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BASE - new release, links to Google Scholar
- apologies for cross posting -
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the latest release of our search
engine BASE (Release 3, 1 March 2006), that is now successfully
running on a server cluster. URL: http://www.base-search.net
BASE searches over 2.7 million documents from 189 sources. Among
them are numerous academic full text archives that are accessible
through the international protocol of the Open Archive Initiative
(OAI). Most of the documents are freely accessible and can be
searched on the basis of metadata or full text.
As a new feature we have integrated hit-related links to the
academic search engine Google Scholar. An example: searching for
"e-science infrastructure" produces 36 hits:
http://www.base-search.net/index.php?q=e-science+infrastructure&s=all
Choose hit number 1 ("The Semantic Grid: A future e-Science
infrastructure") and click on the link "Check this title in
Google Scholar". The Google Scholar hit list is shown and you can
now use all functionalities provided by Google Scholar, e.g. +
view the articles citing the document ("Cited by 122") or + view
different versions of the article ("group of 26").
Partly, this search will produce no hits, as BASE indexes some of
the sources more completely than Google Scholar does, moreover,
some of the sources indexed by BASE are not available in Google
Scholar. If your library participates in Google Scholar's
"Library-Links"- programme, there may be shown a link to your
library stocks.
Other features offered by BASE are
+ different options to refine your search results and to sort your
hits,
+ a search history function documenting your queries.
BASE is the multi-disciplinary search engine to scholarly
internet resources at Bielefeld University, provided and
developed by the Bielefeld University Library and based on
technology by the Norwegian company FAST Search & Transfer
(www.fastsearch.com). Learn more about BASE:
http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/
Regards
Urte Kramer
Universitaetsbibliothek Bielefeld
Universitaetsstr. 25, 33615 Bielefeld / Germany
Voice: +49 521 1064058, Fax: +49 521 1064052
http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de