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Finding Aid Preview Service

Finding Aid Preview is a publicly-accessible service for previewing how a finding aid will look in OASIS.  This Preview is available to any Harvard EAD author and is designed for authors who are not authorized to use the OASIS Interactive Loader.

If you have questions or problems with Finding Aid Preview, please use the OIS feedback form to contact the OASIS support team.

To use Preview:

  1. Point your browser at the Preview service: http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/selectFA.
  2. Click the Browse button to locate the xml finding aid on your local file system.
  3. Click the Preview button to view the finding aid within the OASIS full finding aid view.

    Screenshot of Preview window

The finding aid will open within the OASIS framed full finding aid view. This is a fully functional preview -- all table of contents navigation and links should work as they would in OASIS.

Preview cannot upload files – you will still need to use the interactive loader or batch loader to send the finding aid to OASIS.