[Eril-l] Setting up SUSHI Harvesting for Usage Data Collection Streamline

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The Project COUNTER Registry is your friend for setting up SUSHI.
https://registry.projectcounter.org/
It will provide basic info, such as contact info for the vendor, their SUSHI server URL, the required fields, reports provided.

You will benefit from having your admin logins current. Usually the Customer ID, Requestor ID, and/or API key can be found in the COUNTER stats area of admin sites.

Which tool will you use for harvesting?  There are several available, some for free and some for a fee, and some built into other tools (i.e. SUSHI is built into Alma).  They have different levels of complexity to set up and use well. The COUNTER site lists some tools:
https://www.projectcounter.org/counter-harvester-tools/
If you are just getting started and do not have a budget for a tool, the  R5 Harvester tool<https://www.projectcounter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/SUSHIHarvesterR5.zip> is a good starting tool.
If you have a small budget, I recommend CELUS.  I can't say enough to convey how much I like this tool.  It will do much of the heavy lifting for getting you up on SUSHI and makes it very easy to get useful info from the harvested data.

Good luck!

Athena

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Hello.

I am curious how to start the process of setting UP Sushi in a much needed attempt to streamline our data collection.

I am looking on https://www.niso.org/ but still not sure what needs to come first and what questions I need to ask before we get too far ahead of ourselves.

In the past we have not used SUSHI Harvesting and I would like to incorporate this and see if it will assist our data collection process.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks.
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Tracy M. Cole
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USA Libraries Collections
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Mobile, AL 36688
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