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Award for Bielefeld's BASE search engine
Special prize at the 2010 SuMa Awards
On Wednesday 6 October at this year's SuMa Awards in Berlin, the Association for Free Access to Knowledge gave a special prize to the "Bielefeld Academic Search Engine" (BASE) for its exceptional contribution to indexing open-access documents.
BASE is one of the largest search engines in the world for open-access scientific documents in the Internet – such as journal articles, preprints, and dissertations. Bielefeld University library is offering it as a service and also developing it further. With linguistic search support, search history, sorting options, differentiated displays of bibliographic data, and navigation options for large sets of hits, BASE offers an extraordinary level of comfort compared to general search engines. Recently, BASE indexed its 25-millionth document from more than 1,700 content providers throughout the world.
The SuMa Awards are prizes for contributions to the future of digital knowledge. They have now been awarded for the third year in succession by the SuMa-eV, Association for Free Access to Knowledge.
To find out more in the Internet:
www.base-search.net
www.suma-ev.de/
Contact:
Dr. Michael Höppner, Bielefeld University
University library
Telephone: 0521 106-4052
E-Mail: michael.hoeppner@uni-bielefeld.de