Libraries spend enormous amounts of money on electronic databases and online full-text resources. Gold Rush helps patrons find what content is embedded within these resources through a Web-based public search interface and through a full functioning link resolver (OpenURL compliant). Library staff can use Gold Rush to help manage their subscriptions to electronic resources, compare the content of title lists between different electronic products and can manage the content of their public interface and link resolver.

Different libraries have different needs. You may already be using some other commercial service for public access to journal title lists or a link resolver. In this case, Gold Rush Reports would be perfect for you. However, Gold Rush is one of the most cost effective solutions for a Web-based journal title list or link resolver. In this case either Gold Rush Basic or Gold Rush Complete may better meet your needs.

We are also willing to talk with you if you have a customized need for just one portion of the system.   

We manage the Gold Rush system on your behalf. You do not have to run a local server or have any training in programming, Unix administration, NT administration or other technical expertise. We will provide you with a login to the Web-based Gold Rush Staff Toolbox that will let you manage your own environment. You can create new users with different capabilities as needed.

 

Gold Rush is an online real time service accessing over 1,300 databases. Whenever we update a title list it immediately becomes available to you. There is no waiting. Currently, only titles with ISSNs are added to Gold Rush. Title lists are updated on different frequencies depending on the publisher, aggregator or indexing/abstracting service. Lists are updated on a quarterly basis unless a provider has less frequent updates themselves. Selected high-profile services such as EBSCO, Gale Group and OCLC FirstSearch will be done more frequently. For a list of databases loaded within the last 6 months see:  http://grstaff.coalliance.org/dbloadreport.cfm. 

Gold Rush may be purchased as part of a local consortium or you may acquire it on a stand alone basis. There are some benefits to being part of a consortium purchase such as a lower cost for the annual subscription fee and the ability for patrons to take on different identities in the public interface if they have library cards for more than one library.

Gold Rush has many different kinds of searching in its public interface. These include a variety of keyword searches, browse searches and ISSN searches. By using the Journal Title Browse search and limiting to full-text you can create online real-time A-Z lists of titles to which you subscribe.

Gold Rush does not discard any metadata from publishers, aggregators and indexing/abstracting services. We maintain titles that are available in both full-text as well as just indexed. This has many benefits.

• It allows you to compare the full range of content between different title lists for collection development purposes in Gold Rush Reports.
• It allows the patrons to see where something is indexed as well as where the full text resides. In cases where there is no full-text online a patron may be able to find an abstract of an article or may get ideas of what indexes to use to extend their research.

We are constantly adding new title lists to Gold Rush. If you find something that has not yet been loaded please email us at goldrush@coalliance.org and we will work on finding and adding that title list if it is available.

Yes, you can load your own title lists and also add titles to an existing title list.

Yes, we can load your list of serials from your local OPAC. Simply export your list of serials from your OPAC and send us the tab delimited file. We only need ISSN's and titles to load the list into Gold Rush. We can create custom url's for most local systems, so that when a patron does a search in Gold Rush, they link directly to your catalog if you own the item locally.  You can also own your own list of serials or add journals to an existing list.  

Gold Rush currently has title lists from over 1,300 aggregators, primary publishers, and indexing/abstracting services representing over 50,000 unique journal titles.

The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries is a non-profit consortium of eleven libraries in Colorado and Wyoming. It is a long-term partnership of academic, special and public libraries with a history of working in concert to share resources through cooperative purchasing, special projects, systems management and consulting services. We are members of the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC). More information about the Colorado Alliance may be found at http://www.coalliance.org.

We developed the service on behalf of the libraries in our consortium. As a non-profit organization we are not trying to make profit and any revenue from this project goes to support the project or help the member libraries of the Colorado Alliance. Gold Rush is a not-for-profit initiative.

No FAQ can cover every topic. Please send additional questions to goldrush@coalliance.org for more help. We have also established a whole separate FAQ section for Gold Rush Linker to answer questions about our link resolver.

Here are links to some of the libraries that are currently using Gold Rush:

• University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
  
• Preston Medical Library
• Chicago Public Library
• Mesa State College
• Pacific Lutheran University
• Fort Collins Public Library
• University of New Mexico
• Santa Fe Institute
• Oregon State Library

You can request a trial to Gold Rush by sending an email to goldrush@coalliance.org, Please indicate "trial" in the subject line and include the library and name of person requesting the trial. We will set up a username and password to a Gold Rush trial site. You can also call the Alliance at 303-759-3399 if you have further questions about Gold Rush or setting up a trial.