It’s nearly Independence Day here in the U.S., and your friends at Springy have a firecracker of an announcement for you: SUSHI scheduling! You can now schedule the automated harvesting of supported SUSHI reports, on a monthly, quarterly, semi-annually, or annual basis, to your E-Journals / Databases or eBooks datasets. Gone will be the days of retrieving one file at a time (but you still can, if you want to!). Just set it, and forget it, until it’s time to analyze. You will receive an email each time a file is successfully harvested and added to your dataset, or if a fetch fails for any reason.
Here’s what you’ll need to get started:
- Your SUSHI credentials from e-resources vendors.
- The list of reports that are supported by each vendor. We support DB1(r4), DB3 (r3), PR1 (r4), JR1 (r4), BR2 (r4), but not all vendors make all of these available via SUSHI.
- A LibInsight E-Journals / Databases dataset, or an eBooks dataset, with platforms added.
Protip: Be sure to specify your SUSHI provider in your platform information. This will mean that the SUSHI provider is pre-selected when you set up a new SUSHI schedule. To get to Platform Information quickly, click Datasets in the orange command bar and look for the cog icon.
To set up a new schedule, go to that dataset’s Record Data page, choose a platform, click Schedule Future SUSHI Harvesting, and click Add New.
Please see our help documentation for E-Journals / Databases and eBooks datasets for complete information on when your scheduled SUSHI files will be harvested and added to your system. If you’re not signed up for today’s Getting Started with LibInsight training session, check out past recordings, and keep an eye on our training calendar for more upcoming sessions.
ICYMI – Other Recent Updates
Here are some additional features and fixes we’ve added to LibInsight:
E-Journals / Databases & eBooks Datasets
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It’s now possible to add Cost Data for future years.
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Regular users with a dataset Admin permissions are now able to add platforms.
- We added support for SUSHI harvesting from Thieme, Adam Matthew Digital, Lexis/Nexis, and Springer Nature.
Custom Datasets
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If your custom dataset’s timestamp is set to “Show One Date Only,” and the field is set to “Show Time,” a time picker is displayed rather than a date picker.
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We fixed a couple of issues with chart labels.
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We now accept dash-delimited data in addition to slash-delimited data. (Slash dot dash dot!)
Dashboards
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You can add a chart to a Dashboard graphing “Entered by” for the records in a dataset. Useful if Reference transactions or Instruction session data are entered by lots of different people.
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Numeric fields used in Dashboard charts are SUMmed rather than COUNTed.
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If a field is used in a Dashboard, you will not be able to delete it from its dataset until you remove it from the Dashboard.
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LibInsight now uses HSTS, and all API endpoints are HTTPS.
Other Stuff
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If you delete custom chart colors in System Settings, we’ve restored the defaults for you.
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You can now download all library data from your Gate Count dataset in Analysis, rather than one library at a time.