Project Details
Projekt
DeepGreen – Open Access Transformation Establishment and development of legally safe workflows for the efficient implementation of open access components in licensing agreements for scientific publications
Applicants
Roland Bertelmann; Dr. Klaus Ceynowa; Jürgen Christof; Professor Dr. Thorsten Koch; Konstanze Söllner
Subject Area
Data Management, Data-Intensive Systems, Computer Science Methods in Business Informatics
Security and Dependability, Operating-, Communication- and Distributed Systems
Security and Dependability, Operating-, Communication- and Distributed Systems
Term
from 2018 to 2021
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 401038572
2011 important priorities were set to realize the open access movement: In Germany, libraries negotiated so-called Alliance licenses with publishers, which seal extensive open access rights. Authors of institutions, that have therewith access to licensed journals, can freely publish their articles without or after only a short embargo period in a repository of their choice.However, academic institutions need new ways to cooperate with publishers for the requested – and by German Research Foundation (DFG) supported – open access transformation process. The project DeepGreen provides a working solution to this transformation by relying on the nearly fully automated distribution of article data from publishers to repositories. With DeepGreen, the applicants aim to interdisciplinary make the majority of publications, which should be open accessible due to licensing contexts, available online.While the previous grant (DFG number 274939300) prototypically tested the practicability of the projects target, "DeepGreen - Open Access Transformation" – together with publishers, authorized libraries and other institutions – will establish a standardized workflow, automated as much as possible, that firstly covers the delivery of data, including the full texts, of the publishers, and secondly performs the legitimate data loading process into the repositories. Technically, this is achieved by a central, intermediate data distribution server that ensures this. A nationwide service is to be achieved, based on binding agreements with publishers and libraries and all terms of Alliance licenses implemented.Additionally, the project group will identify if the initial project approach is adoptable for other license models (such as licenses of the specialized information services (FID), consortia or even gold open access agreements). A second development stage will be the consideration of workflows for an automated delivery to subject related repositories and research information systems (CRIS).The national project consortium consists of two library networks (Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg (KOBV) and Bibliotheksverbund Bayern (BVB)), two universities (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin)), the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB) and a non-university research institution (GeoForschungs-Zentrum GFZ).
DFG Programme
Science Communication, Research Data, eResearch (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
