BASE reaches 2000th repository

"we are happy to announce that BASE (www.base-search.net) has reached another milestone with integrating the 2000th repository. This means that we have now successfully reduced the backlog of already harvested repositories, which were not yet indexed in BASE, caused by the migration from Fast to Lucene/Solr earlier this year....BASE is a multi-disciplinary search engine for academically relevant OAI-Sources which was created and developed by Bielefeld University Library. BASE is one of the biggest OAI-Search-Engines and includes some 31 million documents originating from more than 2.000 repository servers...."