Systems, alphabetically:
Access Management
Aleph
Digital Repository
E-Research (Metalib)
E-Resource Management
Find it
Full Text Search
Image Delivery
Streaming Delivery Service
Geospatial Library
Libraries Portal
Name Resolution
OASIS
OLIVIA
Page Delivery
Reserves List Tool
Virtual Collections (VC)
TED
VIA

These are the online systems supported by HUL OIS that are considered to be "in production" (that is, they are substantially complete and officially available).

Consult the Under development section for systems still under development.

Systems overview

Online catalogs / Cataloging systems
Delivery systems
Storage and access management systems

See also Digital Project Services for information about incorporating HUL systems into your collection digitization project.

Online Catalogs/ Cataloging systems

Aleph Library System

Aleph is the automated library system used by Harvard libraries to process library materials and provide public access to Harvard library holdings. Aleph replaced the HOLLIS Library System in July 2002. Note that the public catalog portion of Aleph is still called the HOLLIS Catalog.

Harvard Libraries Portal

A web-based gateway to library catalogs (including HOLLIS), research databases, and full text (including thousands of electronic journals). The Portal offers E-Research @ Harvard Libraries (Metalib), Find it resource-linking service. Portal resources are managed by the E-Resource Management (ERM) System.
Connect to Harvard Libraries Portal

Visual Information Access (VIA)

The Visual Information Access system (VIA) is a web-based union catalog of visual resources at Harvard.
Connect to VIA.

OLIVIA

OLIVIA is a centrally-supported cataloging system for visual materials, designed to supply data to the VIA union catalog.

OASIS

OASIS (Online Archival Search Information System) provides electronic access to information about manuscript and archival collections at Harvard.
Connect to OASIS.

Harvard Geospatial Library

The Harvard Geospatial Library is a web-based system that provides access to geospatial materials held by Harvard's libraries.
Connect to Harvard Geospatial Library.

Virtual Collections (VC)

Virtual Collections (VC) is a HUL OIS service that can harvest descriptions and links from HUL union catalogs (e.g., HOLLIS, VIA, Harvard Geospatial Library) and provide a web-based search and display interface of these materials for the user. Using a virtual collection, a curator can create a unified, web-based view of thematically related resources that exist in a number of systems or within a single system.

TED (TEmplated Database)

TED (TEmplated Database) is a hosting service that provides an online home for specialized collections catalogs which do not fit within the scope of existing Harvard catalog systems.

Delivery systems

Page Delivery Service (PDS)

Page Delivery Service (PDS) delivers to a web browser scanned page images of books, diaries, reports, journals and other multi-page documents from the collections of the Harvard libraries.

Image Delivery Service (IDS)

IDS delivers digital images that are stored in the Digital Repository Service (DRS) to web browsers. In general, images available through this service have been converted from photographs, slides, prints, and other two-dimensional media held in special collections throughout the University. IDS can secure images to the Harvard community (i.e., those with a Harvard ID number and PIN) when appropriate. Currently, IDS is the service that delivers many of the digital images described in the VIA catalog, but it can also serve images cataloged in HOLLIS, OASIS, or any other catalog or web site that supports URL linking.

Streaming Delivery Service (SDS)

SDS delivers digital audio that is stored in the Digital Repository Service (DRS) to web browsers.

Full-text Search Service (FTS)

FTS was launched in the summer of 2001 to provide a mechanism for efficient indexing and retrieval of textual digital objects. Search options include Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), quoted phrases, and proximity. For indexed text items that have dates associated with them, searches can be qualified by a date or date range. The FTS server is accessed as an option of PDS for searching the full text (such as OCR) of page-turned objects. The FTS server can also be accessed directly, as in the case of the Harvard-Radcliffe Online Historical Reference Shelf. See Creating an FTS Search Form for more about offering FTS search from an external web site.

Storage and access management systems

Digital Repository Service (DRS)

The Digital Repository Service (DRS) provides Harvard-affiliated owners of digital material with a storage and retrieval system for their collections. Also included here is information about the Batch Builder application.

Name Resolution Service (NRS)

The Name Resolution Service (NRS) is a comprehensive service for creating, maintaining, and resolving names, which are persistent, location-independent identifiers for network-accessible resources. Name resolution is the process of mapping from a given abstract name to a URL that represents a particular instantiation of the named resource.

Access Management Service (AMS)

The HUL Access Management Service provides Harvard ID/PIN-based access control in front of web-accessible electronic resources. AMS authenticates user identities and common user profile information is made available to requesting systems. AMS offers a single authentication challenge per browser session, regardless of which resources or systems are accessed during that session.