PUB - Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld

Bielefeld University Library has followed open access strategies since longer. Since 2004 we are running an etd repository (BieSON) and since 2005 a virtual OAI server (BieTAS) to disseminate metadata for all electronic documents distributed on different platforms. Both are registered in the well-known OAI registries. The official decision of Bielefeld University in June 2005 to support the open access idea led to the development of a platform for all publications of university members which has been prepared by the library. While these efforts are located on the data provider side we are working on the service provider side as well. We started already in 2002 with the concept of a scientific search environment based on modern search engine technology. Since OAI repositories and their documents became more and more relevant in the scientific community this content forms now the emphasis of BASE, the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine.