NEWS RELEASE

 

For Immediate Release: Denver, CO. March 23, 2010

 

 

SUBSCRIPTIONS:  ADVANCED SEARCH & EXPORT FEATURE

 

The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries is pleased to announce “Advanced Search and Export”, a new enhancement to the Subscriptions module. This new enhancement allows you to build powerful search queries and then select which fields in the subscription record to include in a report which can be viewed on screen and downloaded into a csv (Excel) file for further analysis. With this new search feature you can view all subscription records with a wild card search (*) or select certain criteria from which to limit the search.  The advanced search uses typical search conditions such as equal to, not equal to, less than, greater than, contains, does not contain.     

 

Advanced Search and Export is located under the Subscriptions module under the first section, institution subscriptions—fourth bullet down.   In addition, we have included a “view only” option which allows one to run a query and download a report,  but not modify any of the subscription record details.  Note: we have labeled this a beta version.  We would like your feedback and suggestions to include in any changes we might make to this feature.  So please give it a try and let us know what you think.

 

**To activate this new feature, go to Settings>Add Edit Users>check box for advanced search and export under “Subscriptions-Site”.

 

 

Typical information that can be gathered with this new feature may include, but is not limited to:

 

·         How much money spent each year on a particular vendor

·         All License agreements for a particular year

·         Vendors that don’t allow you to ILL resources

·         All contracts that expire at the end of the fiscal year

In order to take full advantage of this new feature, libraries will need to enter data into the Subscription module.  It’s not necessary to fill out all fields only those for which you want to capture information.  The advanced search can query all existing fields in the subscription record as well as custom created ones.  

 

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 thirteen 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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