Suppliers

Open-source

• DSpace . Open source software. Widely used in the higher education sector around the world. Developed by MIT and Hewlett Packard. Able to accommodate a variety of digital objects.
• Eprints . Open source software to enable open access to refereed research output via the development of eprint repositories, e.g. ANU Eprints .
• Fedora - Flexible Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture - institutional repository software. Adopted by the Australian ARROW project.
• Greenstone . New Zealand digital library software system.

Proprietory

• Digital Commons - Developed by Berkeley Electronic Press and Proquest. Provides an off-site hosted repository solution.
• Harvest Road - Hive CMS software. Accommodates both research and teaching and learning objects. Working with Griffith University, Australia , to develop and further utilise the package.
• Learning Edge - Learning Content Management System (LCMS). Initially developed with the University of Tasmania and Victoria University, in close collaboration with WebCt.
• Netcat - Australian firm dealing with cms / web / knowledge management systems.
• Open Repository - BioMed Central. Based on the Dspace open source software.
• Intrallect - Intralibrary Learning Object Repository. Enables reuse and sharing of teaching and learning objects via web interface. UK based company.
• Symposia - a product from library system supplier Innovative Interfaces. Still largely in development.