[Web4lib] [lita-l] Journal Usage Statistical collection software - suggestions?

[Tom Keays]

Sorry. Link is:
http://code.google.com/p/sushicounterclient/

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Tom Keays <tomkeays.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> Serials Solutions provides an open source (you host it) client for
> harvesting SUSHI stats. It is intended to be used with 360 Counter,
> but I don't think that's a requirement. As Aaron said, it is still
> early days for SUSHI compliance.
>
> Tom
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Dobbs, Aaron <AWDobbs at ship.edu> wrote:
>> Brandon,
>> We went with a vendor-hosted solution, SerialsSolutions 360 Counter.
>> We use SerialsSolutions for our A-Z list, cross-database linking, and ERMS - so 360 Counter made the most sense for us.
>> SUSHI is coming along, but I haven't been watching to see how many publishers/database vendors are providing SUSHI feeds lately and cannot address this. We do still load delimited COUNTER compliant data (and massage non-compliant data into COUNTER compliant format for loading) into 360 Counter.
>> Hope this helps...
>> -Aaron
>> :-)'
>>
>> Aaron Dobbs
>> Systems & Electronic Resources Librarian
>> Ezra Lehman Memorial Library
>> Shippensburg Univeristy of Pennsylvania
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Brandon Dudley [mailto:brandon at discontent.com]
>>> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 11:20 AM
>>> To: lita-l at ala.org; CODE4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU; web4lib at webjunction.org
>>> Subject: [lita-l] Journal Usage Statistical collection software -
>>> suggestions?
>>>
>>> Apologies for cross-posting. My institution is currently evaluating
>>> methods of collecting COUNTER stats in a comprehensive way. We
>>> currently
>>> use Excel spreadsheets to calculate cost-per-use and gather all the
>>> stats together, but I am hoping that there's a better way. In today's
>>> climate, justifying our spending decisions grows ever more important.
>>>
>>> I am aware of JURO and JURO4c, and of the Swets Scholarly Stats
>>> commercial packages - are there any other options worth consideration?
>>> Anybody devised their own slick homegrown method of collecting such
>>> stats?
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>> Brandon Dudley
>>>
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