Dear all,
we are happy to announce, that BASE (www.base-search.net) has reached
another milestone with indexing more than 50,000,000 OAI-records.
The records are provided by about 2,700 repositories worldwide. In this
year alone, we have indexed about 10,000,000 records.
The ongoing growth of repositories and the development of BASE are
reflecting the overall importance of repositories as the backbone of the
OA infrastructure. Repositories do not only contain theses and preprints
anymore, like in the beginning, instead they are becoming the platform
for the whole publication output of academic institutions (the more OA
the better), they contain large digital OA text collections, research
data and even ebooks. We therefore strongly believe, that repositories
have to be the major driving force for OA in the future.
About BASE:
BASE is a multi-disciplinary search engine for academically relevant
OAI-Sources worldwide, which was created and developed by Bielefeld
University Library.
BASE makes it possible to search for more than 50,000,000 documents
across 2,700 repository servers worldwide and is one of the biggest
search engine for academic OA documents and publications.
Follow us: twitter.com/#!BASEsearch
Blog for the OAI community: ub.unibi.de/oaiblog
BASE Blog (in german): ub.unibi.de/baseblog
Best,
Dirk
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Dirk Pieper
Bielefeld UL - Head of Media Department
Universitätsstr. 25, D-33615 Bielefeld
E-mail: dirk.pieper at uni-bielefeld.de
Tel.: +49 521 106-4010 | Fax: +49 521 106-4052
www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de
www.base-search.net
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