A flexible, open-source discovery layer that empowers libraries of all types and sizes to effectively serve their communities. Aspen currently integrates with seven different ILSs and multiple eContent platforms, event platforms, websites, archives, e-commerce solutions, and more.
For comprehensive information on how to use Aspen Discovery, please visit our official help documentation.
If you're looking to install or develop for Aspen Discovery, detailed information can be found in the dev documentation. You can also jump start by checking out:
We welcome contributions from everyone, so don't be shy! Whether it's code, QA, documentation, reporting bugs, or suggesting features and enhancements, your help makes Aspen Discovery better.
We thank all of our contributors for their hard work! All code contributors can be found at https://github.com/Aspen-Discovery/aspen-discovery/graphs/contributors.
Aspen Discovery's development is sponsored by many public, academic, and school libraries through direct code contributions and service subscriptions. We thank all our sponsors for their invaluable support.
Aspen Discovery also incorporates and builds upon a number of open-source libraries, which are credited within the source code.
Aspen Discovery was originally derived from VuFind by Villanova University and Pika by Marmot Library Network. While significant changes have been made and the codebase is now largely distinct, we gratefully acknowledge these projects for their inspiration.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, please visit https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.