FAQs for Librarians

• Yes. The degruyter.com website is accessible for all member institutions in eduGAIN.
• Please make sure your federation metadata is up to date to make the SP available to your users.
• Since December 2020, our entity ID is www.degruyter.com/ssp

Please provide us with your Entity ID (at service@degruyter.com) if Shibboleth access should be added to your account.

Yes, institutional administrators can access the Librarian self-service area DG Data to access holdings information and usage reports. Please email service@degruyter.com with your request. You will then receive instructions on how to create a new administrator account and get access to DG Data.

DG Data is the self-service portal for librarians and institutional administrators.

In DG Data , the admins will find Holdings Information and Usage Reports for their institutions, as well as a link to The IP Registry to update your IP addresses.

If you want to add a link resolver to your bibliographical database subscriptions, please get in touch with us at service@degruyter.com

• COUNTER 4 and COUNTER 5 reports have been migrated into LibLynx.
• The usage for the previous platform is included in COUNTER 4 statistics for 2019 and 2020, as well as COUNTER 5 for 2020 to January 2021.
• The usage for the degruyter.com is available from February 2021 onwards in COUNTER 5 format.
• January 2021 has been merged in to give you the full year of usage.

Through DG Data, the new self-service portal for librarians.

In DG Data you will find holdings lists and usage reports in COUNTER format for your institution.

To get access DG Data for your institution, please get in touch with us at service@degruyter.com.

Please note that SUSHI access details have changed, so a new URL and API key will have to be set up at your end for the new platform.

• Some statistics were too large to integrate into the download form.
• Please check if you have a section for Legacy Reports Download at the bottom of the page – this is where you can find CSV files of the reports in question.

• COUNTER 4 statistics will be available until the end of 2021.
• After that, we will only offer COUNTER 5 statistics for 2020 and 2021.

• The new WAYFless URL structure is: https://connect.liblynx.com/wa...[CustomerEntityID]&target=[TargetURL].
• Previous WAYFless URLs will be redirected; please only use the new structure going forward.

• Yes, we provide open URL format links to discovery services via KBART files.
• These will continue to give access to licensed content.

• Yes, these links continue to lead through to our new platform.
• We also have a robust redirect in place for any URLs that may have changed so you are taken to the correct page.

No, Sciendo content and journals are now on a separate platform and are no longer searchable on degruyter.com.

• We do not have a timeframe yet, but we will share that information when we do.

• All Böhlau publications can be found on the website of Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht eLibrary.

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• The site requires the latest version of Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox as a browser.

In order to change or update your IPs, please register with The IP Registry. Benefits include:

• IPs will be updated in real-time from The IP Registry into the De Gruyter system.
• IPs will be validated upon input to reduce errors and access issues.
• The service is free for libraries.
• IPs are sent to other publishers where you may have licensed content, not just De Gruyter, with no need to contact all individually.
• The IP Registry does not share any personal data, so only your IPs are passed on to publisher systems.

If you want us to update your IPs for you, please contact our Technical Customer Service at service@degruyter.com

• De Gruyter’s customer service team will continue to assist you with any queries you may have.
• Please email service@degruyter.com and include links, screenshots or any further details that might help us to solve your query quickly.
• In case of problems with your access—especially if your institution is not recognized by our platform, please send us a screenshot of the following page: https://www.degruyter.com/login/_debug