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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>I agree with ScienceOpen being excellent. For me the better version of Google Scholar.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> brucellino@gmail.com [mailto:brucellino@gmail.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bruce Becker<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 5, 2017 5:08 PM<br><b>To:</b> Ina Smith <Ina@assaf.org.za><br><b>Cc:</b> heligliasa@googlegroups.com; irtalk@lists.lib.sun.ac.za<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [IRTalk] BASE: Search Engine for peer-reviewed OA research output<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks Ina for this link, now I know BASE too :)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This wasn't really about getting open access to things, more about just finding them and exploring relationships and other structure in the data. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I've also found the ScienceOpen catalogue very useful - <a href="http://www.scienceopen.com">http://www.scienceopen.com</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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. <a href="https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/data-infrastructures">https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/data-infrastructures</a>) 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.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Just my 2c :)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks ! <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Bruce<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 2 September 2017 at 13:50, Ina Smith <<a href="mailto:Ina@assaf.org.za" target="_blank">Ina@assaf.org.za</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Dear HELIG Colleagues</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>The <a href="https://www.base-search.net/" target="_blank">BASE Search Engine</a> 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=m7725199347385756783msolistparagraph><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>1.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Subject/Research Librarians: </span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>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. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=m7725199347385756783msolistparagraph><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>2.</span><span style='font-size:7.0pt'> </span><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>IR Managers:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'> 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>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.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Wishing you all the best with the upcoming <a href="http://www.openaccessweek.org/" target="_blank">OA Week 23-29 October 2017</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Century Gothic",sans-serif'>Kind regards</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal 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