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

[Ina Smith]

I agree with ScienceOpen being excellent. For me the better version of Google Scholar.

From: brucellino at gmail.com [mailto:brucellino at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Bruce Becker
Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 5:08 PM
To: Ina Smith <Ina at assaf.org.za>
Cc: heligliasa at googlegroups.com; irtalk at lists.lib.sun.ac.za
Subject: Re: [IRTalk] BASE: Search Engine for peer-reviewed OA research output

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<mailto: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/>.

Kind regards
Ina

Ina Smith
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SciELO Planning Manager
Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
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