiki
• EPrints Wiki
• Fedora Repository Wiki
• GreenstoneWiki

Repository software add-ons

• Fedora Tools
• Fez, UQ eScholarship Project (Fedora)
• MOAI (Works with any OAI-compliant repository software)
• Muradora, DRAMA (Digital Repository Authorization Middleware Architecture) (Fedora)
• Projects Involving DSpace
• DSpace-CRIS: a DSpace extension to provide rich context to the digital objects, typically used to bring the repository with CRIS system or embed the CRIS functionalities in the repository
• SWORD (Simple Web-Service Offering Repository Deposit) (Dspace, EPrints, and Fedora)

OAI-PMH software

• jOAI Overview, Digital Library for Earth System Education
• mod_oai, Old Dominion University and Los Alamos National Laboratory
• OAI-PMH Tools
• OCLC Software
• OJAX: AJAX-powered Metasearch Service
• UMich OAI Toolkit, University of Michigan Libraries

Repository software surveys

• Repository Software Survey, March 2009 Repository Support Project
• List of Repository Software, a part of the Practical Guidelines for Starting an Institutional Repository (IR)