Prospector Update

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A Product of the Colorado Alliance of Research
Libraries
Charleston Conference November 4, 2004
Presented by Robert Anderson Software
Engineer/Project Manager
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The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries

• Located in Denver, Colorado
• Consortium of research, public, and educational
  institutions in Colorado and Wyoming
• Run Integrated Library Systems (CARL, III,
  Voyager)
• Negotiates, acquires, and manages electronic
  databases for members
• Develops products and services for libraries
  which are unmet in the marketplace
• Created CARL ILS system and UnCover

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Gold Rush Customers

• Auraria
• University of Colorado at Boulder
• University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
• Colorado State University
• Colorado School of Mines
• University of Northern Colorado
• University of Denver
• University of Denver, Law School
• Regis University
• University of Wyoming
• Denver Public Library

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Gold Rush Customers

• Seattle Pacific University
• Oregon Institute of Technology
• Oregon State University
• University of Puget Sound
• Whitman College
• Eastern Washington University
• University of New Mexico
• Catholic University of America
• McNeese State University
• Brigham Young University
• Minnesota State University
• University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
• LOUIS (Louisiana Library Network)
• MOBIUS Consortium Office

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• Patron access to electronic resources through
  search interface
• Management of electronic resources
• Consortium views of resources
• Comparison reports of resources
• Electronic resource subscription management
• OpenURL linking

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Gold Rush Development

• Fall 2000 projected started
• 2001 - Public and staff components released to
  Alliance members
• 2002 Gold Rush Linker (OpenURL resolver)
  released to Alliance members
• 2003 Gold Rush made commercially available
• Product uses MySQL, ColdFusion, PERL, and
  JavaScript
• Web based service hosted at Alliance offices in
  Denver
• Developed with consortium viewpoint, but also
  works with individual libraries.
• Sold as complete package or reports/evaluation
  tools only

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Gold Rush Holdings

• Started with JAKE data
• Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment April
  1999 Yale University
• Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
• Procuring title lists from publicly available
  sources from Vendors

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Gold Rush DemoCharleston Conference

• Free Demo website available
• Contact using http//grweb.coalliance.org
• George Machovec george_at_coalliance.org

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