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New Functional Enhancements for Administration

At the end of December 2022, two new functional enhancements were added to the DeepGreen production system. They will facilitate the work of the DeepGreen employees and are not visible to users.

The first function will simplify license management. From now on, it is possible for the administrators to enter and manage the license and participant lists in the graphical interface of the DeepGreen router. A history function makes it now possible to document the different versions of the license and subscriber lists and to track the activity of the license lists.

The second function is a search function for notifications, which has also been implemented in the graphical user interface of the DeepGreen router. The DeepGreen administrators can now trace processed articles and find out whether an article was indeed delivered by the publisher.

Happy Holidays and a healthy New Year 2023!

The year 2022 is rapidly coming to an end. We would like to thank ten publishers, 74 institutional repositories, and six subject repositories for their cooperation and wish all our partners happy holidays and a healthy new year 2023.

The past year has brought us a bit more social interaction again. Nevertheless, some digital aspects remained, which enabled us to quickly exchange information with our cooperation partners all over the world. Thank you for your continuous support.

We are looking forward to the coming year with all its small and big challenges and are sure that we will manage them together with you.

First DeepGreen users’ meeting at the 8th Library Congress 2022 in Leipzig

The first DeepGreen users’ meeting took place at the 8th Library Congress in Leipzig on 2 June 2022. The topic of the workshop was the long-term future perspective of DeepGreen and 15 people discussed different possibilities for the long-term development of the service together with the DeepGreen team.
Various options were presented in several input presentations. An expansion of the available content in the direction of Diamond OA, Subscribe to Open, monographs, Open Educational Resources or research data was discussed, also cooperation possibilities with other projects such as OA-Switchboard, ChronosHub, OA-STRUKTKOMM or ROR.
After the input presentations, the participants discussed and prioritised the presented points again in two groups.
The result (see photo) clearly shows that DeepGreen should continue to follow the path that the service has already taken in the long term. The top priority is still the green content of consortial licence agreements. Of interest is the expansion of content in the direction of monographs, conference papers and other OA models. Both groups emphasise the urgent need to prioritise deliveries and fear a flooding of repositories if content is expanded too much, for example in the direction of research data or Open Educational Resources.

The exchange with the users was productive and very enriching. We thank everyone for their participation.

Distinction between green and golden content now also possible with DeepGreen

Earlier this week, the next DeepGreen feature update was added to the production system. We are very pleased that with the new update DeepGreen is now able to distinguish between gold and green content within a journal. Previously, only a distinction at journal level was possible. S. Karger will be the first publisher to use this new feature. In addition to the content of the national licence and the pure gold OA journals, the gold and green content of the transformation contract will be available from Karger.

In addition, another SWORD feature is included in the new update. From now on, articles can be resent via SWORD using a button in the Routing History. In the routing history there is now an additional column “Deposit details”. In addition to the “Request deposit” button, which can be used to resend items via SWORD, this column contains information on the dispatch status of the respective item, for example, how often the item has already been sent, when it was last sent and what the current status is. It is also possible to send several items at once: Via the button “Select all on this page”, all articles on one page of the routing history can be selected and sent again via the button “Deposit selected notifications”.

The deposit logs, which were added to the “Manage SWORD Status” area with the last DeepGreen update, have also been expanded with this update (accessible via the View logs from last deposit button). Here you can now view not only the logs from the last deposit, but also from all previous deposits. 

You can find a screencast on this topic on our website:
https://info.oa-deepgreen.de/hilfe/#Screencasts

New Year – New DeepGreen website!

In line with the new year, we are pleased to present the new DeepGreen website.
From now on, publishers as well as repositories will find all information here in one place.
All the new features are explained in the following screencast (in german).
The DeepGreen team wishes you a lot of fun exploring.

SWORD feature implemented in repositories

Earlier this week, the next DeepGreen software update was rolled out to the production system. With this update, new SWORD status management options were integrated into the repository accounts. Repository operators can now view the status of their SWORD interface in their account and list which articles were successfully delivered to their repository with the last delivery or which articles had an error. For those articles that were not delivered, they can view the error message that their repository returned to DeepGreen. In addition, repository operators can now independently activate and deactivate their SWORD interface in DeepGreen.

