BASE (search engine)

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. In addition to OAI metadata, the library indexes selected web sites and local data collections, all of which can be searched via a single search interface.

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
Aerial view of Bielefeld University with recognizable construction progress at the new main entrance from June 15th, 2022
Type of site
Academic Internet search engine
Available inChinese (simplified), German, English, French, Spanish (Castilian), Polish, Greek, Ukrainian
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerBielefeld University Library
URLwww.base-search.net
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedJune 24, 2004 (2004-06-24)
Current statusActive
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