Key Features
- Discover Data
- Discover Journals
- Discover Literature
- Access Journals
- Open Access Journal
- Multidisciplinary Search
- Search Engine
BASE provides more than 150 million documents, from more than 7,000 sources.
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is a multi-disciplinary search engine to scholarly internet resources, created by Bielefeld University Library in Bielefeld, Germany. It is based on free and open-source software such as Apache Solr and VuFind. It harvests OAI metadata from institutional repositories and other academic digital libraries that implement the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), and then normalizes and indexes the data for searching. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access).