I have a couple of thoughts on your questions....

1.  Gold Rush has two different types of interfaces....one is the
classic Gold Rush public interface where you can place a search (the
search box can be place on another Web page) but you are navigated back
into the Gold Rush environment.  The second is our XML Gateway (called
GRX).  Using this technique you submit an XML search and you will
receive back an XML data stream which can be embedded in your existing
Website.  Full documentation is available for this by going to the ? tab
in the Gold Rush Staff Toolbox.  Your IT guy should be able to do this.

2.  Could you provide a sample search in Google Scholar which might
highlight some of your problems and we would be happy to look at them in
more detail.

Thanks
George


George Machovec
Associate Director
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
3801 E. Florida, Suite 515
Denver, CO  80210
(303) 759-3399 x.101
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From: Goldrush Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Laughlin, Kristen
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 1:20 PM
To: goldrush-l
Subject: Embedding the Gold Rush search in an iframe/Google scholar
issues

Hi all,

I am sure you'll all be sick of hearing from me soon!  We have a couple
more issues we are trying to tackle, and I am wondering if anyone here
has any tips. You all were so helpful regarding promotional materials, I
just had to continue to bug you!

1. We are trying to embed the Gold Rush search into our main library
search box.  We would like to keep this in an i-frame, so that the
patron is not navigated away from the library page when opening a Gold
Rush search. Has anyone else done this?  Our wonderful IT guy is getting
an error with the i-frame and can't seem to figure out what is going
wrong.  Our other option is to have Gold Rush open in a new window,
which we could do, but of course it is nicer to keep the students on the
library page if we can.

2. We are having some issues with Google Scholar.  Journal level links
from Scholar work and authenticate automatically via IP address, but
article level links give a login screen.  Also, although all of our
"electronic link label" links lead to full-text content, our "other link
label" usually just leads to a citation for something that we don't
have, but *sometimes* to full-text content.  

Any tips/thoughts greatly appreciated!!


Kristen Laughlin, MLIS
Library Assistant 
Jones International University
9697 East Mineral Avenue
Centennial, CO  80112
T: 303-784-8392
F: 303-784-8548