[Eril-l] USTAT

[Bazemore, Edward Brooks (CDC/OPHSS/CSELS) (CTR)]

Hello.

Indeed there is a trick to get USTAT to work with JAMA on Silverchair. Quoting JAMA support “We have come to find that the USTAT SUSHI client requires that you enter your Administrator Dashboard password into the USTAT email field. Furthermore, USTAT requires this to be formatted as a valid email.”

Another poster on ERIL advised me of this off list but our administrator email address doesn’t meet the password strength requirements so support reset it. Also, had to delete the current JAMA account on USTAT and start fresh. Hope this helps others avoid similar frustration.

Ted

From: Bazemore, Edward Brooks (CDC/OPHSS/CSELS) (CTR)
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 2:35 PM
To: 'Jill Emery' <jill.emery at gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [Eril-l] USTAT

Thank you, Jill.
This is very helpful - Ted

From: Jill Emery [mailto:jill.emery at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2016 1:27 PM
To: Bazemore, Edward Brooks (CDC/OPHSS/CSELS) (CTR) <tnb0 at cdc.gov<mailto:tnb0 at cdc.gov>>
Cc: eril-l at lists.eril-l.org<mailto:eril-l at lists.eril-l.org>
Subject: Re: [Eril-l] USTAT

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<mailto:tnb0 at cdc.gov>> wrote:
Hello.

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?

Thanks in advance.
Ted

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Ted Bazemore, Electronic Resources Librarian
Contractor, LAC Group
Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA 30329-4027
404-639-2397<tel:404-639-2397>
tnb0 at cdc.gov<mailto:tnb0 at cdc.gov>




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