Our review of digital library and related solutions, both for-profit and non-profit, revealed
a highly fragmented market with individual initiatives selecting different aspects of the
problem to address and different means to achieve solutions. We learned that the need
for institutional repositories is widespread based on the multitude of new projects and the
inquiries we received from other universities. We were able to develop an understanding
of how institutionally based digital repositories like DSpace can best respond to the needs
of institutional constituents. We confirmed that DSpace is relatively unique in that there
are no other institutionally based repositories that invite the breadth of file formats, have
digital preservation as an explicit objective, and provide a flexible, decentralized
community-based submission process.