BASE Lab

BASE Lab is the public test area of Bielefeld Academic Search Engine. Here you can find exiting new search options, tools and tests. Your feedback helps us optimize these new services before we bring them online.

Browsing BASE

Screenshot BrowsingFind documents without typing search terms. This browsing tool is based on the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). At the moment, DDC numbers are assigned to more than 100,000 documents in the BASE index and can be found that way.
Start browsing BASE


BASE for your Web Browser

Search faster with the BASE search plugin (for Firefox 2 and higher and IE 7 and higher). You can search the scientfic web with BASE directly through the search toolbar of your browser.
Install BASE search plugin


BASE search box - add BASE to your site

If you want to offer your users a search field for BASE searches, simply add the following piece of source code to your home page (be careful not to modify the code, it may affect the functionality).

<form action="http://www.base-search.net/index.php" method="get" accept-charset="UTF-8">
<input type="text" name="q" style="width:200px;" maxlength="1024" />
<input type="submit" value="Search BASE" />
<input type="hidden" name="s" value="all" />
<input type="hidden" name="l" value="en" />
</form>

The search box will look like this (by using CSS you can customize the design of the search box, so that it fits your web site well):


BASE logos

If you would like to include a link to BASE on your web page, please feel free to use one of these official logos. You can choose from three different sizes either with white or transparent background.

BASE logo 224 x 57 pixel
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BASE logo 149 x 50 pixel
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BASE logo 75 x 29 pixel
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