Gold Rush is licensed on an annual basis, and can be licensed for a single library or a set of libraries in a consortium. There are 2 levels of license available -- Gold Rush Reports and Gold Rush Complete.

This option allows library staff to compare title lists from over 1,300 aggregators, publishers, and indexing/abstracting services that have been loaded into Gold Rush. It allows comparison of the content within packages even if the library does not subscribe to them! This is especially helplful to collection development, library administration, and reference staff who are trying to make tough decisions on what products to purchase and cancel.

All reports are generated in real time over the Web and may be viewed on most standard browsers or downloaded into Microsoft Excel™. Title lists are updated on a regular basis in order to provide the latest and best information possible.

Since Gold Rush loads metadata from fulltext sets plus those that are only indexed, it is useful for comparing content between aggregators, between aggregators and indexing/abstracting services, as well as just between indexing services.

Gold Rush Complete includes the following elements:

• Subscriptions management (electronic resource management system)
• OpenURL link resolution
• Public search interface (A-Z)
  
• Content Comparison (i.e. Gold Rush Reports)
  

Gold Rush is centrally maintained and requires no programming or management of a local server.  The system allows you to easily tailor holdings, create a customzed interface and manage all aspects of the service through Web forms.

Subscribers have access to large online knowledgebase that can be selected and tailored to your local set of subscriptions.  Gold Rush also has a large body of open access journals that can be selected and added to your holdings at no additional cost.

Some Gold Rush Unique Features

1. Users have access to the entire knowledgebase
2. Gold Rush maintains both full-text information as well as where titles are indexed
3. The system is online and real-time.  Whenever you make a change on the staff side it immediately updates your institutional knowledgebase that drives your openURL link resolver and public search interface
4. Gold Rush is very low cost and available at a flat annual fee regardless of your size, use or number of subscriptions
5. Gold Rush is independent of any local integrated library system and can interoperate with virtually any catalog.  Current libraries using the system use such systems as Innovative Interfaces (III), Voyager (Endeavor), SIRSI, TLC/CARL and others.
6. You can download virtually all reports in Excel format including title lists from the central knowledgebase or your locally customized version 

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