The promise of Open Source is better quality, higher reliability, more flexibility, lower cost, and an end to vendor lock-in.
Koha is the first and most widely used open source Library Management System and was originally developed in New Zealand for the Horowhenua Library Trust in 2000. Distributed under the General Public License.
We are listed as a support provider for Asia's Malaysia on Koha's website.
DSpace is an open source digital repository; a software that supports the management of an organisation's digital assets. The first public version was released in November 2002, as a joint effort between developers from MIT and HP Labs.
It supports a wide variety of digital content, such as digitised books, articles, documents, graphics, photographs, audio, video or sets of experimental data. It is typically used as an institutional repository by organisations that create or hold a large number of digital assets such as universities, laboratories, libraries and archives.
EPrints is a free and open-source software package for building open access repositories that are compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting. It shares many of the features commonly seen in document management systems, but is primarily used for institutional repositories and scientific journals. EPrints has been developed at the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science and released under a GPL license.
VuFind is a library resource portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries. The goal of VuFind is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your library's resources by replacing the traditional OPAC to include:
• Catalog Records
• Locally Cached Journals
• Digital Library Items
• Institutional Repository
• Institutional Bibliography
• Other Library Collections and Resources
We are listed as a support provider for Malaysia/South East Asia on VuFind's website.
Aspen is a full-featured Discovery System that integrates with eContent and other third-party providers, giving your patrons comprehensive access to all of your materials in one place. Aspen combines your library catalog with e-content, digital archives, and enrichment from all major third-party providers. It also improves relevancy and ease of use, provides native reading recommendations, displays all formats of titles within one result (FRBR), and much more.
ResourceSpace is an open source Digital Asset Management system, as a leading DAM solution is used by thousands of organisations globally including many large companies such as Google and Coca-cola, and was the first fully open source solution. It was also among the first DAM solutions to be entirely web based and requiring only a web browser. A particular focus is on the improvement of collaboration between users when assembling resources together for a project. Users can create custom collections of resources and saved searches that can be shared with other users.
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Open Source development from 2009
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