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• SUSHI Resources Slides -- for use with SUSHI presentations; includes web captures and links to useful resources on the SUSHI website.

• SUSHI Standing Committee Quarterly Report (August 31, 2010)

SUSHI Presentations & Webinars

• 2012-May-21. COUNTER 4: Data that Really Counts! A vendor’s perspective. Presentation by Oliver Pesch (Chief Strategist, E-Resources, EBSCO Information Services) at the Society for Scholarly Publishing 2012 Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA.

  2012-April-4. NISO Standards and Best Practices: Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI). Presentation by Oliver Pesch (Chief Strategist, E-Resources, EBSCO Information Services) at ER&L, Austin TX.

 

• 2012-January-21, COUNTER and SUSHI: Evolving standards to meet evolving needs. Presentation by Oliver Pesch (Chief Strategist, E-Resources, EBSCO Information Services) at the ALA 2012 Midwinter Conference, ALCTS CE Electronic Resources Interest Group
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• 2010-September-20, Usage Statistics in Context: Related Standards and Tools. Presentation by Oliver Pesch (Chief Strategist, E-Resources, EBSCO Information Services; and Co-Chair of NISO’s I2 [Institutional Identifiers] Working Group and SUSHI Standing Committee) given 20 September 2010 at the aap/PSP/COUNTER education event, "Usage Statistics and Publishers: Implementation and New Insights" in Washington, DC. See http://www.pspcentral.org/UsageStatsFlyer.cfm

• 2010-June-26, NISO SUSHI Update. Presentation by Bob McQuillan (Senior Product Manager, Innovative Interfaces, Inc.; and member of NISO's SUSHI Standing Committee), at the ALCTS CRS E-Resources Interest Group meeting, "Down for the Count:  Making the Case for E-Resource Usage Statistics" at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, DC. See http://www.library.yale.edu/~llicense/ListArchives/1006/msg00014.html for more information.

• 2010-January-17, SUSHI: Updates and Applications. Presentation by Hana Levay, Information Resources Librarian at the University of Washington and co-chair of the SUSHI Standing Committee, at the Continuing Resources Standards Update Forum (sponsored by the ALA ALCTS Continuing Resources Section, Continuing Resources Standards Committee and Swets) at the ALA 2010 Midwinter Conference in Boston, Massachusetts. See http://connect.ala.org/node/91015 for more information.
  

• 2009-January-23, NISO Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI): Z39.93. Presentation by Chan Li (Library Data Analyst, California Digital Library) at the 2009 ALA Midwinter Conference in Denver, Colorado.
   
• 2008-November-28, SUSHI, COUNTER and ERM Systems: An Update on Usage Standards. Presentation by Oliver Pesch (Chief Strategist for Information Technologies, EBSCO Information Services) at Ressources électroniques dans les bibliothèques électroniques : Mesure et Usage, in Lille, France.
   
• 2008-November-6, NISO Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI): Z39.93. Presentation by Adam Chandler (Information Technology Librarian, Cornell University) at the 2008 Charleston Conference as part of the session, "Vendor Usage Reports: Are we all on the same page now?"
   
• 2008-November-6, Implications of Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice. Presentation by Oliver Pesch (Chief Strategist for Information Technologies, EBSCO Information Services) at the 2008 Charleston Conference as part of the session, "Vendor Usage Reports: Are we all on the same page now?"
   
• 2008-October-2, SUSHI: Beyond Trial Into Real Use, NISO webinar. This page includes the slides from the event, Q&A, and links to additional resources.

• 2008-June-29, Status of the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI), Z39.93, presented at the NISO Update at the ALA Conference, Anaheim, CA
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• 2006-September-28, SUSHI at Work, Part 2: The Technology, presented by Oliver Pesch at NISO workshop on Managing Electronic Collections, Denver, CO
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• 2006-October-27, Project COUNTER and SUSHI: An Overview, presented at NFAIS Forum: Online Usage Statistics, Philadelphia, PA

• 2006 SUSHI Webinar Series

A series of three webinars were held in 2006 on NISO's Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI).

Thanks to the generous support of EBSCO Information Services, Ex Libris, Serials Solution, Swets Information Services, and Thomson Scientific, NISO was able to offer these webinars free of charge and make recorded versions available to those who could not attend.

