Fast Facts
ADVANCED search tools
CUSTOMIZABLE ordering workflows
Overview
OASIS is an online ordering platform used by academic librarians responsible for selecting and acquiring content for use by patrons. OASIS streamlines workflows by resolving common pain points for all academic libraries. Subject specialists use OASIS to search and select from a vast database of print and electronic books and streaming video in one system. Acquisition librarians use OASIS to review the alternate formats, licensing and platform options before placing orders. Through EDI and APIs, information in OASIS can flow electronically into the Ex Libris Higher-Ed cloud platform and other systems.
In addition, ProQuest provides several services to ease a librarian’s workload:
- Shelf-Ready Services send print books to the library with protective covers, identification markers and theft prevention devices applied so titles are ready for circulation.
- Collection & Workflow Consultants work collaboratively with librarians to build book profiles and programs to meet your book collection goals and budgets.
- Various levels of cataloging to suit a library’s specific needs, including WorldCat Collection Manager, and customized MARCs.
Growing options to support libraries’ current need for ebooks.
OASIS and Rialto regularly work with the Publishing and Aggregator community to provide new services and expanded programs to make needed ebooks available.
Please check back often as this information will be updated as publishers announce new programs.
Services
When your library wants to continue to order print titles but cannot receive shipments, our E-First, Print Later service can help. Our team can match all available options and discounts for ebooks to a library’s open print shipments being held.
50% off E with Print
When your library wants to provide electronic access to print books currently in your holdings, we have “50% off E, if you own the print” offers. Our team can help match your print holdings to available ebooks on these platforms.
- EBook Central for participating publishers
- Taylor & Francis publisher direct
Publisher Direct Discounts
Publisher Direct platforms on OASIS and Rialto offer the following discounts on the purchase new ebooks. Prices in OASIS and Rialto will reflect the discounts offered by the publishers.
- IGI-Global: 20% off InfoSci® ebooks
Broadest Title Database in the Industry
Access to the broadest print and ebook title database in the industry, with powerful search tools that make OASIS easy to search.
Flexible Ordering Workflows
OASIS supports multiple ordering and selection workflows for both print and ebooks, including approval plans, firm orders, standing orders, demand driven acquisition, EDI ordering and MARC ordering.
Convenient Integration into a Library's Existing Workflow
OASIS fits seamlessly into workflows through customizable fields for local data, free MARC downloads and convenient collection management tools like duplication control.
Comprehensive Title Metadata Foundation
Functionality in OASIS is supported by metadata from one of the most comprehensive bibliographic and cataloging knowledge bases in the industry.
Alma – OASIS Ordering API Integration
Experience faster insertion of order data into Alma, streamlined book workflows, improved staff productivity and ensured data accuracy. The Alma-OASIS Ordering API is provided to libraries at no additional cost.
ProQuest is committed to growing Publisher Direct in 2020 through additional monograph and streaming video publishers, improvements in the workflow and expanded ebook commercial models including Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA).
Current list of publishers available for OASIS & Rialto:
- Alexander Street
- Cairn.info
- Cambridge Core
- De Gruyter
- Ebook Central
- EBSCO eBook
- Elsevier ScienceDirect
- IGI Global
- Karger
- Oxford University Press (UPSO)
- Project MUSE
- Rittenhouse R2 Digital Library (platform fee applies)
- SAGE Knowledge (platform fee applies
- Taylor & Francis
- Wiley Online Library
- World Scientific
Related Products
Rialto
Rialto rebuilds the selection and acquisition process for academic libraries to deliver naturally efficient workflows, data-supported decisions, and the right information at point of decision through unification with Ex Libris Higher Ed platform, Alma.
iFound
iFound is an integrated out-of-print and hard-to-find service that allows libraries to search and purchase second-hand books via OASIS.
ProQuest Collection & Workflow Consultants
ProQuest Collection & Workflow Consultants work collaboratively with librarians to build book profiles and programs to meet library collection goals and budgets.
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