Open Access

Pascal-Nicolas Becker, Roland Bertelmann, Klaus Ceynowa, Jürgen Christof, Thomas Dierkes, Julia Alexandra Goltz-Fellgiebel, Matthias Groß, Regina Heidrich, Tobias Höhnow, Michael Kassube, Thorsten Koch, Monika Kuberek, Lilian Landes, Heinz Pampel, Markus Putnings, Beate Rusch, Hildegard Schäffler, Dagmar Schobert, Oliver Schwab, Jens Schwidder, Konstanze Söllner, Tonka Stoyanova, Paul Vierkant

• The project DeepGreen aims to realise better usage of green open access publication rights with regard to Alliance Licenses in Germany (https://www.nationallizenzen.de/open-access). Together with publishers who offer Alliance Licenses and authorized libraries, the project group intends to develop a prototype of a nearly fully automated workflow that covers the delivery of data from the publishers, including the article full texts, as well as the process of loading data into the institutional repositories of licensees. Further information about the project can be found within ZIB-Report 15-58, urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-56799. In order to become acquainted with publishers’ processes for exchanging documents and metadata, the project group developed a questionnaire for an online survey. The publishing of this questionnaire is intended to demonstrate relevant aspects of the issue (e. g. methods of data exchange, protocols and interfaces) and to foster reuse of valuable questionnaire elements. The XML-file can be reused as a template, the PDF-file reproduces the original survey layout.