News Release March 28, 2007 New Open Access Digital Library The Open Access Digital Library <http://grweb.coalliance.org/oadl/oadl.html> ( http://grweb.coalliance.org/oadl/oadl.html <http://grweb.coalliance.org/> ) is a FREE collection of over 4,000 scholarly, peer reviewed journals in a variety of subject areas. We developed this library to help supplement libraries' paid subscriptions to digital content and to also create unified access to free scholarly resources. We culled together all the open access journals in Gold Rush and created a searchable full-text library. Some of the collections included in the library are Highwire Open Access Journals, Nature Journals Online, The Directory of Open Access Journals, Government Serials List, PubMed Central and BioMedCentral. We have also included several individual open access journals and links to large digital repositories such as DLESE, the Digital Library of Earth System Education. The best way to find items in the library is to search by journal or database name. You can also browse for journals through our A-Z list. If you know of open access resources that aren't in the library, please let us know. You can send an email including a link to the resource to [log in to unmask] You don't need to be a Gold Rush subscriber to search the library. It's free and open to anyone. We hope this is a useful resource for patrons and librarians alike. Visit the Library at: http://grweb.coalliance.org/oadl/oadl.html <http://grweb.coalliance.org/> Rose Rose Nelson Systems Librarian Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries http://www.coalliance.org <http://www.coalliance.org/> 303-759-3399 X103 (ph) 303-759-3363 (fax)