we work for
Clients Worldwide
of the top 20 universities in the world
Completed Projects
SaaS Clients
OUR CLIENTS
AMERICAS
Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cornell University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Princeton University, University of Tennessee, The State Library of Massachusetts, Maryland University, Alleghney College, California Digital Library, Virginia Tech University, Texas Christian University, Lyrasis, Middle Tennessee State University, Agnes Scott College, Educopia Institute, Queen’s University, José Simeón Cañas University, Concytec
INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
COAR, OpenAIRE, EOSC-DIH, OSCE-ODIHR, Global Campus of Human Rights, European University Institute, euroCRIS, Lama Tzong Khapa Institute
GERMANY
Fraunhofer Society, Technical University Hamburg (TUH), University of Kassel, University of Bamberg, University of Göttingen, Bielefeld University, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Helmut Schmidt University, Tubingen University, Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V., Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg, University of Vechta, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (HAW), Herzog August Bibliothek, Hasso-Plattner-Institute, TU Darmstadt, SUB Hamburg, HCU Hamburg, University of Oldenburg
SWITZERLAND
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), University of Bern, University of Basel, University of Fribourg, University of St. Gallen, University of Teacher Education St.Gallen (PHSG), University of Neuchâtel, University of Lausanne, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), Franklin University Switzerland, Berner Fachhochschule, Haute école pédagogique Vaud.
ITALY
Unity FVG, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), National Institute of AstroPhysics (INAF), Bocconi University, University of Venezia Ca’ Foscari, University of Firenze, University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, Bank of Italy, Italian Space Agency (ASI), IRCCS Burlo Garofolo (Clinical Research and Care), INAPP, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), Consortium of Health Research (CORIS), University of Milan, University of Trieste, University of Trento, University of Turin, University of Siena, University of Tuscia, University of Bologna Alma Mater, University of Pavia, University of Genova, University of Urbino, University of Salerno, University of Macerata, National library of Naples, Milan Conservatory, Municipality of Reggio Emilia – Library, and more, see the Italian site
UNITED KINGDOM
University of Cambridge, British Library, Imperial College of London, Nottingham University, Brunel University London
OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
INSERIM, Nantes University, UPV-EHU, Rijksmuseum, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), University of Catalonia Services Consortium (CSUC), Cyprus University of Technology, Athena Research Center, University of Coimbra, University of Minho, Jisc, University College Dublin, University of Amsterdam, Hasselt University, Vienna University of Technology, Fachhochschule Burgenland, University of Louvain, MDW Wien,
AFRICA&ASIA
National University Singapore – NUS, Nanyang Technological University, National Institute of Education Singapore, Singapore Polytechnic, National Taiwan University, Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi, University of Dubai, Prince Sultan University, SAU, Kuwait University, Durban University of Technology, University of Mpumalanga, University of Global health and Equity (UGHE)
CORPORATE CLIENTS
Reviewer Credits, HPS, PREX, Scimago Research Group
A selection of our most recent projects
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
In 2025, This project involved the design and implementation of a digital repository to manage and publish Princeton’s undergraduate senior theses that go back to 1924.
Initially launched as proof of concept, the system evolved into a fully operational platform based on DSpace-CRIS 7, tailored to meet Princeton’s academic and administrative requirements.
For new thesis submission, a multi-step submission workflow was developed to guide students through uploading their theses.
The system enforces strict role-based permissions. Students can manage files within a submission but cannot delete or discard entire submissions. System administrators have full control over item import and deletion, assisted by junior administrators.
An “Under-admin” overview section was also developed, allowing first-level reviewers and administrators an overview of all items included in the administered collections, regardless of their status (draft, under review, archived).
Once published, theses are made available under different access models, like on-campus access via university network or VPN, walk-in access restricted to specific library terminals, and embargo options (including full restriction for up to 100 years, or delayed walk-in access after the embargo period).
Integration with the university’s Shibboleth login system ensures secure access to the repository. Thesis Central :: Home
The State Library of Massachusetts
In 2025, This project involved the large-scale migration of a digital repository from DSpace-Express 7 to DSpace-GLAM 7, a platform specifically designed for cultural heritage institutions.
Migration activities covered over 750,000 items and required a complete transformation of the underlying data model to better reflect the nature and diversity of heritage materials.
The repository’s data structure was transformed from a single-entity model, where all content was treated as generic “items”, to DSpace-GLAM flexible multi-entity data model aligned with the needs of cultural heritage institutions. In the new system, content is no longer stored as undifferentiated items. Instead, it is categorized into distinct entity types such as Pictures, Archival Materials, Audio/Video, etc.