NOTE: In order to view the recorded versions of the SUSHI webinars, you must first download and install the free Webex Player software.
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• • Introduction to SUSHI (May 17, 2006)
    Presenters: Adam Chandler of Cornell University (and co-chair of SUSHI); Phil Davis, also of Cornell; and Tim Jewell of University of Washington.
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  • SUSHI: The Technology Unveiled (May 24, 2006)
    Presenters: Oliver Pesch of EBSCO Information Services (and co-chair of SUSHI), and Ted Fons of Innovative Interfaces.
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  • SUSHI for Developers (November 15, 2006)
    Presenter: Petar Vucetin of EBSCO Information Services
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• 2006-January: SUSHI: Standards Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative. Presented by Tim Jewell and Oliver Pesch at ALA Midwinter conference in San Antonio, TX.

SUSHI Press Coverage & Articles

• 20-December-2011, Van Overborg, Gary, John Milligan, and Michael Lee. Scholarly iQ and SUSHI: A Case Study. Information Standards Quarterly, 2011 Fall 23(4):12-17
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• 23-March-2011, Shah, Brinda. SUSHI Implementation: The Server Side Experience. Information Standards Quarterly, 2011 Winter, 23(1):20-22.

• 23-March-2011, Villa, Omar. SUSHI Implementation: The Client Side Experience. Information Standards Quarterly, 2011 Winter, 23(1):18-19.

• 24-June-2010, NISO ALA Annual 2010 Handout: SUSHI. Includes, "Need Help Implementing SUSHI? Visit the SUSHI Website for Assistance," and "SUSHI Server Registry."

• 21-May-2009, "Serials Solutions Releases Open-Source Code for SUSHI Client: Librarians and content providers can use code to build standards-based SUSHI utilities for enhanced COUNTER report processes." NISO Press Release.
   
• 4-November-2008, "NISO Announces SUSHI Schemas Supporting Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases Finalized: Schemas, Greatly Improved Supporting Materials, Now Available to Assist Adoption." NISO Press Release.
   
• 8-September-2008, "Media Alert: Webinar on SUSHI." NISO Media Alert.
   
• 2007-November 8, "NISO SUSHI Standard Gets Approval of American National Standards Institute: ANSI/NISO Z39.93-2007 Aids Collection of COUNTER Statistics," NISO Press Release.

• 2007-June, "SUSHI, Not Just a Tasty Lunch Anymore: The Development of the NISO Committee SU's SUSHI Standard," by Arthur Hendricks, Library Hi Tech 25.3: 422-429.
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• 2007-April, "SUSHI: What It Is and Why You Should Care," by Oliver Pesch, Computers in Libraries 27.4: 6-10.
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• 2007-April 16, Wayne State University Libraries (MI) Implement SUSHI Standard with Innovative ERM and SwetsWise Online Content
  
  
• 2007-January, "SUSHI: Simplifying the Delivery of Usage Statistics," by Oliver Pesch, Learned Publishing 20.1 (January 2007): 23-29.
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• 2006 December, Systems Must Change To Help Knowledge Management: SUSHI Protocol Simplifies Things for Librarians, Research Information, December 2006/January 2007.
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• 2006-November-02, Washington State University Libraries Implement SUSHI Standard with Innovative ERM and ScholarlyStats
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• 2006-September-22, EBSCO Releases SUSHI 1.0 Server
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• 2006-Septmeber, "The NISO Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI)," by Mark H. Needleman, Serials Review (September 2006) 32.3: 216-217.
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• 2006-September, ScholarlyStats and Thomson Scientific announce successful SUSHI test
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• 2006-October-4, ICOLC's Revised Guidelines for Statistical Measures of Usage of Web-Based Information Resources
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• 2006-September-19, NISO Issues SUSHI Draft Standard in Record Time
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• 2006-July-13, MPS and ExLibris perform SUSHI usage data transfer for Yale library
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• 2006-June-12, ScholarlyStats and Thomson Scientific announce successful SUSHI Test for University of Melbourne
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• 2006 April. "Standards--Libraries, Data Providers and SUSHI". Against the Grain feature article.
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• 2005-11-23: "Ex Libris Verde ERM system Successfully tests SUSHI to deliver raw usage statistics." Press Release.
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• 2005-11-22: " Upcoming Release of Electronic Resource Management speeds transfer of usage statistics." Press Release.
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• 2005-11-22: "EBSCO Information Services successfully tests Web service for harvesting usage statistics." Press Release.
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• 2005-11-22: "Swets and SUSHI take first ground-breaking steps." Press Release.
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• 2005-11-15: "NISO Initiative to Standardize Online Usage Statistics Harvesting." Press Release.