[Eril-l] USTAT

[Jill Emery]

Hi Ted,

I've made Silvershair work in USTAT for the JAMA Journals.

URL: http://sushi.silverchair.com/SUSHIservice.svc?wsdl

When you are in the admin site for Silverchair there is a tiny scripted
link at the bottom of the page that reads: "How do I use SUSHI to generate
COUNTER reports?" When you click on this, it gives you the set-up
information needed.

As for how useful a utility USTAT is; I'd say it is not nearly as robust as
it needs to be. It is good at providing rough usage estimates and good for
public reporting of usage but not worthy enough data to use for collection
management decisions.  Ex libris is promising with the move of usage
collection to ALMA that there will be improvements but I'm suspect as to
how greatly this service will be improved given their other company
objectives right now.

All the best,

Jill




On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Bazemore, Edward Brooks (CDC/OPHSS/CSELS)
(CTR) <tnb0 at cdc.gov> wrote:

> Hello.
>
>
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> Does anyone know if Silverchair is just not compatible with USTAT or is
> there a trick to making them talk to each other? I cannot seem to get any
> journals on Silverchair to work (using Chrome or Firefox) although I get
> different error messages depending on whether I use the URL Silverchair
> gives me (http://sushi.silverchair.com/SUSHIservice.svc) or the one USTAT
> pre-populates the field with (
> https://silverchair.com/api/soap/analytics/SushiService). Depending on
> which I try, I get either “Requestor not authorized” (although its pasted
> directly from SC’s SUSHI instructions) or a programming error
> [java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not generate DH keypair].
>
>
>
> More generally, I’m interested in experiences with USTAT as a primary
> means of collecting COUNTER usage data. We are looking at re-registering
> our subscriptions with the USTAT  SUSHI service and so far the difficulty
> with Silverchair seems to be a one stumbling block. Also, I see the reports
> USTAT generates are for calendar year only. So, I’m wondering - Do you see
> it as an effective tool for harvesting statistics? Have you been able to
> configure it so it replaces the need to manually download stats from each
> publisher or do you use it as a supplement? Or, alternately have you found
> issues with its functionality that causes you to abandon it. If so, is
> there another system that you would recommend?
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> Thanks in advance.
> Ted
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> Ted Bazemore, Electronic Resources Librarian
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> Contractor, LAC Group
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