diff --git a/src/app/core/cache/object-cache.reducer.ts b/src/app/core/cache/object-cache.reducer.ts
index 3af7209b24..39c623deed 100644
--- a/src/app/core/cache/object-cache.reducer.ts
+++ b/src/app/core/cache/object-cache.reducer.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,12 @@ import {
 import { hasValue } from '../../shared/empty.util';
 import { CacheEntry } from './cache-entry';
 
+export enum DirtyType {
+  Created = 'Created',
+  Updated = 'Updated',
+  Deleted = 'Deleted'
+}
+
 /**
  * An interface to represent objects that can be cached
  *
@@ -13,6 +19,11 @@ import { CacheEntry } from './cache-entry';
 export interface CacheableObject {
   uuid?: string;
   self: string;
+  // isNew: boolean;
+  // dirtyType: DirtyType;
+  // hasDirtyAttributes: boolean;
+  // changedAttributes: AttributeDiffh;
+  // save(): void;
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/app/core/data/data.service.ts b/src/app/core/data/data.service.ts
index e2f41f5962..5751173054 100644
--- a/src/app/core/data/data.service.ts
+++ b/src/app/core/data/data.service.ts
@@ -6,12 +6,19 @@ import { RemoteDataBuildService } from '../cache/builders/remote-data-build.serv
 import { CacheableObject } from '../cache/object-cache.reducer';
 import { ResponseCacheService } from '../cache/response-cache.service';
 import { CoreState } from '../core.reducers';
+import { DSpaceObject } from '../shared/dspace-object.model';
 import { GenericConstructor } from '../shared/generic-constructor';
 import { HALEndpointService } from '../shared/hal-endpoint.service';
-import { RemoteData } from './remote-data';
-import { FindAllOptions, FindAllRequest, FindByIDRequest, RestRequest } from './request.models';
-import { RequestService } from './request.service';
 import { URLCombiner } from '../url-combiner/url-combiner';
+import { RemoteData } from './remote-data';
+import {
+  FindAllOptions,
+  FindAllRequest,
+  FindByIDRequest,
+  RestRequest,
+  RestRequestMethod
+} from './request.models';
+import { RequestService } from './request.service';
 
 export abstract class DataService<TNormalized extends CacheableObject, TDomain> extends HALEndpointService {
   protected abstract responseCache: ResponseCacheService;
@@ -102,4 +109,20 @@ export abstract class DataService<TNormalized extends CacheableObject, TDomain>
     return this.rdbService.buildSingle<TNormalized, TDomain>(href, this.normalizedResourceType);
   }
 
+  create(dso: DSpaceObject): Observable<RemoteData<TDomain>> {
+    const postHrefObs = this.getEndpoint();
+
+    // TODO ID is unknown at this point
+    const idHrefObs = postHrefObs.map((href: string) => this.getFindByIDHref(href, dso.id));
+
+    postHrefObs
+      .filter((href: string) => hasValue(href))
+      .take(1)
+      .subscribe((href: string) => {
+        const request = new RestRequest(href, RestRequestMethod.Post, dso);
+        this.requestService.configure(request);
+      });
+
+    return this.rdbService.buildSingle<TNormalized, TDomain>(idHrefObs, this.normalizedResourceType);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/app/core/data/request.effects.ts b/src/app/core/data/request.effects.ts
index 84f19679b1..f848d7f0d7 100644
--- a/src/app/core/data/request.effects.ts
+++ b/src/app/core/data/request.effects.ts
@@ -1,18 +1,23 @@
 import { Inject, Injectable, Injector } from '@angular/core';
+import { Request } from '@angular/http';
+import { RequestArgs } from '@angular/http/src/interfaces';
 import { Actions, Effect } from '@ngrx/effects';
 // tslint:disable-next-line:import-blacklist
 import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
 
 import { GLOBAL_CONFIG, GlobalConfig } from '../../../config';
+import { isNotEmpty } from '../../shared/empty.util';
 import { ErrorResponse, RestResponse } from '../cache/response-cache.models';
 import { ResponseCacheService } from '../cache/response-cache.service';
 import { DSpaceRESTV2Response } from '../dspace-rest-v2/dspace-rest-v2-response.model';
 
 import { DSpaceRESTv2Service } from '../dspace-rest-v2/dspace-rest-v2.service';
 import { RequestActionTypes, RequestCompleteAction, RequestExecuteAction } from './request.actions';
-import { RequestError } from './request.models';
+import { RequestError, RestRequest } from './request.models';
 import { RequestEntry } from './request.reducer';
 import { RequestService } from './request.service';
+import { DSpaceRESTv2Serializer } from '../dspace-rest-v2/dspace-rest-v2.serializer';
+import { NormalizedObjectFactory } from '../cache/models/normalized-object-factory';
 
