BASE Weblog: Neuer Meilenstein für BASE: 50 Millionen Dokumente!

"BASE (www.base-search.net) allows a search of over 50 million documents, their metadata are provided by approximately 2,700 repositories (repositories) provide scientific institutions worldwide. Thus BASE is one of the largest search engine for scientific, freely available on the Internet documents. This year alone, the index grew by about 10 million entries.  This also fits the results of a study for the European Commission, the extent detects a trend for open access that is now more than 50% of all scientific papers published in 2011 were freely accessible ( http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP 786_en.htm-13 ). Search engines like BASE can be found an important tool freely available scientific publications on the Internet, and together with the systems operated by the universities, research organizations, academic institutions and other repositories, it forms an essential part of the Open Access infrastructure. Repositories not only involve doing long university publications (such as dissertations) or preprints, but increasingly research data collections digitized text, or e-books. Especially in the latter areas, there are a dynamic growth, which is reflected in the BASE numbers."