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Byline: Tracey Caldwell
SUSHI to satisfy usage demands
Co-ordinated usage statistics aim to improve usage management and journal subscription
Tracey Caldwell
Librarians will be able to track their usage of online content much more easily as the SUSHI initiative becomes more widespread this year.
SUSHI, the Standardised Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative, was created by the US standards body NISO to make it easier for libraries to track usage. At the moment the job of tracking which journals have been accessed online and how frequently, means collating statistics from each individual publisher in a variety of ways. This is time consuming and costly.
The SUSHI protocol for harvesting the statistics was developed by a small group -- including Ex Libris, Innovative Interfaces, ...
Source: HighBeam Research, SUSHI to satisfy usage demands.(Standardised Usage Statistics...