The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries is a US nonprofit cooperative of approximately 20 academic and public libraries in Colorado and Wyoming.
Purpose
The Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries was established in 1974. One major function of the Alliance is to share resources and provide the best terms and price to its members by group purchasing.Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries home page. Retrieved April 2007. Projects of the Alliance over the years include:
Prospector, a unified catalog of academic, public, and other libraries in Colorado and Wyoming (current) Gold Rush, a database of online article resources (fulltext journals and abstracts) and access options; now primarily an analytics tool for library collections (current) Alliance Digital Repository, 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.
UnCover
CARL started as a character-based access system to resources, particularly catalogs of participating libraries as they were being computerized, available via dial-up internet long before the advent of World Wide Web. The Alliance system eventually included a subset of Dialog. The flagship Alliance product was UnCover, an article index database. UnCover provides free article search and access to the article text for a fee. The product was spun off in 1988 Knight-Ridder to acquire UnCover (Leticia Alvarez) SERIALST: Serials in Libraries Discussion Forum, 1995 into a for-profit company, later owned by Knight Ridder and then Dialog before becoming briefly Uncover, Inc. In 2000, UnCover was acquired by IngentaIngenta plc 2000 Annual Report and is now accessible as a part of Ingentaconnect.
Members The following libraries are members of the Alliance: Library University Arthur Lakes Library Colorado School of Mines Auraria Library Community College of DenverMetropolitan State University of DenverUniversity of Colorado Denver CSU Libraries Colorado State UniversityCSU-Pueblo University LibraryColorado State University Pueblo Denver Public Library N/ADouglas County LibrariesN/A Henry Strauss Health Sciences Library University of Colorado Anschutz Jefferson County Library N/A Kraemer Family Library University of Colorado at Colorado SpringsLeslie J. Savage LibraryWestern Colorado University McDermott Library and the Base LibraryUnited States Air Force Academy Penrose Library University of Denver Regis Libraries Regis University Tomlinson Library Colorado Mesa University Tutt Library Colorado College University Libraries University of Colorado Boulder UNC Libraries University of Northern Colorado UW Libraries University of Wyoming
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