1. Towards a Comprehensive Online Union Catalogue of Serials from and about the Middle East: Online Access for Consolidated Information on Serials (OACIS) Melcom International, The European Association of Middle East Librarians, 28 th Annual Meeting 19-21 June 2006, Istanbul, Turkey Presentation by Simon Samoeil OACIS Project Manager, Yale University

2. Review of goals To create a freely available publicly accessible web site featuring a continuously updated union list of Middle Eastern serials –In all formats (including live web links) –From 20+ countries (ME as defined by LC) To lay foundations for the future, delivering widest possible information access –Expanded cooperation and participation –Document delivery/ILL –Digitization and preservation To create a Union List of Middle East Serials

3. OACIS Advisory Board Alexendrina Library, Alexandria, Egypt Cornell University Ohio State University Universitaets-und Landesbibliothek of Sachsen-Anhalt in Halle, Germany University of Pennsylvania University of Michigan University of Texas University of Washington Yale University

4. Universities Participating in OACIS American University of Beirut New York Public Library New York University Princeton University Stanford University Tishreen University, Latakia, Syria University of Arizona, Tucson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign American University of Cairo (Future member) University of Utah Jordan University, Amman, Jordan

5. OACIS for the Middle East Mirror Sites

6. Basic Search by Title

7. Search By Title

8. Libraries ’ Holdings of the Title

9. Limit to a Specific Library

10. Advanced Search (1)

11. Advanced Search (2)

12. Search by Different Languages Option

13. Search in Arabic Language (1)

14. Search in Arabic Language (2) by Title

15. Search in Arabic Language (3) Results

16. Statistics Report Language Statistics

17. Search Statistics

18. Search Statistics Detail Report for February 2005 MonthInterfaceModeChoice# FebruaryarAdvancedLimit to1 FebruaryarAdvancedTitle47 FebruaryarAdvancedPlace7 FebruaryarAdvancedSubject47 FebruaryarBasicTitle17 FebruaryarBasicPlace21 FebruaryarBasicSubject4 FebruaryenAdvancedLimit to11 FebruaryenAdvancedTitle41 FebruaryenAdvancedPlace16 FebruaryenAdvancedSubject11 FebruaryenBasicTitle1081 FebruaryenBasicPlace33 FebruaryenBasicSubject95 FebruaryfrBasicTitle4 FebruaryfrBasicPlace3 FebruaryfrBasicSubject1 This Month's total1440 Previous Month's total405 Percent Successful Searches This Month46.39

19. OACIS Data Delivery Activity April 2006