Each of these entities is modeled according to relevant international standards (e.g., ISAAD/EAD for archival materials), ensuring that the repository supports best practices in heritage resource description.
As part of the migration to DSpace-GLAM, the project redefined how digital collections are structured and presented, while carefully preserving the original organizational logic of the repository. (State Library of Massachusetts :: Home)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
DASH Stories: Implementing a qualitative feedback service in DSpace 8
From the presentation at Open Repositories 2025:
This presentation will highlight Harvard’s institutional repository (DASH) qualitative feedback service, DASH Stories, and this service’s new configuration in DSpace 8. Introduced in Harvard’s DSpace instance in 2012, DASH Stories invites users to share brief narratives about how specific articles or open access has impacted their lives. With over 9,000 responses to date, these stories range from simple expressions of gratitude to poignant accounts of improved lives, access overcoming censorship, or meaningful human connections. Our talk will provide an overview of the DASH Stories service, demonstrate its new iteration in DASH’s newly migrated DSpace 8 instance, and explore key development aspects. We will also highlight the key collaboration efforts between Harvard Library Open Scholarship and Research Data Services (OSRDS) and 4Science that drove this initiative forward (https://zenodo.org/records/15758682).
https://dash.harvard.edu/
Imperial College London
In 2023, 4Science was awarded a successful tender with the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine (ICL) in London. The project implemented a repository based on an extension of DSpace, in its 7.x version. This new repository replaced ICL’s current DSpace installation, providing new features and enabling a more smooth and meaningful user experience. 4Science is providing, in addition to the implementation of the new solution, configuration, system testing, hosting of the platform and its maintenance for 5 years, as well as dedicated University staff training.
Chosen because of its superior expertise, 4Science ensured that the migration for ICL preserved all data, metadata, statistics, users, and permissions, ensuring an effective and secure upgrade of the platform.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) chose 4Science as its partner for implementing a state-of-the-art digital repository using the powerful DSpace extension for research information, DSpace-CRIS based on dedicated servers provided thanks to our Long Standing partner AWS. EPFL, one of the top universities and research institutions globally, is well known for its commitment to innovation and excellence. According to the 2023 QS World University Rankings, EPFL is ranked 16th worldwide across all fields. EPFL is recognized as one of the top 10 universities in several engineering disciplines. The Times Higher Education also places EPFL as the 19th best institution globally for Engineering and Technology. These accomplishments highlight EPFL’s position as a global leader in education and research.
EPFL’s decision to transition from INVENIO to DSpace-CRIS was driven by the need for a more robust and flexible data model tailored to their unique requirements. The free and open source DSpace extension DSpace-CRIS (DSPACE-CRIS – 4Science ) provides an extended data model that accommodates EPFL’s specific needs, offering flexibility and functionality. This partnership is a great example of our dedication to providing cutting-edge solutions that enable institutions to achieve their goals.
University College Dublin
Founded in 1854, University College Dublin (UCD) is a research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a member institution of the National University of Ireland. It has over 1,400 academic staff and 30,000 students, and it is Ireland’s second largest university after TU Dublin. As a result of an international bid, 4Science was awarded a contract to upgrade and maintain their institutional repository, including harvesting by the RIAN Irish national portal and the integration with the internal Research Information Management System, based on Symplectic Elements. The Research Repository UCD, https://researchrepository.ucd.ie/, based on DSpace-CRIS 7, based on our shared services thanks to our Long Standing Partner AWS, is a digital collection of open access scholarly research publications. It collects, preserves and disseminates freely available publications including peer-reviewed articles, working papers and conference papers created by UCD researchers. 4Science also developed a statistic and analysis module, based on the data collected in the SOLR statistics core, enriched to provide an easy join between statistical data and content metadata, allowing aggregation by community, collection, submitter, author, etc.
4Science also supported the implementation of Dataverse: ISSDA
University of Bern
4Science was contracted to design and implement, along with university staff, a repository and Research Information System representing the research outputs, researchers’ profiles and project records of the institution. Based on DSpace-CRIS with important customizations and integrated with other internal systems.The University of Bern is a university in the Swiss capital of Bern and was founded in 1834. Regulated and financed by the Canton of Bern, it is a comprehensive university offering a broad choice of courses and programs in eight faculties and some 150 institutes. With around 18,576 students, the University of Bern is the third largest university in Switzerland. The roots of the University of Bern go back to the sixteenth century, when, as a consequence of the Reformation, a collegiate school was needed to train new pastors. As part of its reorganization of higher education, the government of Bern transformed the existing theological college into an academy with four faculties in 1805. Henceforth, it was possible to study not only theology in Bern, but also law and medicine.
