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sholarlystats won't push sushi off the usage menu.(Standardised USage Harvesting Initiative)( MPS Technologies )(Brief article)

Information World Review

| February 06, 2006 | Caldwell, Tracey | COPYRIGHT 2006 Incisive Media, published with the permission of Incisive Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Tracey Caldwell

Hot on the heels of successful tests

of the Sushi protocol for delivering usage reports, MPS Technologies has launched the ScholarlyStats service to help librarians analyse the usage of e-journals and databases. MPS and supporters of Sushi (Standardised USage Harvesting Initiative) both say the initiatives are complementary.

Companies trialling Sushi said they had successfully completed testing at the end of last year. Sushi is based on Project Counter developments, which have defined a commonly accepted set of definitions, data processing rules and formats for usage reports from suppliers, and aims to allow the automated delivery of reports.

MPS insisted ScholarlyStats was not a Sushi spoiler. Company spokeswoman Martha Sedgewick said: "Once Sushi has become widely adopted, MPS intends to use it to further automate our processes and pass the cost savings on to our customers."

But she added that there could be a long wait. "It is likely to take some time for the Sushi standard ...

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