Since 2011 so-called Alliance licenses funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) include an open access component which allows authors to make their articles, after a shortened embargo period, publicly available through their institutional or subject-based repositories. If the institution negotiated the license, she acts as a representative of the author and therefore with equal rights. However, very few institutions use this opportunity due to the high effort associated with manually researching the articles in question and adding them to the repositories. DeepGreen aims to change that. Funded by DFG, DeepGreen develops an automated workflow to transfer scholarly publications from publishers to open access repositories. During a first funding period (2016-2017) a technical solution for a data router was developed. Publishers deposit data files (metadata and full text) and DeepGreen is matching them to authorized repositories using affiliations included in the publishers metadata. During a second funding phase, which started in August 2018, other licensing models will be examined and in summer 2019 DeepGreen will see a beta launch with a selection of publishers and repositories. DeepGreen increases the percentage of open access publications which makes it an active player in the field of open access transformation and open science.