Fraunhofer Society
The Fraunhofer Society is a major German research organization with 72 institutes spread throughout Germany, each focusing on different fields of applied science. With over 29,000 scientists and engineers and an annual research budget of over €2.8 billion, it is the biggest organization for applied research and development services in Europe. In 2017 4Science was awarded the design and implementation of a DSpace-CRIS solution to manage the research performance indicators for the institutes. Current work by 4Science also includes data analysis and staff training and support. The project was presented at CRIS2018: the 14th International Conference on Current Research Information Systems (Umeå, June 13-16, 2018): https://dspacecris.eurocris.org/handle/11366/644. The system is in production since September 2018.
In 2019, 4Science was awarded another challenging project, a CRIS system to replace the current repository Publica, to collect, manage, preserve, and disseminate the intellectual output of the Fraunhofer’s institutes and the information about the entities that populate the Fraunhofer’s research domain. Together with its stakeholders, the solution was designed and modelled to be integrated and interoperable with all data sources, both external and internal, such as ORCID, bibliographic and bibliometric databases, HR and IDM systems, and more. Publica is based on DSpace-CRIS 7: https://publica.fraunhofer.de/.
Hamburg University of Technology
Established in 1978, the Hamburg University of Technology prides itself on interdisciplinary research and innovation, with first-class teaching and project-based learning at the heart of the university. 4Science supports the technical management of the Research Information Management System, based on DSpace-CRIS, and provides specialized training and consultancy. The ambitious mission is to represent research activities and outputs at TUHH, including research data: https://tore.tuhh.de/. The Hamburg University of Technology supports DSpace-CRIS participating in the developers’ group, contributing to the roadmap and funding the development of DSpace-CRIS 7.
Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey (USA), is an independent, postdoctoral research center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry, founded in 1930. The IAS is perhaps best known as the academic home of Albert Einstein, Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann, and Kurt Gödel, after their immigration to the United States. Although it is close to and collaborates with Princeton University, Rutgers University, and other nearby institutions, it is independent and does not charge tuition or fees. 4Science implemented the IIIF Image Viewer to support remote research and enhance the user experience accessing images of the precious ancient inscriptions kept at the Institute: https://albert.ias.edu/handle/20.500.12111/120.
Lyrasis is an academic consortium based in the United States, which “catalyzes and enables equitable access to the world’s knowledge and cultural heritage”. Lyrasis host a division for community supported programs including DSpace. DSpace 7.0 is the largest release in the history with over 1 million lines of DSpace code changed. Its development was co-led by 4Science, also thanks to partial community funding collected by Lyrasis. DSpace 7.0 was released on 2nd August 2021.
4Science is closely involved with DSpace as a Certified Platinum Provider and lead contributor to the DSpace community, providing software development & coordination tasks in all Working Groups (Angular UI, REST API – including lead of sub-team, Entities). We also serve the community with three DSpace Committers (the first since 2006), participation in the Leadership and the Steering Groups, and other roles in community initiatives and promotion of DSpace: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/DSPACE/DSpace+7+Working+Group.
University of Milan
The University of Milan is a public teaching and research university. It consists of 9 schools and offers 134 undergraduate and graduate courses, 21 Doctoral Schools and 92 Specialization Schools with over 2.000 professors and a uniquely wide range of disciplinary fields. The University’s research and teaching activities have developed over the years and have received important international recognition. The University of Milan is the only Italian member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU), a group of twenty-one research-intensive European universities. It ranks consistently amongst the best universities in Italy both overall and in specific subject areas. 4Science provides a Research Data Management System for researchers, to collect, share, preserve, and disseminate research datasets. Dataverse was chosen as the preferred platform: https://dataverse.unimi.it/.
Nanyang Technological University
The Nanyang Technological University in Singapore is a research-intensive public university, with 33,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Engineering, Business, Science, Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, with a Medical School and Graduate colleges. One of the top universities in the world, 19th in the QS World University Rankings 2023 and 4th in Asia, NTU is also home to world-class autonomous institutes – the National Institute of Education, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Earth Observatory of Singapore, and Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering – and various leading research centres such as the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute (NEWRI) and Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N). 4Science was commissioned to set up the repository and Research Information System of the university, based on DSpace-CRIS with important customizations and integrated with internal systems, working together with the university IT staff. The system is hosted and supported on the cloud infrastructure of 4Science: https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/.