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Clean-up Vendor SUSHI Accounts

TAYLOR RALPH, COLLECTION ASSESSMENT LIBRARIAN AT OSU

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Usage Data in Alma

COUNTER 5 CODE OF PRACTICE

  • http://www.projectcounter.org/
  • The standard for counting the use of electronic resources at the title, database, or platform level
    • Views/downloads or ‘uses’
    • Turnaway data
    • OA usage
    • Usage by YOP
    • Electronic journals, books, other media (items)

SUSHI

  • Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative
  • API for each vendor
  • Allows usage data to be harvested manually or automatically to be downloaded or used in Alma Analytics reports
  • Set up in vendor record under the ‘Usage Data’ tab

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What does this look like?

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Potential problems

  • Change from Counter 4 to Counter 5 in Jan 2019. Since then, vendors have been switching over and making C4 no longer available
  • Broken links/inaccurate information
  • Too many vendor accounts!

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Where’s the data?

If the data is not here- it is not usable in Alma Analytics!

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Using Analytics to identify missing SUSHI accounts

Columns: vendor name, has corresponding SUSHI account in CZ but not in institution, no. of available portfolio

Filter: has corresponding SUSHI account in CZ but not in institution is equal to/ is in Yes

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Using Analytics to identify outdated SUSHI accounts

  • Columns: vendor code, load file status, load file upload method, load file COUNTER report type, load file SUSHI account, load file COUNTER release
    • Filter: Load file upload method is equal to/ is in SUSHI

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Updating the record

  • SUSHI Vendor Lists from Ex Libris
  • Contact vendor for requester ID, customer ID, password
  • Test connection