A few days ago I sent a question about setting up SUSHI connections to ProQuest and Gale. Many thanks to each of you who responded! I’m happy to report that both connections are working properly now. I was missing a particular parameter for ProQuest and for
Gale, with the help of their technical support, I figured out that our CORAL ERM did indeed have a missing feature that prevented it from creating an authenticated session with their service (all other 45-50 or so vendor connections worked without it, but
still). Once that was fixed locally, it worked. For those on this list who use CORAL also, note that I’ll add an issue for this in GitHub in the near future so that it can be tracked and fixed in a future release.
My only other comment is that although at times I am a glass is half empty person, I’m encouraged by the progress that’s been made among vendors in supporting SUSHI. A few years ago, I spent weeks tearing my hair out over trying to get things
to work, and eventually gave up. Today, it’s a heck of a lot easier, info. is readily available, and more vendors are supplying it as a matter of course, and in 99% of cases, it just works. Back then, too, documentation about all the vagaries of different
vendor setups was quite scarce and today, a lot more info. is readily available.
Thanks again, and have a nice weekend, all.
Steve
Steve
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Professor of Library Science
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