[IRTalk] BASE: Search Engine for peer-reviewed OA research output

[Ina Smith]

Dear HELIG Colleagues

The BASE Search Engine<https://www.base-search.net/> harvests metadata from high quality research output originally published in scholarly journals, of which a second copy is made available as Open Access through an institutional repository.


1.    Subject/Research Librarians: Please add this search engine to your library web pages, and encourage users so start here, before heading for the commercial databases. Chances are good that - following negotiations and journal policies - there just might be a copy of the relevant material linked from this search engine.

2.    IR Managers: If your OAI-PMH compliant repository contains high quality research output, and if you assign proper metadata (even better if also LCSHs), and if you keep it up to date and are dedicated to preserve a copy of publicly funded research output in your IR, please apply for your IR to be indexed by this search engine.

This the closest to a one stop search engine for high quality OA research output, previously published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals. It would be great if all Gold OA journals can encourage depositing copies of articles in IRs also.

Wishing you all the best with the upcoming OA Week 23-29 October 2017<http://www.openaccessweek.org/>.

Kind regards
Ina

Ina Smith
Project Manager: African Open Science Platform<http://africanopenscience.org.za/>
SciELO Planning Manager
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
DOAJ Ambassador, Southern Africa Region
LIASA Librarian of the Year 2016

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