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Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
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LocationColorado; Wyoming
Established1974
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Websitewww.coalliance.org

The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries is an association of a number of libraries in Colorado and Wyoming.

Purpose

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The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries was established in 1974. One major purpose of the Alliance is to share resources and provide the best terms and price to its members by group purchasing.[1] Projects of the Alliance over the years include:

  • Prospector,[2] a unified catalog of academic, public, and other libraries in Colorado and Wyoming (current)
  • Gold Rush,[3] a database of online article resources (fulltext journals and abstracts) and access options (current)
  • Alliance Digital Repository,[4] a consortial repository service supporting the preservation of, management of, and access to digital content (current)
  • CARL and UnCover (historical)

Prospector also provides a faster and more convenient mechanism for interlibrary loans from member libraries, which can be ordered by patrons directly from the catalog.

CARL and UnCover

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CARL started as a character-based access system to resources, in particular catalogs of participating libraries as they were being computerized, available via dialup long before the advent of World Wide Web. The CARL system eventually included a subset of Dialog. The flagship CARL product was UnCover, an article index database. UnCover provides free article search and access to the article text for a fee. CARL was spun off in 1988[5] into a for-profit company, later owned by Knight-Ridder[6] and then Dialog[7] before becoming briefly Uncover, Inc. In 2000, UnCover was acquired by Ingenta[8] and is now accessible as a part of Ingentaconnect.[9]

Member libraries

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These libraries are members of the Alliance:

Library University
Arthur Lakes Library Colorado School of Mines
Auraria Library Community College of Denver
Metropolitan State University of Denver
University of Colorado Denver - Denver Campus
CSU Libraries Colorado State University
Denver Public Library N/A
Douglas County Libraries N/A
Health Sciences Library University of Colorado Denver - Anschutz Medical Campus
Jefferson County Library N/A
Kraemer Family Library University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Penrose Library University of Denver
Regis Libraries Regis University
Tomlinson Library Colorado Mesa University
Tutt Library Colorado College
University Libraries University of Colorado at Boulder
UNC Libraries University of Northern Colorado
UW Libraries University of Wyoming

References

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  1. ^ Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries home page. Retrieved April 2007.
  2. ^ "Homepage". Prospector. Archived from the original on June 1, 2022. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  3. ^ "Gold Rush". The Alliance. Archived from the original on May 11, 2008. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
  4. ^ "Digital Repository | Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries". Archived from the original on 2014-07-01. Retrieved 2014-09-26.
  5. ^ Knight-Ridder to acquire UnCover (Leticia Alvarez) SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum, 1995
  6. ^ A new day dawns: KRI acquires CARL. (Knight-Ridder Information), Searcher, September, 1995
  7. ^ Dialog Sells Carl And Uncover To Ward Shaw, Online Newsletter, March, 1999
  8. ^ Ingenta plc 2000 Annual Report Archived 2008-08-29 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "Homepage". Ingenta Connect. Archived from the original on February 17, 2018. Retrieved August 30, 2022.
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