Deep Green

DeepGreen started as a multi-year DFG project with two funding phases. In the first phase of the project, 2016-2017, it was possible to demonstrate that the Open-Access component contained in the alliance licenses can be implemented automatically via a technical solution: publishers can feed in publications and metadata on a cyclical basis via a data hub with defined interfaces. Subsequently, authorized institutional Open-Access repositories are served with the data via individual accounts. The allocation of license agreements is provided by queries to the Electronic Journals Library (EZB), which provides all the necessary information on the terms of the Alliance licensing agreements. A clear assignment of publications to the authorized institution is achieved by evaluating the existing affiliation data.
In the second project phase 2018-2021, additional licensing models were integrated into DeepGreen, such as open access transformation contracts, licenses for Specialized Information Services (FID), or even golden open access models, and the service was extended to special subject repositories.  The focus of the second funding period was the technical test phase of handling large publisher data deliveries and connecting different repository software types, which started in July 2019. Between September 2019 and June 2021, DeepGreen successfully mapped 35,083 publications from eight publishers and delivered them to 62 institutional repositories and three specialized information repositories.

The DeepGreen project has started into a two-year pilot operation in July 2021, with the goal to develop a sustainable financial model.

01.01.2016 until 30.06.2021 with DFG funding, since then: pilot operation for self-financing

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