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BASE
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is a meta search / discovery engine hosted by Bielefeld University Library, Germany. BASE provides access to OA content from 8,600 content providers, among them ~15 e-book providers including COPIM partners Meson Press, OAPEN and DOAB.
BASE is a registered OAI provider, and offers a bespoke OAI-PMH Validator (OVAL) to ensure compatibility of potential content providers with its service.
BASE uses the oai_dc format and requires that request for ListRecords in returns results without a timeout or output error.
Documentation of the OAI interface is available at: http://oai.base-search.net/ which is accompanied by a concise FAQ.
Next to OAI, BASE also provides a HTTP interface for easy integration with external services; this interface is accessible via https://api.base-search.net/
New / unlisted content providers can apply to be added to BASE.
Note Nov 2023: BASE is currently not accepting new applications to become a content provider. Form likely to be reactivated in Jan 2024. (Source: BASE)
The Thoth Wiki has been developed in the context of the COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) project. Individual contributions to the wiki have been made by Tim Elfenbein, Joanne Fitzpatrick, Rupert Gatti, Ross Higman, Hannah Hillen, Brendan O'Connell, Tobias Steiner, and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei under the general editorship of Van Gerven Oei. All data are available under a CC-BY 4.0 license.