This document will guide you through a brief overview of SUSHI. It will also show you how to connect to SUSHI reports for Gale, A Cengage Learning Company.
The Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) Protocol standard defines an automated request and response model for the harvesting of electronic resource usage data utilizing a Web services framework. It is intended to replace the time-consuming, user-mediated collection of usage data reports.
COUNTER 4 SUSHI
Gale SUSHI Web Service -http://usagereports.galegroup.com/sushi/
You will need the information below to connect through your SUSHI client:
loc=locationID
or lib=libraryid
) loc=
) is required.COUNTER 5 SUSHI
Gale SUSHI Web Service - https://sushi5.galegroup.com/sushirequestor/requestreport.jsp
You will need the information below to connect through your SUSHI client:
loc|locationID
or lib|libraryid
) loc|
) is required.
You can use https://admin.gale.com/galeadmin/forgotPassword.gale to gain access to your Gale Admin account and find the username to use for the requestor ID.
For more information about COUNTER SUSHI protocol, please visit www.projectcounter.org.
For more information about Gale usage reporting, please see the Gale Usage Reporting Overview.
Additional Questions:
Please contact Technical Support: [email protected]