Gold Rush has just released an important upgrade/fix to its Gold Rush Linker v.4 software.  The new fix allows you to create article level links with different URLs to the same provider but for different databases.

Background

Gold Rush Linker v4 was released in July 2006.  One of the features of this release was the ability for sites to create their own article-level linking algorithms to any provider.  The vast majority of online services use a single article-level linking algorithm to all databases in their system.  These worked fine in the new release.

However, a few online services have different article-level linking algorithms for each database in their service.  To support this, additional development had to be done and this new functionality has just been released

What to do

Existing article-level linking algorithms to major providers such as EBSCO, ProQuest, Wilson and Thompson/Gale and others are fine and do not need to be touched.  However, if you have created multiple linking algorithms to the same provider (CSA as an example) go to “Settings – Manage Gold Rush Linker – Linker Targets” and select a target (or create a new target).  You will now notice that after you create the linking algorithm you will need to select both a Provider and an associated database.  In cases where all databases from a provider use the same algorithm you can select a setting that says “All databases from this provider” (this is the default setting).

At the present, CSA seems to be the major provider that requires this new functionality although there may be others as well.

Please contact us if you have questions.

George