DeepGreen – Open Access Transformation

Funding	German Research Foundation (DFG) (2016 – 2021)
Project term	1st project phase 01/01/2016 – 31/12/2017 2nd project phase 01/08/2018 – 30/06/2021 Pilot phase: Since July 2021
Project partners	Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Cooperative Library Association Berlin-Brandenburg (project management) University Library of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg During the DFG funding phase, beyond that: University Library of the Technische Universität Berlin Helmholtz Open Science Coordination Office at the German Research Center for Geosciences in Potsdam
Contact address	deepgreen@bsb-muenchen.de

The project DeepGreen

The service DeepGreen was developed from 2016 to 2021 in two project phases funded by the DFG. The objective was to establish a central “data turntable”, which collects articles published in open access or for which secondary publication is possible in line with the green road from publishing houses with their support, and which makes available the respectively relevant portions to institutional or subject-specific repositories. For libraries and repository operators, DeepGreen offers a substantial workload reduction along with an increase of their open access holdings. For scholars, DeepGreen provides increased visibility, and the publishing houses benefit from DeepGreen through the dissemination of their contents while their workflows are simultaneously simplified.

During the first project phase in 2016/17, DeepGreen concentrated on the technical development of the data turntable and focused on the so-called alliance licenses funded by the German Research Foundation, which were negotiated on a supra-regional level between publishing houses and libraries, together with the green open access negotiated in connection with this. Within the scope of the alliance licenses, green open access means that authors of the participating institutions are entitled to post their articles released in the licensed journals in an institutional or subject-specific repository of their own choice in the published form, and to make them freely accessible after a preferably short time.

During the second project phase from 2018 to 2021, besides the technical developments, the focus was on further license models, in particular with golden or hybrid open access articles. In addition, the service was expanded to also include specialised repositories. Within the scope of the expanded test operation, the service could already be tried out under real conditions. In 2021, over 60 repositories and eight international publishing houses (De Gruyter, Sage, Karger, Wiley, Frontiers, MDPI, Future Science, Hogrefe) used DeepGreen.

After the end of funding by the DFG, the project DeepGreen is currently in a pilot phase in cooperation with the Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (library association of Berlin-Brandenburg) and the University Library of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. This pilot phase is intended to prepare DeepGreen for permanent operation. Moreover, it is planned to further develop the “data turntable” technically and functionally, firmly establish cooperation with the repositories and publishing houses and to include further repositories and publishing houses. Here, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek assumes the central task of communicating with the publishing houses in particular.

More worth knowing on the project:
https://deepgreen.kobv.de
or see the Twitter account @oa_deepgreen