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This article discusses what SUSHI is and how it works. SUSHI stands for standardized usage statistics harvesting initiative. It was created specifically to solve the very problem of retrieving and having to reformat the usage reports. The promise of SUSHI is that, with wide adoption, it will drastically reduce the time spent collecting usage data and will greatly increase that data's quality and consistency. It offers an opportunity to ensure that the vital usage data is easy to obtain and that it's accurately reflected and fairly represented in the collection analysis process. (Contains 4 figures and 3 endnotes.)

Information about topics discussed at "The E-Files: Investigating E-Journal Tools and Trends" workshop held at the Mississippi State University on July 8, 2005 is presented. Oliver Pesch, the chief strategist of e-resources for the electronic journal provider EBSCO Information Services, presented the life cycle of electronic resources including acquiring, administering, and evaluating the resources. An overview of how vendors and agents can help libraries manage electronic resources is given.

This presentation provides a brief background on COUNTER, looks at changes brought on by Release 2 of the COUNTER code of practice and discusses the upcoming audit requirement to ensure and enforce compliance. It touches on the next area of focus of COUNTER before examining how technologies such as metasearch and pre-fetching by browsers can negatively affect usage reporting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the services that serial publications agents can provide to libraries to assist with electronic journals. Among these are licensing services, license management, registration assistance, access management tools, information about licenses and resources, workflow tools, tracking systems, and new types of reports. EBSCO Publishing Services has created a license service to assist libraries in working with publishers. This service allows EBSCO to act as negotiator on the library's behalf. The EBSCO Bibliographic Update Service is an add-on to the A-Z Journal List. It provides cataloging assistance for e-resources by supplying 856 links. The service supports both the single record and separate record cataloging approach.

Successfully connecting users to content in an online environment demands a high level of accuracy in the information eco-system. However, journal titles change names and International Standard Serial Numbers (ISSNs). When publishers, subject indexes, link resolvers, or other parties involved in connecting users to content fail to accurately represent the original details of cited articles, links fail, content becomes inaccessible except to very accomplished and determined librarians, and users become frustrated. The PIE-J (Presentation and Identification of E-Journals) offers a simple and common-sense set of recommended practices and guidelines for publishers and content providers to follow to standardize the presentation and identification of e-journal content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]