Hello everyone!
As some of you already know, we'll be releasing the next version of Gold Rush soon. We've decided it will be released at the end of August. Most of the changes in this version are in the background, making Gold Rush more efficient, more stable, and more scalable. These background changes will also make it possible for us to move forward on a number of new features and enhancements like generating better, more useful statistics for the public interface. We have also made some major improvements in the target management area in the Gold Rush Staff Toolbox.
We'll also be releasing a new version of Gold Rush Linker that will work with the new database structure. There is one bug fix in this release of GR Linker as well. Gold Rush Linker will now understand that you do have access to an article if the full text end date is "current," and the date of the article is in the future. This will accommodate those publishers who insist on claiming a certain publication date for a released issue, even though the date hasn't occurred yet and the issue is already published.
One other change we've made is in how we assign the all important inst_code. The inst_code is the piece of information you pass to Gold Rush on any links you build into your Gold Rush system. It tells Gold Rush which library you are.
Up until now, we've had Gold Rush groups (e.g., Alliance libraries are one group, ORBIS Libraries are another group), which get a numeric code, and Gold Rush institutions, which get a three letter code. With this version of Gold Rush, we're merging these two codes into one. So, if you were in group 000001, and your old inst_code was "AUR", then your new inst_code is "001_AUR".
If you've created links in your web pages which take your users into Gold Rush, you will need to change the inst_code parameter in those links. We will be rolling out Gold Rush V4 on the morning of August 31st. Beginning on August 31st, you should start working on changing those links. Do not change your links before August 31st.
We will be supporting the old links for transition period of at least a month, so you don't have to get everything changed immediately, but you will need to change them.
Here's a list of current groups and codes, along with your new codes...
GR Group 001 (Alliance Libraries)
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Auraria Library AUR 001_AUR
Colo. School of Mines CSM 001_CSM
Colo. State U. CSU 001_CSU
Denver Public Library DPL 001_DPL
Univ. of Denver, Law DUL 001_DUL
Univ. of Denver, Penrose DUP 001_DUP
Fort Collins Public FCP 001_FCP
Univ. of Colo., Health Sciences Center HSC 001_HSC
Regis RGS 001_RGS
Univ. of Colo., Boulder UCB 001_UCB
Univ. of Northern Colo. UNC 001_UNC
Univ. of Wyoming WYO 001_WYO
GR Group 006 (ORBIS Libraries)
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Whitman College PEN 006_PEN
GR Group 065 (LOUIS Libraries)
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LOIUS Consortium Office LOU 065_LOU
GR Group 106 (University of New Mexico)
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University of New Mexico UNM 106_UNM
Santa Fe Institute SFI 106_SFI
GR Group 110 (SCAMEL Libraries)
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Univ. of Oklahoma, Health Sciences Center HSC 110_HSC
Oklahoma State Univ. Health Sciences Center OSU 110_OSU
Texas Tech Univ. TTU 110_TTU
GR Group 114 (Catholic Univ. of America)
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Catholic Univ. of America CUA 114_CUA
GR Group 115 (TLC Libraries)
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International College ICF 115_ICF
GR Group 118 (Brigham Young University Libraries)
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Brigham Young Univ., Provo BYU 118_BYU
New Groups!
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Univ. of Alaska Anchorage UAA 119_UAA
Pacific Lutheran University PLU 121_PLU
Thanks!
Scott
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