Showing posts with label SUSHI. Show all posts
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Friday, 2 May 2008

Breakout session 3a: SUSHI: a beginner’s guide to NISO’s Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative

My briefing session on Tuesday afternoon was a guide to SUSHI. Oliver Pesch began by discussing the importance of usage statistics and how the COUNTER initiative had ensured that statistics would be reliable so that they could be used for making informed collection development decisions. The SUSHI project aims to save time by automatically harvesting statistics rather than the reports needing to be downloaded. Pesch ended by reminding the audience that although statistics were useful they are only a way of highlighting the need for further investigation and should not be used blindly - that little used database may be vital to the researcher bringing in large grants.
Kathryn