Platform Launch Information for Librarians

Key facts, features, and transition details

• Launch Date: January 1, 2019. 

• Institutional Administration: Log into your account to see your institution's COUNTER statistics, IP addresses, and subscription information. All information for librarians is accessible via your personal username and password. We have created a brief introduction to the institutional administration dashboard guide (PDF) for your reference.

• Why: The new BioOne platform (remaining at BioOne.org) gives BioOne Complete a more modern and intuitive look and feel, while retaining all of the functionality that our subscribers and users rely upon.  It also better positions us for growth in the future, allowing for more flexibility in content models and e-commerce. Most importantly, this move redirects a major cost center to a collaborative, not-for-profit partner. 

• Nonprofit Collaboration: The new BioOne Complete platform has been built in in partnership with SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. This significant partnership leverages SPIE’s proprietary platform technology to meet the needs of BioOne’s community, including its more than 4,000 accessing libraries worldwide. 

• Look and Feel: The new site features a refreshed look and offers enhanced functionality and improved usability. Development of additional features and fine tuning of the interface will continue long past official launch.

• Improved Mobile and Off-Site Access: The mobile version of the site provides a much improved user experience. Users at subscribing organizations who create and sign into an account while on their organization's network will be affiliated with the organization's subscription and will have full off-site access.

• Full-Text HTML: As on the previous site, all journal content is displayed in full-text HTML alongside the downloadable PDF.

• Personalization Tools: Creating a free personal account allows any user to save content to a personal library and sign up for a variety of email alerts.

• Information for End Users: To help get new users started and assist with promotion, please see our Get Started with BioOne Complete guide (PDF).Users also have access to a robust Help section, which contains detailed tutorials for many of the site's features.
  
  

Note: If your institution uses EZProxy to provide remote access, please be sure to update your proxy configuration file as soon as possible following launch. We have added the updated EZProxy database stanza to our Resources for Librarians and Administrators page, and  Migration FAQ (PDF, updated Jan 1).

Additionally, if you harvest metadata through OAI-PMH, please note that our URL will be changing, and you will need to update your harvesters accordingly in order to continue to have access. Likewise, if your institution uses a SUSHI tool to harvest COUNTER reports, you will need to update the tool’s settings post-launch.

Make sure everything is working for you and your patrons

First and foremost, please email helpdesk@BioOne.org if you are unable to access your subscription / licensed content. 

As part of the migration process, your existing library administrator account has been imported into the new site, but you must reset your password before you can access the account for the first time. If you reset your password during the preview period you will not need to do this again.

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COUNTER Reports and SUSHI Harvesting

Note: All of your institution's COUNTER data may not be fully imported at this time, and thus you may not be able to pull reports from the site at the moment. Reporting will be ready when the site launches. All 2018 COUNTER data will be available shortly after launch.

The new BioOne Complete platform is compliant with COUNTER 5 standards and will begin collecting COUNTER 5 compliant data upon launch. The first COUNTER 5 report (for January 2019) will be available in February, but reports for usage pre-January 2019 will be in COUNTER 4 format.

COUNTER reports are available in the new Institutional Administration dashboard. The new tool will provide data from the current COUNTER reports as well as several years of back data. Older reports will be available on request.

If your institution uses a SUSHI tool to harvest COUNTER reports, you will need to update the tool’s settings. You will no longer use the previous SUSHI service URL (http://www.bioone.org/api/soap/analytics/SushiService) and credentials. Instead, you will use our new platform’s SUSHI service URL (https://sushi5.scholarlyiq.com/counter/r5) and the new credentials required to access this service. Find your new credentials by logging in to BioOne Complete and clicking the arrow next to your account name in the black bar at the top of the screen. Click Institutional Administration, then select COUNTER Reports, then click the “View COUNTER Reports” button to access the reporting dashboard. In the top right of the reporting dashboard, click the green button labelled with your institution's name to display a menu; select SUSHI from the menu. A one-time registration will be required in order to view your institution’s credentials (Requestor ID and Customer ID).