How do you automate collection of electronic resource usage statistics?

My current workflow for analyzing our database usage statistics is pretty unideal: I visit a set of administrative web pages, sign in, download reports, & paste into a master spreadsheet. Some resources allow me to email monthly reports to myself. I know there's a better way to do this, specifically the SUSHI protocol which even has a pretty extensive list of available tools.

However, looking through that list, a few tools are for SUSHI servers not clients, a few more are SDKs & not actual software, & the others seem either outdated or deep in alpha. I downloaded Serial Solution's MISO command-line tool & while it runs the demo fine, it chokes when I try to put in our EBSCO SUSHI credentials. It also only runs on Windows which is obnoxious. I think the only other usable item on the list is JISC's SUSHIStarters but that seems to still be in alpha & requires more configuration.

Tl;dr - what cheap or open source ERM tool do you use to collect your e-resource usage stats? I'm not opposed to a paid product but I'm assuming that most of the proprietary ERM solutions are out of my (very small) college's price range.

phette23

• statistics
• e-resources

Comments

• Joe: If everything's available as webpages, you might be able to handle it similar to a screen scraping job. Something like Perl's WWW::Mechanize (examples) could help to automate the process.
• phette23: The biggest problem is that's a Perl script, not a UI. It'd take some serious work to get that pulling stats from several password-protected sites. Coral is the only open source SUSHI software I can find, & Serials Solutions' 360 & Scholarly Stats seem to be subscription services. Anyone with experience have a recommendation?