We are pleased to welcome two new repositories as DeepGreen participants since the end of January. The University of Erfurt will now use our service for the Digital Library of Thuringia. The Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg is also participating in DeepGreen with the institutional repository TUBAFpublication as part of the Saxon document and publication server Qucosa.
We are excited to report expansions in the area of publishing cooperations and repositories.
In October, DeepGreen concluded a new publisher-cooperation agreement with the American Chemical Society (ACS). The tests for the technical integration have started, so that the first data deliveries are expected to begin in early 2024.
In the area of repositories, we are happy to welcome data_UMR, the institutional repository of Philipps University Marburg, and MONARCH-Quocosa, the institutional repository of Chemnitz University of Technology, as new participants in DeepGreen.
On 06.11.23 another DeepGreen consultation took place for our participating repositories. After a presentation of current developments in DeepGreen (publishing cooperation with Copernicus, optimization of metadata mapping, DeepGreen & Elsevier DEAL), we reviewed the recent Open Access Days 2023, which took place in Berlin in September. In reviewing the discussions at this conference, we discussed possible service extensions to DeepGreen, such as metadata delivery without full-text and retrieval of individual full-texts via DOI matching. We also discussed a poster on the extension of the EZB interface, which was also presented at the Open Access Days. As a result, we identified the integration of the ROR ID in the EZB metadata as a priority for DeepGreen, as this would greatly facilitate institutional attribution. Other topics discussed were the handling of duplicates and error messages in the SWORD interface in DSpace. All participating repositories are explicitly invited to participate in this recurring exchange format.
As in June 2022 at the Library Congress in Leipzig, a DeepGreen users’ meeting was held again this year on May 23., this time as part of the 111. BiblioCon in Hannover. The event was well attended with about 30 participants. In addition to representatives of the repositories cooperating with DeepGreen, curious external visitors were also present.
DeepGreen staff members Tim Raab (BSB München) and Stefan Lohrum (KOBV) reported on current developments in the area of publisher cooperations, as well as on technical innovations such as metadata mapping and delivery of the DEAL-Springer data.
As a guest, Thorsten Wetzenstein from the University Library of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel gave a keynote presentation entitled “Deepgreen – an interface-driven approach to data enrichment and analysis: conception of a workflow with modules in RStudio”. The talk presented approaches to bibliometric analysis of the data provided by DeepGreen using the Bibliometrix tool.
The slides of both presentations will be available on the BIB-OPUS publication server soon.
The meeting, which was held under the motto of exchange and development, concluded with a speed dating session for the DeepGreen participants, which was intended to serve the exchange of experiences and networking. There were 12 people involved in this interactive format.
We are very pleased with the participation and hope to see you again soon in a year’s time.