New Customization Option For WilsonWeb Resource Integration Through Gold Rush

New York, New York, June 17, 2005
The H.W. Wilson Company and the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries have announced an agreement to bring new enhanced OpenURL customization options to WilsonWeb. All WilsonWeb customers subscribing to the Alliance's Gold Rush Complete service can seamlessly link to the Gold Rush link resolver with WilsonWeb.

The Gold Rush link resolver is an OpenURL compliant reference-linking tool that is hosted and maintained by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, eliminating the need for a WilsonWeb customer to purchase and maintain a link resolver server in the library. Gold Rush Linker offers a customizable selection of over 900 targets encompassing over 50,000 unique journal titles. The WilsonWeb/Gold Rush administrator can customize the target selection precisely as desired.

With the release of the new WilsonWeb, Wilson was one of the first major database vendors to integrate an OpenURL link resolver within their database product, offering this service at no additional charge to all WilsonWeb customers. WilsonWeb's WilsonLink, powered by the ExLibris SFX software, opens a pre-set menu-based selection of targets. Wilson will continue to offer this WilsonLink menu-based option to all WilsonWeb customers at no charge.

The Gold Rush service is available to all WilsonWeb subscribers for an annual fee. WilsonWeb will also continue to offer the current WilsonLink service as always, with no additional charge.

"OpenURL integration of database resources is an integral part of research in libraries," comments Ron Miller, H.W. Wilson Director of Product Management. "With our new Gold Rush option, we're glad to offer new options that make this essential facet of library research more convenient than ever."