April 16, 2007

Wayne State University Libraries (MI) Implement SUSHI Standard with Innovative ERM and Swets Wise Online Content

Emeryville, CA—Innovative Interfaces and Swets announced today that the Wayne State University Libraries have achieved real-time acquisition of user statistics from within Innovative's ERM. Using the Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) model, staff can now access the high-volume of information Swets provides—enabling cost-per-use analysis and eliminating time-consuming staff chores.

In the past, the Libraries' staff were challenged to keep up with usage statistics by going to more than 50 publisher websites, downloading statistics from each one, and changing them into a format that could be analyzed. Now libraries accessing content through the SwetsWise platform can obtain usage statistics by simply selecting the usage tab in the Innovative ERM and clicking "export."

"Our Electronic Resource Management system tracks resources, as well as analyzes and stores usage information," says John Rutherford, Wayne State University Library Systems Manager. "With the new data transfer from Swets, we will be able to combine our financial information with SwetsWise usage data for the first time, eliminating time-consuming manual downloads. This will provide us with a valuable concept of cost-per-use. Together with the usage data in the new COUNTER format—which the Innovative ERM and most publishers now provide—SUSHI really expands our ability to access and manage our data."

The new functionality also increases the frequency with which staff can obtain new statistics. Because it takes dramatically less time, they can schedule automatic download of statistics every month, instead of only twice a year with the previous model. The SUSHI-compatible data from Swets and the compliance of ERM with the standard is crucial because it also eliminates the need for in-library programming.

"We are proud to work with Innovative on this initiative—customers around the world have been utilizing EDI between our services and their systems for many years. Our SwetsWise portfolio is designed to help our customers simplify the way they acquire, access and manage their subscriptions," said Frans van Ette, Swets Director of Product Marketing and Partnerships. "The implementation of the SUSHI model into SwetsWise gives our customers even greater control over their holdings, making the process of evaluating the usage and value of that content even easier."

"Our cooperation with Swets will allow Innovative's ERM customers to significantly their ability to get SUSHI-transferred data from their content providers," says Innovative's Senior Product Manager Ted Fons. "The cooperation will help the partners of both companies achieve financial efficiency and provide the most value for their users."

About Wayne State

Wayne State University Libraries rank among the top 60 libraries in the Association for Research Libraries. The library system consists of five major libraries, an ALA-accredited Library and Information Science Program and an Office for University General Education (UGE 1000). The Wayne State Library System is committed to being a national leader in the transition of library collections from print to electronic resources; to offering excellent client services; to training librarians (including school media specialists) in the information age; to supporting academic research through the UGE 1000 Office; and to developing and supporting student awareness of traditions, goals and structures of universities and their research libraries.

About Swets

Swets is the world's leading subscription services company. We build on more than 100 years of experience to maximize the return on investments in time and money for clients and publishers in today's complex information marketplace. With clients in over 160 countries and more than twenty offices around the world, Swets is a true "long tail" power that provides the most comprehensive and sophisticated e-commerce platform currently available in its field.

Swets has been included in E-Content Magazine's "100 companies that matter most in the Digital Content Industry" for the past two years, and appeared at number 95 in FEM Business' "Top 500 Companies in The Netherlands" in 2006. We are the only subscription services company that is ISO 9001:2000 certified on a global basis--a testament to our stringent operation and client service procedures.

For over 25 years, Innovative Interfaces has dedicated its energies to meeting the needs of libraries and the challenges of library automation. The company has fulfilled this mission with first-rate services and products such as the Millennium integrated library platform, the INN-Reach direct consortial borrowing solution, Electronic Resource Management, and the Encore discovery services platform. Today, thousands of libraries of all types in over 40 countries rely on Innovative's products, services, and support. The company is located in Emeryville, California with offices around the world.

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