EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Non-commercial services can integrate BASE search for free using an API. BASE has become an increasingly important component of open access initiatives concerned with enhancing the visibility of their digital archive collections.

On 6 October 2016, BASE surpassed the 100 million documents threshold having indexed 100,183,705 documents from 4,695 content sources. As of 2022, it had indexed over 315 million documents