... [BASE] offers a new designed web interface ... and new advanced search options ... [W]e are normalizing the according OAI-Metadata information if possible. ...
In addition BASE is still the only search engine for OAI Metadata which works with cross-language retrieval. The Eurovoc Thesaurus enables you to search a term in up to 21 languages not matter which language you use. There are 6,500 basic terms for every language, all in all 239,000 terms are included in the thesaurus.
The number of indexed sources has grown up to more than 1,080 so that we have reached the number of indexed sources in OAIster. ...
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
