A Multidisciplinary Search Engine for Scientific Open Access Documents
Mathias Lösch · PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University) · 2011
There is no doubt that the increased visibility of publications deposited in freely accessible documents servers is an important motivation for scholars to publish their works Open Access. Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) is a service provider that indexes scientific content stored in both institutional and subject repositories. After a short introduction to the technical and conceptual background, this article describes the features of BASE and finally projects future developments to be taken out to further improve the system.