Note: The SUSHI base URL will be changing in 2025 to accommodate the new COUNTER 5.1 standards. The new URL will be https://connect.liblynx.com/sushi/r51 Your Requestor ID and Client ID will remain the same. Please contact support@infobase.com with any questions or concerns.
SUSHI
SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) is an ANSI/NISO standard API for harvesting resource usage data, and is specifically designed to work with COUNTER reporting. Technical background on SUSHI can be found on the NISO website
Enabling SUSHI access
If you have your Admin log-in, your SUSHI info is findable at https://admin.infobase.com by clicking Reports in the left menu, then COUNTER Reports, and clicking the "SUSHI" arrow at the top right.
If you have any issues finding the info, or any questions, please email support@infobase.com.
If you do not see the COUNTER option in the reports tab, go to the Account Settings page, edit the "Admin Portal Settings," and click Display COUNTER Reports."
Once enabled, three key pieces of information are available:
- SUSHI Service URL: The base URL for the SUSHI API. The value is the same for all customers:
https://connect.liblynx.com/sushi/r5. Your SUSHI service will use this base to construct the API call to get your requested report. (note: this will be changing tohttps://connect.liblynx.com/sushi/r51in 2025; the rest of the information about your account will stay the same.) - Requestor ID/API Key: An account-specific value which grants access to the reports. Requestor ID and API Key are the same value in our system.
- Customer ID : The LibLynx ID for your account. This will not match your Infobase customer ID.
You need these pieces of information to integrate the LibLynx COUNTER reports into the reporting software. Other SUSHI fields can be left blank without affecting the transfer.
Note: If there is no usage in the account, you will not be able to activate the SUSHI reports. You can contact support@infobase.com for assistance, or create some usage by logging into the user platform and using the materials (read articles/watch videos), then check the Admin Portal in 24 hours.
If there is no usage within a particular month, the report will return with the error message "No usage available for requested dates." Different harvesting platforms may not show the message, so you may wish to check if there is usage in the Admin Portal if you are getting no results or an error.
Testing
To see the records returned, try this SUSHI format URL, with your Requestor ID in both the &requestor_id= field and the &api_key= field, and your customer ID as the &customer_id=.
https://connect.liblynx.com/sushi/r5/reports/pr?begin_date=2025-01&end_date=2025-01&requestor_id=*****&customer_id=****&api_key=****
If it says "report queued for processing," wait 5 minutes and reload the page.
NISO recommends various services for testing SUSHI:
https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/sushi/sushi-tools
It's also possible to test with a SOAP testing tool like SoapUI