Library Cataloging
The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
The BASE search engine has an interesting tool package.
The search engine BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) It is a tool for searching Open Access contents and automatic classification is active since 2004 and includes 37,4 million documents from 2900 mostly academic repositories. Special features are a truncation function, a search history, sorting, a drilldown function and the cooperation of linguistic tools. Interoperability is guaranteed through the possibility to bind BASE to different interfaces.
They also provide help on "Integration of BASE into local infrastructures" and a "Validate OAI Interface." You can also suggest a repository of them to harvest. Is your institution's OAI-PMH metadata being harvested?
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Goodsearch
I just heard of the search engine, GoodSearch. It makes a small donation to a charity of my choice each time I search.GoodSearch is a search engine which donates 50-percent of its revenue to the charities and schools designated by its users. It's...
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Google Base
I've loaded 425 items into Google Base. That is the limit they currently impose.Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content that we'll host and make searchable online. You can describe any item you...
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Open Worldcat
The Open WorldCat Web site now includes information about tools that can help you more conveniently search for library materials from your PC desktop. The three tools featured on this page are:Yahoo! Toolbar. This special edition on the Yahoo! Toolbar...
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Rss
rssSearch is a search engine which harvests and indexes the RSS/RDF files produced by weblogs across the Internet. It is built up from a number of components, a harvester, an indexer, a search engine, and a user interface. Currently it indexes 34,899...
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Oai
Arc is the first federated search service based on the OAI-PMH protocol. It includes a harvester which can harvests OAI-PMH 1.x and OAI-PMH 2.0 compliant repositories, a basic search engine which is based on database and an OAI-PMH....
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