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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 11:35:06 +0200
From: Urte Kramer
To: diglib@infoserv.inist.fr
Subject: [DIGLIB] 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
