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

[James Rutherford]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 10:03:03AM -0300, Halley Pacheco de Oliveira wrote:
> I work for the IT department, and I will try to convince the
> responsible for the legislation control department to use DSpace.

That's great news. Good luck!

Jim

> 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 Justi????a. (http://www.stj.gov.br)
> >
> >> There will be any license restrictions?
> >
> >None at all; just the general BSD stuff.
> >
> >Jim
> >
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