[Eril-l] COUNTER4 report harvesting?

[Melissa Belvadi]

Thanks all for the clarifications, about SUSHI, the two service companies
that I didn't know about, and other discussion.

Steve, one part of the problem may be content vendors not supporting all
possible reports, but aside from LexisNexis, I haven't yet found a vendor
that we work with that is at all COUNTER compliant and yet fails to support
all of the COUNTER4 reports that are relevant to their type of content.

For me right now, the biggest problem is COUNTER harvester services that
are failing to support all of the COUNTER reports that our content vendors
are already making available.

A close second behind that is definitely the lack of adequate SUSHI support
by the COUNTER-compliant vendors, I agree.

Melissa


On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Steve Oberg <steve.oberg at wheaton.edu>
wrote:

> This is an interesting and worthwhile conversation, but I think there are
> layers of the onion that need peeling (without tears ;-)).
>
> As someone else pointed out, I don’t think SUSHI — the standard — is the
> problem here. It’s whether or not vendors have implemented all available
> reports.
>
> In addition, according to the COUNTER Code of Practice, some reports are
> required and others are optional, so I think that’s good to keep in mind.
>
> A third point is that we are not yet at a stage where all vendors are
> COUNTER R4 compliant, or even providing COUNTER reports, or supporting a
> SUSHI service at all, let alone supporting a SUSHI service to deliver R4
> reports. And some vendors claim COUNTER compliance and yet clearly are not.
>
> I’d encourage others to participate in the USUS community website at
> http://www.usus.org.uk as this is a way to focus our advocacy.
>
> One more thing: the ERM I use here is CORAL (http://coral-erm.org) and
> its usage statistics module supports ingest of the following COUNTER R4
> reports: JR1, BR1, BR2, and DB1. The CORAL open source community is engaged
> in many different projects to enhance the tool and one thing on our roadmap
> is to enable ingest of *all* R4 reports. I’m not sure yet when that will
> be ready and available but wanted to mention that it is front of mind for
> many of us in that community.
>
> Steve
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Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca 902-566-0581
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