Library & knowledge systems for Ghana's institutions
DotCode Ghana builds, brands and hosts automated library catalogues, research repositories and a multi-school eBook platform — so schools, universities and institutions can put their collections online with confidence.
The Complete Digital Library
One platform that brings your catalogue, repository, unified discovery search, private analytics and off-campus access together, deployed, branded and managed by us. It is the full system behind the NDU Digital Library, ready to build for your institution.
One trusted partner for the whole stack
From a school's first online catalogue to a university-wide research repository, we cover the full stack of library and knowledge systems.
Proposals & flyers — free to download
Our full institutional-repository service menu on a single page — deployment, managed hosting, migration, DOIs, discovery, training and the Koha + repository bundle, each with an indicative starting price. Built off our live UCC repository.
Give every school its own digital library
Makainda is our multi-tenant School eBook Library — a branded, installable app that puts a curated catalogue of books and spelling practice in every pupil's hands, and gives teachers the tools to manage reading.
- 5,000+ books & spelling practice
- Built for Ghanaian schools
- Reads EPUB & PDF in the browser
- Installable app, works on low-end phones
We don't just deliver software — we keep it running
Every system we build can be fully hosted and managed by our team, and we operate a central portal that auto-discovers and monitors every instance we run. You get a single, accountable partner from first scope to ongoing support.
- End-to-end: design, build, host and support — one accountable partner.
- Open standards (Koha & DSpace) — no proprietary lock-in.
- Per-institution branding: your crest, colours and domain.
- Ghana-based team that already runs 38+ live instances.
Real systems, in production today
A selection of catalogues and repositories we run for Ghanaian institutions. Every link below is live.
NDU Digital Library
Digital library, unified discovery layer
Unified discovery across three defence-college libraries and open access, with analytics and remote access.
Nkae — Ghana Memory Archive
Ghana's funeral-brochure heritage archive
A new DSpace 8 archive preserving Ghanaian funeral brochures as national heritage — searchable life-histories, with family consent under the Data Protection Act.
KAIPTC Library
Kofi Annan Intl. Peacekeeping Training Centre
Reference OPAC redesign and template for our institutional rollout.
UENR Institutional Repository
Univ. of Energy & Natural Resources
DSpace 8 repository migrated and live on the university domain.
GIMPA Knowledge Repository
Ghana Inst. of Mgmt & Public Admin.
Crest-themed DSpace 8 repository on a single domain.
UCC Institutional Repository
University of Cape Coast
9,600+ items rescued from DSpace 5 on an end-of-life server and carried all the way to DSpace 8, then cut over to the university's own domain — branded, bilingual and full-text searchable.
Makainda
Multi-tenant School eBook Library
Our own Next.js eBook platform for Ghanaian schools.
DotCode Sales Manager
Point-of-sale & inventory platform
Our own installable POS app — stock, sales, customers, credit, returns and WhatsApp receipts, built for Ghanaian shops.
Outcomes we've delivered
Every claim below maps to a real system running in production today.
Half a million records, one search
We built the NDU Digital Library, a unified VuFind discovery layer that brings three defence-college catalogues and hundreds of thousands of open-access journals, theses and reports into a single search, with its own privacy-first analytics and off-campus access.
UCC's repository, rescued from end-of-life software
The University of Cape Coast's Institutional Repository was stranded on DSpace 5, running on a Linux server long past end-of-life — no security updates, three major versions behind, and no supported way to upgrade it in place. We rebuilt it on a fresh, fully-supported server, carried all 9,600+ items and 62 communities across three DSpace generations to DSpace 8, rebranded it, and cut it over to the university's own domain.
UENR repository migrated & live
We upgraded the University of Energy & Natural Resources repository to DSpace 8 and cut it over to the university's own domain — with redirects from the old host.
KAIPTC's catalogue, rebuilt
A fast, mobile-first Koha OPAC redesign for the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre — now the template for our institutional rollout.
Makainda — a library in every school
We designed and built Makainda, a multi-tenant eBook Progressive Web App that gives each Ghanaian school its own branded digital library, reader and catalogue of 5,000+ titles.
Ready to modernise your library or repository?
Tell us about your institution. We'll scope the right mix of Koha, DSpace, Makainda and managed hosting for you.