From early feedback that we received, we anticipated that DSpace communities or
individual faculty members may put extraordinary demands on the service such as
sizeable storage requirements or assistance with specialized metadata creation. MIT
Libraries plan to offer Premium Services to ensure that DSpace offers a full set of
resources to meet faculty and researcher’s needs and to manage the impact of these
exceptional resource requirements on Libraries staff and DSpace resources. MIT
Libraries reserves the right to introduce Premium Services fees as needed to aid in cost
recovery. We do not speculate on the growth of the services, they will be introduced as
library resources allow. Neither do we speculate on revenues generated, as it would be
DSpace Services
Submission
Access
Interactive Services
Repository
Community Mgmt.
Community Support
System Mgmt.
Operations Services
CoreServices
E-Conversion
Metadata
Custom Repository
User Reporting
Premium Services
an inappropriate representation of these services as for-profit when the fees charges
would merely cover the costs of providing them