Questionnaire for effective exchange of bibliographic metadata – current status of publishing houses

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.