NEWS
RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Denver, CO. September 3, 2009
The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries is pleased to
announce a new “Export All Holdings” report in the Gold Rush Staff
Toolbox. This report is available to all libraries that use Gold Rush for
A-Z/link resolution and/or ERM (electronic resource management). The new report
allows a library to easily export their entire set of holdings from Gold Rush
in .csv (comma separated value) format which can then be easily imported into
Excel or other applications.
The “Export All Holdings” feature allows
libraries to export everything or to customize the extract to exclude classes
of materials such as open access journals, print journals and indexed-only
titles. These customizations can be run in any combination. Once
the report is staged the user will receive an email indicating report
availability (usually within 15 minutes) and will receive a link to a Website
where it can be downloaded. These reports can be quite large and this
avoids the problem of email limitations, firewalls and spam filters.
“Export All Holdings” shows all journals from
all title lists which a library has configured (selected) in the Gold Rush
“Holdings” tab. This report does not de-duplicate titles but
lists journals in every database in which they appear. It is
recommended that if the export is loaded into Excel, that version 2007 or later
be used since older versions have a limit of 65,536 rows.
Gold Rush supports a wide array of data export options
and to facilitate easy access to some of the options a new section has been
created in the Reports tab which groups many of the export options together so
that a library can determine what report is best for them. The
reports included in this tab include:
1.
Export All Holdings (described above)
2.
Download Journal Information for Provider and Database
(this supports the export of an individual title list)
3.
My Full Text Journals (this is a simple list of journal
titles/ISSNs which is de-duplicated and is a great place to get a
full-text journal count)
4.
XML Google Scholar Holdings (this is a library’s
XML holdings which are shared with Google Scholar if a library has configured this
feature. It is a de-duplicated list and shows maximum years of coverage)
Not included above is a full XML extraction report which
can be run through the Gold Rush XML Gateway (called GRX) which allows a library
to essentially extract the same data as found in the new Export All Holdings
report but it is formatted in an XML markup. This full XML extraction has
been available for over a year and is described in the GRX Documentation.
About Gold Rush
Gold Rush is Web-based central digital registry of databases
and electronic journals including both stand-alone and titles embedded within
aggregated services. Gold Rush Complete offers a suite of tools for public
access and staff management. Gold Rush Complete offers openURL link
resolution, subscription management (ERM), a public search interface (A-Z) with
an additional Web services layer and content comparison.
About The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (http://www.coalliance.org) is a
non-profit consortium of eleven libraries in Colorado and Wyoming. It is
a long term partnership of academic, special and public libraries with a
history of working in concert to share resources through cooperative
purchasing, special projects, systems management and consulting services.
For more information contact:
George Machovec or Rose Nelson
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
3801 E. Florida, Suite 515
Denver, CO 80210
(303) 759-3399 (phone)
(303) 759-3363 (fax)
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George
Machovec
Associate
Director
Colorado
Alliance of Research Libraries
3801
E. Florida, Suite 515
Denver,
CO 80210
(303)
759-3399 x.101
(303)
759-3363 (fax)