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Dear all,
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">we are happy to announce, that BASE
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.base-search.net">www.base-search.net</a>) has reached another milestone with indexing
more than 50,000,000 OAI-records. <br>
The records are provided by about
2,700 repositories worldwide. In this year alone, we have indexed
about 10,000,000 records.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The ongoing growth of repositories and
the development of BASE are reflecting the overall importance of
repositories as the backbone of the OA infrastructure.
Repositories do not only contain theses and preprints anymore,
like in the beginning, instead they are becoming the platform for
the whole publication output of academic institutions (the more OA
the better), they contain large digital OA text collections,
research data and even ebooks. We therefore strongly believe, that
repositories have to be the major driving force for OA in the
future. <br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">About BASE:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">BASE is a multi-disciplinary search
engine for academically relevant OAI-Sources worldwide, which
was created and developed by Bielefeld University Library. <br>
BASE makes it
possible to search for more than 50,000,000 documents across 2,700
repository servers
worldwide and is one of the biggest search engine for academic OA
documents and publications.</p>
<br>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Follow us: twitter.com/#!BASEsearch</p>
Blog for the OAI community: ub.unibi.de/oaiblog <br>
BASE Blog (in german): ub.unibi.de/baseblog
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Dirk<br>
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Dirk Pieper
Bielefeld UL - Head of Media Department
Universitätsstr. 25, D-33615 Bielefeld
E-mail: dirk.pieper at uni-bielefeld.de
Tel.: +49 521 106-4010 | Fax: +49 521 106-4052
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de">www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.base-search.net">www.base-search.net</a>
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