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Re: OpenDOAR: 1,000+ Repositories - More than 500 in BASE

Hello,

Congratulations to OpenDOAR also from BASE (Bielefeld Academic 
Search Engine), OpenDOAR is one of the most important repository 
registers for us.

At the end of October 2007, BASE has indexed the 500th 
repository. At present BASE includes 519 sources, which means an 
increase of some 80 % compared to November 2006 (283 sources). 
For details please see

http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/images/dokzahl_quellen.gif

(the blue line represents the number of documents, the red bar 
graph represents the number of repositories).

Since OpenDOAR lists some repositories without OAI-interface, we 
decided to show that BASE can also crawl repositories.  At 
special request of Nature Publishing, we crawled and indexed two 
Nature repositories, which do not yet provide an OAI interface: 
Nature Precedings and Nature's Signaling Gateway.

Primarily in international professional circles, the multilingual 
search option in the BASE-Lab aroused great interest. Therefore 
we decided to integrate the option into the BASE search forms. By 
using the Eurovoc-Thesaurus you can now broaden your search. If 
you choose "basic terms only" a search term will be searched in 
up to 21 languages at the same time (no matter which language you 
use), provided that the search term is included in Eurovoc (for 
every language 6,500 basic terms are included). If you choose 
"basic terms and used-for-terms" synonyms for this search term 
will be searched additionally. All in all 239,000 terms are 
included in Eurovoc.

About BASE:

BASE is the name of the multi-disciplinary search engine for 
scientifically relevant web sources which was created and 
developed by Bielefeld University Library. It is based on search 
technology provided by FAST Search & Transfer 
(http://www.fastsearch.com) a Norwegian company. At present BASE 
includes some 7.2 million documents originating form 519 sources.

For further information about BASE refer to:
http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/

BASE Search:
http://www.base-search.net/

Best regards
Dirk Pieper
BASE
Bielefeld UL
Universitaetsstrasse 25, D-33615 Bielefeld
fon: +49 (0)521/ 106-4010  fax: -6452
www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de
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