{"id":8,"date":"2024-04-03T23:26:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/academicinternet\/open-archives\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T22:33:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T20:33:02","slug":"open-archives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/academicinternet\/open-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic search engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E-dissertations, articles and research works can be found in open repositories or digital archives (open access archives) of universities and scientific institutions. Most of the materials can be retrieved in full-text format. Members of the institution can upload their materials into such repositories. The repositories may contain peer-reviewed articles, dissertations, historical documents, images, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Otsingumootorid v\u00f5imaldavad otsida\u00a0korraga\u00a0\u00a0paljudes teadusandmebaasides, arhiivides ja vabas internetis. Materjalide hulgas on nii parooliga kaitstud kui ka vabalt k\u00e4ttesaadavaid tekste, videoid, k\u00e4sikirju ja pilte. T\u00e4psemaid tulemusi annavad need otsingumootorid, mis on m\u00f5eldud kindlat t\u00fc\u00fcpi materjalide leidmiseks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Theses in open archives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndltd.org\/resources\/find-etds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NDLDT<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations) website has links to various digital archives around the world and e-dissertation search engines,\u00a0 including<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.base-search.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BASE<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.base-search.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.base-search.net\/<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 the possibility to search in many digital archives. In addition to theses, it also contains articles, books, reports, pictures, etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oatd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OADT\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oatd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/oatd.org\/<\/a><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oatd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>(Open Access\u00a0Theses and Dissertations) \u2013\u00a0only to find open access theses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Research data in open archives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/service.re3data.org\/search\/results\/filter\/?term=&amp;d=25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">re3data.org\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>\u2013 search tool for research data.\u00a0\u00a0For more details, see the <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/datasearch\/registers-repositories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/datasearch\/registers-repositories\">registers of repositories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>OAISTER<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The global association of digital archives OAIster makes archival materials accessible through the worldwide union library catalogue WorldCat. A separate search form has been developed for searching among materials in digital archives that allows searching exclusively among the OAIster materials.<\/p>\n<p>Advanced Search is best suited for this purpose<br>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/oaister.worldcat.org\/advancedsearch\">http:\/\/oaister.worldcat.org\/advancedsearch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"653\" height=\"590\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-18\" title=\"oaister.png\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/oaister.png\" alt=\"OAIster search\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/oaister.png 653w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/oaister-300x271.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\"><br>\n<em>Fig. 1. OAIster search form.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you do not limit your search from the very beginning, the database offers many options for narrowing your search results.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"893\" height=\"428\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19\" title=\"oaister_results.png\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/oaister_results.png\" alt=\"OAISter results\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/oaister_results.png 893w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/oaister_results-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/oaister_results-768x368.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 893px) 100vw, 893px\"><br>\n<em>Fig. 2. OAIster search results.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The number of results is in the brackets after each limiting field. Results can be refined by the format, language, publication year, author, content (fiction\/non-fiction\/biography)\u00a0and topic. Choosing the Open Access limiter at the beginning of the search or while refining the results will show you content from only known open access subdatabases, but for many of the results you get without this filter, links leading to full texts can be found when opening the record.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>BASE<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.base-search.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.base-search.net\/\">BASE<\/a> is a multi-disciplinary search engine for scholarly internet resources. It provides more than 150 million documents from more than 7000 sources. Full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents are accessible for free (Open Access). BASE also discloses web resources of the \u201cDeep Web\u201d, which are ignored by commercial search engines or get lost in the vast quantity of hits.<\/p>\n<p>BASE search has lots of options for limiting or expanding the search. You can also use different languages for searching.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1556\" height=\"826\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-20\" title=\"base_search.png\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/base_search.png\" alt=\"Base advanced search\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/base_search.png 1556w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/base_search-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/base_search-1024x544.png 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/base_search-768x408.png 768w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/base_search-1536x815.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1556px) 100vw, 1556px\">\u00a0<em>Fig. 3. \u00a0BASE advanced search\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The search results are displayed in a list sorted by relevance. You can also order them alphabetically (either by author or title) or by publication date. It is possible to refine the search results by author, subject, DDC, year of publication, content provider, language, document type, access and re-use terms. If you filter by language, keep in mind that \u201cunknown\u201d language means that the language is just not specified \u2013 you can also find English language documents from there. In the list, you will see a quick view of the record; for more information, click on Detail View. If you can not find a link to the full text from the BASE record, you can try checking in Google Scholar.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"934\" height=\"481\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-21\" title=\"base_result.png\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/base_result.png\" alt=\"BASE results\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/base_result.png 934w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/base_result-300x154.png 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/base_result-768x396.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\"><br>\n<em>Fig. 4. BASE results view.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Please use <a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.base-search.net\/about\/en\/help.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.base-search.net\/about\/en\/help.php\">BASE help page<\/a> for more detailed information.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>CORE<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/core.ac.uk\/search\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/core.ac.uk\/search\">CORE<\/a> also allows you to search digital archives of the world. In the basic search, the operator OR is used as a default, meaning that at least one of the words is searched. In advanced search, you can use different\u00a0fields for different operators.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"964\" height=\"550\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-22\" title=\"core_advanced_search.png\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/core_advanced_search.png\" alt=\"CORE advanced\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/core_advanced_search.png 964w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/core_advanced_search-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/core_advanced_search-768x438.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 964px) 100vw, 964px\"><br>\n<em>Fig. 5. CORE advanced search form.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can refine your search by year, language, journals and repositories. A permalink for the search is also displayed under the refining categories. You can see more detailed information (bibliographic information, suggested articles and geographical location of the repository) about the record by clicking on its title.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1196\" height=\"589\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-23\" title=\"core_results.png\" src=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/core_results.png\" alt=\"CORE results\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/core_results.png 1196w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/core_results-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/core_results-1024x504.png 1024w, https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/94\/core_results-768x378.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1196px) 100vw, 1196px\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Fig. 6. CORE results.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You might get fewer results with a CORE search\u00a0because CORE only searches for <strong>scientific publications<\/strong>. It can also find some smaller OA journals that OAIster and BASE miss.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Estonian repositories<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>ADA<\/strong> is the digital repository of the University of Tartu. You can find its materials on the webpage, Google searches, or the above-mentioned archives.<\/p>\n<p>Materials from the National Library archive <strong><a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/digar.nlib.ee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-url=\"http:\/\/digar.nlib.ee\">Digar<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0can be retrieved by separate archive searches or by links from the e-catalogue ESTER and ISE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E-dissertations, articles and research works can be found in open repositories or digital archives (open access archives) of universities and scientific institutions. Most of the materials can be retrieved in full-text format. 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