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

Tue Sep 5 17:07:58 SAST 2017

Hi all

Thanks Ina for this link, now I know BASE too :)

Not sure if this is interesting, but colleagues of mine in Catania did
something similar in CHAIN-REDS and on through Sci-GaIA with a semantic
search engine. They did the usual metadata extraction thing, but went a
step further to construct rdf triples from the metadata, which can be
searched with sparql. The nice  thing is that data repos are also included
in the metadata.

This wasn't really about getting open access to things, more about just
finding them and exploring relationships and other structure in the data.

I've also found the ScienceOpen catalogue very useful -
http://www.scienceopen.com

It probably has a similar corpus (~33M articles) that BASE does, because it
does the harvesting in a similar way. ScienceOpen has a really good overlay
to journals and repos. It's very useful to me so far in curating research
collections. I've got a few on research topics (e.g.
https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/data-infrastructures) and also
collections of my own projects. The one thing that is missing is ingestion
from data repositories - they require a CrossRef DOI for an object to be
valid. But I have motivated quite a bit for them to change that annd
hopefully they will soon.

Just my 2c :)
Thanks  !
Bruce

On 2 September 2017 at 13:50, Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za> wrote:

> 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/>.
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>
> Kind regards
>
> Ina
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> *Ina Smith*
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