[GOAL] Re: More than 3.000 repositories in BASE!

[Lee Giles]

Hi Dirk:

Nice work.

You might find our new paper on the number of scholarly documents on the
web of interest. It would be interesting to see which of these are in BASE.

Best

Lee

On 5/20/14 9:04 AM, Dirk Pieper wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> we are happy to announce, that BASE (www.base-search.net) has reached 
> two more milestones with indexing more than 60,000,000 OAI-records 
> provided now by more than 3.000 repositories worldwide.
>
> In 2014 we have indexed about 250 new repositories until now, which 
> indicates the ongoing importance of repositories as the backbone of the 
> OA infrastructure. Also in this year, we are going to celebrate the 
> tenth anniversary of BASE!
>
>
> About BASE:
>
> BASE is a multi-disciplinary search engine for academically relevant 
> OAI-Sources worldwide, which is created and developed by Bielefeld 
> University Library since 2004.
>
> BASE is now one of the largest academic search engines providing access 
> to more than 60 mio. publication records from more than 3.000 
> international repositories and e-journals.
>
> Follow us: twitter.com/#!BASEsearch
>
> Blog for the OAI community: ub.unibi.de/oaiblog
> BASE Blog (in german): ub.unibi.de/baseblog
>
>
> Best, Dirk
>

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