E-resource access and management services provider Serials Solutions, US, and the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) jointly announced the public release of the code to the new standards-based Serials Solutions Open-Source SUSHI client. This code is drafted for use with Standard Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) servers at ProQuest, CSA, and Chadwyck-Healy. Librarians and content providers can use this code to build standards-based SUSHI utilities for enhanced COUNTER report processes.
Supporting NISO's SUSHI Protocol (http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi), the Serials Solutions open source SUSHI client code will enable libraries to build consistent, stable, and standards-based tools. It is the first release of what the maintenance committee hopes will be many open source toolkits for libraries.
Content providers have been advised to implement SUSHI by the end of August in order to remain compliant with Release 3 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases. Libraries or content providers interested in the Serials Solutions open source SUSHI client can access the code at http://code.google.com/p/sushicounterclient/.
