TY - JOUR AB - Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to describe the activities of Bielefeld University Library in establishing OAI based repository servers and in using OAI resources for end-user-oriented search services like Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE). Design/methodology/approach - Discusses OAI based repository servers. Findings - BASE is able to integrate external functions of Google Scholar. The search engine technology can replace or amend the search functions of a given repository software. BASE can also be embedded in external repository environments. Originality/value - The paper provides an overview of the functionalities of BASE and gives insight into the challenges that have to be faced when harvesting and integrating resources from multiple OAI servers. DA - 2006 DO - 10.1108/07378830610715473 KW - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine LA - eng IS - 4 M2 - 614 PY - 2006 SN - 0737-8831 SP - 614-619 T2 - Library Hi Tech TI - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) An end-user oriented institutional repository search service UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-16809798 Y2 - 2024-11-21T23:32:44 ER -