Join NISO for our June webinar: Making Better Decisions with Usage
Statistics

DATE: June 13, 2012
TIME: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Eastern
INFORMATION & REGISTRATION:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/nisowebinars/usage_statistics/

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ABOUT THE WEBINAR

As libraries move to become centers of digital collections, maintaining
information on the usage of these collections is ever more critical. It's
also essential to be able to maintain common measures across heterogeneous
collections to be able to effectively analyze how the library's collection
dollars are being spent. The Project COUNTER Code of Practice and the SUSHI
protocol aid in this work. This webinar will explore the newly-published
Release 4 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for e-resources and highlight its
use in conjunction with the SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting
Initiative) protocol in an active library environment.

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS

--- Release 4 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for e-Resources -- Peter
Shepherd, Project Director, Project COUNTER

Release 4 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for e-Resources, recently
published, provides a single, integrated Code of Practice for the recording
and reporting of usage of journals, databases, books, reference works and
multimedia content. It includes an number of new features, such as a
requirement to report separately the usage of Gold Open Access articles and
new reports covering usage on mobile devices. In my presentation I will
describe the new features in Release 4, how they will improve the usage
statistics as a basis for decision-making, as well as the process and
timetable for its implementation.

--- SUSHI: More Relevant than Ever -- Oliver Pesch, Chief Strategist,
E-Resource Access and Management Services, EBSCO Information Services

Standardize Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) is a standard
designed to enable automation of the harvesting COUNTER usage reports. The
need for SUSHI is even stronger today as it was in 2007 when it became a
NISO standard. This presentation will discuss changes to SUSHI related to
Release 4 of the COUNTER Code of Practice as well as provide an overview of
some key initiatives of the SUSHI Standing Committee that will accelerate
SUSHI adoption and interoperability.

--- Usage Statistics Workflow in an Academic Library -- Amy Lynn Fry,
Electronic Resources Coordinator, Bowling Green State University

Amy will talk about how academic libraries are dealing with the realities of
gathering, collating, reporting and interpreting usage data in an
increasingly complex and high-stakes environment using her own institution,
Bowling Green State University, as a case study. She will discuss how
Bowling Green State University recently restructured their statistics
workflow for completeness, accuracy and efficiency, how they are working
with standards like COUNTER and SUSHI, and how they have streamlined the
process of gathering and managing data by using wikis and the Innovative
ERM.

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm
Eastern on June 13, 2012. Discounts are available for NISO and NASIG members
and students.

Can't make it on the webinar date/time? Register now and gain access to the
recorded archive for one year.

Visit the event webpage to register and for more information:
http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/nisowebinars/usage_statistics/

Cynthia Hodgson
Technical Editor / Consultant
National Information Standards Organization
chodgson@niso.org
301-654-2512

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