Mission

Rice's institutional repository (http://scholarship.rice.edu/) is a web site where the university's intellectual output is shared, managed, searched, and preserved. Most materials come from Rice faculty members' research, electronic theses and dissertations, and digitized collections of rare or unique books, images, musical performances, and manuscripts. The archive runs on DSpace, an open source software package.

Key features include:

• perpetual access to digital resources
• permanent urls for citation purposes
• long term digital preservation services

Others:

• UX studies. Conducted by Debra Kolah Report PDF (2012)

Platform related help information

•  Knowledgebase: an accessible source for tutorials, videos and other educational materials on Duraspace technologies
• DuraSpace Community Hot Topics Webinar Series
• DSpace Wiki

Other services and tools

• FAQ updates
• Statistical tools
• Full Search specifications (Search Index Parameters)
• Bibliographic display mode (how it works)
• DSpace Customization and Special features (see list)

Notes:

• Dspace dev sites are blocked from general search engine indexes. (see lighthouse ticket for details #251). these sites are  are purely for testing purposes. No data stored here is backed up or retained for long term.