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CORE vs BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine): catalog facts
CORE	BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
Free Searching is free; CORE is a not-for-profit service with additional offerings for…	Free Free to search in the browser.
Web	Web
Very large collection of open access papers Full text as well as metadata	Focused on open-access academic content Draws on thousands of institutional repositories
Limited to open access content Search only; no AI summaries described in the research	Anti-scraper check requires modern JavaScript and can slow page loads Covers repository content, so some paywalled literature will be missing
Web application	Web application
Closed source	Closed source
License not stated	License not stated
No account needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Needs internet	Needs internet
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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