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.
Find 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
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
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):
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.