Examples of use of OACIS
1. In the first stage of the virtual library project, known as the Online Access to Consolidated Information on Serials (OACIS), Yale has created a list of 14,000 Middle East journal holdings in 20 libraries from Arizona to Syria.'4; It includes scholarly journals in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, English and French among other languages relevant to the region. '4; Okerson calls this stage a "building block." "In a library setting, a building block is always kind of basic information about information.'4; The proper term that everybody uses now is metadata.'4; It‘s in effect, the catalog," she said.