BASE: More than 1,080 sources and new features

[Dirk Pieper <dirk.pieper@uni-bielefeld.de>]

*sorry for cross-posting*

Dear colleagues,

last week we have updated our search engine BASE 
(http://www.base-search.net), which offers a new designed web 
interface according to standards from Bielefeld UL and new 
advanced search options. In the advanced search you can now limit 
your search to a lot of document types, like books, journal 
articles, reports, theses, reviews, audio, video, images, primary 
data and others. In order to offer this search options, we are 
normalizing the according OAI-Metadata information if possible.

In addition BASE is still the only search engine for OAI Metadata 
which works with cross-language retrieval. The Eurovoc Thesaurus 
enables you to search a term in up to 21 languages not matter 
which language you use. There are 6,500 basic terms for every 
language, all in all 239,000 terms are included in the thesaurus.

The number of indexed sources has grown up to more than 1,080 so 
that we have reached the number of indexed sources in OAIster. 
This morning we are even a little bit ahead of OAIster.

About BASE:

BASE is the name of the search engine for scientific open access 
documents which was created and developed by Bielefeld University 
Library. At present BASE includes some 15.9 million documents 
originating from 1,088 content providers.

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

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

Kind regards

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