[Dspace-general] Use of DSpace by non-research institutions

[Halley Pacheco de Oliveira]

Hi James,

I work for the IT department, and I will try to convince the
responsible for the legislation control department to use DSpace.

Thanks,
Halley

2007/4/19, James Rutherford <james.rutherford at hp.com>:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:05:45AM -0300, Halley Pacheco de Oliveira wrote:
> > In the home page of DSpace is written that "DSpace is an open source
> > digital repository software system for RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS." and
> > that "DSpace is available under the BSD open source license for
> > RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS to run as-is, or to modify and extend as
> > needed."
>
> I think the emphasis here is on who it is targeted at, not on who is
> eligible to use it :)
>
> > In my case, I work for the local government (C?mara Municipal do Rio
> > de Janeiro - http://www.camara.rj.gov.br/), a kind of City Council,
> > and I'm interested in using DSpace as a digital library for law
> > projects and other internal materials.
>
> You might be interested to note that it is already being used at the
> Superior Tribunal de Justiça. (http://www.stj.gov.br)
>
> > There will be any license restrictions?
>
> None at all; just the general BSD stuff.
>
> Jim
>
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