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BASE: new release

- Apologies for cross posting -

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine),
http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de
Release 2, August 2005

The new release

BASE in its updated version discloses now more than 2,3 Mio. documents of
130 online - resources, incl. many scholarly full text archives,
accessible through the international protocol of the Open Archives
Initiative (OAI). Documents are mainly freely available and can be
searched by bibliographic data or full text.

BASE offers new features within the search refinement ('restrict results
to data source'), various result sorting options and a search history.

About BASE

BASE is the multi-disciplinary search engine at Bielefeld University to
scholarly internet resources, developed by Bielefeld University Library
based on the technology of the Norwegian company FAST Search & Transfer
(www.fastsearch.com). BASE complements the current metasearch system for
catalogues and databases of the Bielefeld Digital Library by disclosing
many scholarly full text archives, digital repositories and preprint
servers of the internet. BASE is a strategic project of Bielefeld
University Library and will be further developed with the perspective of
replacing the current metasearch. In the meantime BASE has registered as
OAI service provider.

BASE characteristics include:

+ Intellectual selection of resources
+ Indexes only qualified academic online resources from all
  academic disciplines
+ Transparency on the data resources included in BASE through an
  inventory
+ Searches metadata and full text (depending on the data source)
+ Discloses internet resources of the "deep web", that are not
  indexed by commercial search engines (such as 500,000 digitised
  pages historical journals and review organs of the German
  Enlightment)
+ Displays search results as bibliographic data and full text
  hits
+ Various options to sort result sets
+ Search refinement for authors, keywords, document type,
  language etc.)

Contact: ub@uni-bielefeld.de

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Urte Kramer
Universitaetsbibliothek Bielefeld
Universitaetsstr. 25, 33615 Bielefeld / Germany
Voice: +49 521 1064058, Fax: +49 521 1064052
http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de