You can now find a screencast on this topic on our website:
https://info.oa-deepgreen.de/hilfe/#Screencasts

SWORD logging has been improved and expanded overall, so that DeepGreen administration can now better support troubleshooting.

Furthermore, the delivery method from DeepGreen to SWORD has been made configurable. Repository operators can now set in their account whether the articles (metadata, full texts and possibly additional materials) should be sent as one zip file or as individual files. We recommend “Single ZIP File” as the default setting.

A whole range of other bug fixes and change requests have been taken into account in this update:

  • The embargo date is now displayed correctly and in a separate column in the routing history of the repository accounts.
  • The display of publisher information has been corrected (if no publisher is specified in the metadata, the publisher field in the routing history is now left blank)
  • Eprints repositories can be supplied via SWORD
  • A new column for institutional identifiers has been added to the affiliation file.
  • The routing history in the repository accounts can now be sorted by different criteria

DeepGreen updates to Python 3 and Elastic Search 7 completed

Mid August, two important updates for DeepGreen were completed and installed in the productive system. DeepGreen now runs on Python 3.8 and Elastic Search 7.10. This has stabilised DeepGreen for live operation and made it future-proof.  

In addition to these two updates, two new features have also been introduced for DeepGreen. From now on, repositories have the option to choose which publisher content they want to obtain by selecting or deselecting certain licences in their account. This feature simultaneously gives repositories more transparency about which licences they are registered for in DeepGreen. DeepGreen obtains the licence information from the Electronic Journals Library (EZB). Furthermore, the function for suspending affiliation matching, which is used in the integration of subject repositories, has been stabilised and integrated into the user interface of the administration.

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EconStor now receives Wiley articles via open access data hub DeepGreen

Thanks to the new cooperation between DeepGreen and the ZBW – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft , scientific articles from the Wiley publishing house are now automatically co-published in the economics repository EconStor. Only articles relevant to the subject from selected journals from the Wiley-DEAL contract are added.

“EconStor makes an important contribution to making scientific articles accessible to a broad readership. The inclusion of relevant articles published under our contract with Projekt DEAL increases their visibility. Following the successful launch of our partnership with DeepGreen in September 2020, we are pleased to support the open access transformation in Germany with another initiative,” said Dr. Guido F. Herrmann, Managing Director and Vice President, Wiley-VCH GmbH.

So far, beyond DeepGreen, there is no other data hub in Europe that has managed to expand the scope of its data buyers beyond institutional repositories. EconStor is one of three subject repositories to benefit from DeepGreen.

The integration of subject repositories offers benefits all parties involved – publishers gain more reach for their publications, authors gain more visibility, and users increase the share of freely available articles in their discipline.

Olaf Siegert, Head of the Department of Publication Services at the ZBW, emphasizes: “We are pleased that subject-relevant articles from the Wiley-DEAL are now also made available via EconStor. This further highlights the role of repositories as publication venues for scientific and scholarly institutions in ensuring the Open Access transformation. As a specialist repository, we in particular already have a strong network in economic research and are used by many institutions and authors to disseminate their research results. The articles from transformation contracts are an important building block in the further development. It’s great that DeepGreen is actively supporting us here.”

DeepGreen was developed as part of a five-year DFG project with the aim of automatically delivering full texts and metadata of scientific and scholarly publications to institutional and subject-specific OA repositories, thereby promoting OA transformation in Germany. The project consortium consisted of the Kooperativen Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg, the Bavarian State Library, the University Library of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, the University Library of the Technical University Berlin, the Helmholtz Open Science Office of the Helmholtz Association, and the Bibliotheksverbund Bayern. After an extended test phase, DeepGreen will start pilot operations in June 2021 with eight publishers, 60 institutional repositories and three subject-based repositories. In two years, the organizational-legal foundations for the regular operation of the national open access service are to be laid.

The integration of subject repositories marks another milestone in the DeepGreen project.

“We are pleased about the integration of EconStor. The delivery of data to subject-specific Open Access repositories is a success for DeepGreen and demonstrates the relevance of repositories in the Open Access transformation,” says Roland Bertelmann, head of the Helmholtz Open Science Office of the Helmholtz Association, which is responsible for the relevant work package as a project partner in DeepGreen.