 @Injectable()
 export class RequestEffects {
@@ -23,15 +28,24 @@ export class RequestEffects {
       return this.requestService.get(action.payload)
         .take(1);
     })
-    .flatMap((entry: RequestEntry) => {
-      return this.restApi.get(entry.request.href)
+    .map((entry: RequestEntry) => entry.request)
+    .flatMap((request: RestRequest) => {
+      const httpRequestConfig: RequestArgs = {
+        method: request.method,
+        url: request.href
+      };
+      if (isNotEmpty(request.body)) {
+        const serializer = new DSpaceRESTv2Serializer(NormalizedObjectFactory.getConstructor(request.body.type));
+        httpRequestConfig.body = JSON.stringify(serializer.serialize(request.body));
+      }
+      return this.restApi.request(new Request(httpRequestConfig))
         .map((data: DSpaceRESTV2Response) =>
-          this.injector.get(entry.request.getResponseParser()).parse(entry.request, data))
-        .do((response: RestResponse) => this.responseCache.add(entry.request.href, response, this.EnvConfig.cache.msToLive))
-        .map((response: RestResponse) => new RequestCompleteAction(entry.request.href))
+          this.injector.get(request.getResponseParser()).parse(request, data))
+        .do((response: RestResponse) => this.responseCache.add(request.href, response, this.EnvConfig.cache.msToLive))
+        .map((response: RestResponse) => new RequestCompleteAction(request.href))
         .catch((error: RequestError) => Observable.of(new ErrorResponse(error))
-          .do((response: RestResponse) => this.responseCache.add(entry.request.href, response, this.EnvConfig.cache.msToLive))
-          .map((response: RestResponse) => new RequestCompleteAction(entry.request.href)));
+          .do((response: RestResponse) => this.responseCache.add(request.href, response, this.EnvConfig.cache.msToLive))
+          .map((response: RestResponse) => new RequestCompleteAction(request.href)));
     });
 
   constructor(
diff --git a/src/app/core/data/request.models.ts b/src/app/core/data/request.models.ts
index a80eccfaa8..3ab7dc0b8c 100644
--- a/src/app/core/data/request.models.ts
+++ b/src/app/core/data/request.models.ts
@@ -9,9 +9,21 @@ import { BrowseResponseParsingService } from './browse-response-parsing.service'
 import { ConfigResponseParsingService } from './config-response-parsing.service';
 
 /* tslint:disable:max-classes-per-file */
+export enum RestRequestMethod {
+  Get = 'GET',
+  Post = 'POST',
+  Put = 'PUT',
+  Delete = 'DELETE',
+  Options = 'OPTIONS',
+  Head = 'HEAD',
+  Patch = 'PATCH'
+}
+
 export class RestRequest {
   constructor(
     public href: string,
+    public method: RestRequestMethod = RestRequestMethod.Get,
+    public body?: any
   ) { }
 
   getResponseParser(): GenericConstructor<ResponseParsingService> {
diff --git a/src/app/core/dspace-rest-v2/dspace-rest-v2.service.ts b/src/app/core/dspace-rest-v2/dspace-rest-v2.service.ts
index 6464268201..bc9d5eddaf 100644
--- a/src/app/core/dspace-rest-v2/dspace-rest-v2.service.ts
+++ b/src/app/core/dspace-rest-v2/dspace-rest-v2.service.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 import { Inject, Injectable } from '@angular/core';
-import { Http, RequestOptionsArgs } from '@angular/http';
+import { Http, RequestOptionsArgs, Request } from '@angular/http';
 import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
 
 import { RESTURLCombiner } from '../url-combiner/rest-url-combiner';
 import { DSpaceRESTV2Response } from './dspace-rest-v2-response.model';
 
 import { GLOBAL_CONFIG, GlobalConfig } from '../../../config';
+import { RestRequest } from '../data/request.models';
 
 /**
  * Service to access DSpace's REST API
@@ -36,4 +37,26 @@ export class DSpaceRESTv2Service {
       });
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Performs a request to the REST API.
+   *
+   * @param httpRequest
+   *      A Request object
+   * @return {Observable<string>}
+   *      An Observable<string> containing the response from the server
+   */
+  request(httpRequest: Request): Observable<DSpaceRESTV2Response> {
+    // const httpRequest = new Request({
+    //   method: request.method,
+    //   url: request.href,
+    //   body: request.body
+    // });
+    return this.http.request(httpRequest)
+      .map((res) => ({ payload: res.json(), statusCode: res.statusText }))
+      .catch((err) => {
+        console.log('Error: ', err);
+        return Observable.throw(err);
+      });
+  }
+
 }