It can be helpful to know if you already own a title when you are looking to order new titles. Several vendors provide the ability to either load or connect your holdings with their ordering platform.
It's possible to publish your holdings in Alma to OASIS so that bibliographers can see what you already own, making the “pre-searching” step in Alma unnecessary. Another option is to link the ISBN in the OASIS display to your Discovery search for on the fly searching.
Sending Holdings to OASIS:
You may also receive email notifications from OASIS if you’ve supplied your email address to them. These don’t typically match the numbers in the Alma report, not sure why.
After the job runs, OASIS will update their display (usually overnight) to indicate the library holdings, giving bibliographers the ability to see what we already own:
Setting up Discovery Link in GOBI:
EBSCO Documentation: