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Thoth Open Metadata (for suggested spelling, see Thoth) is an open-source platform for managing and distributing metadata for academic books and chapters, to enable small to medium-sized academic publishers that release books and chapters in open access to increase findability of their scholarly titles.
All metadata created via Thoth are available via dedicated APIs, and auto-generated in various industry-standard formats incl. MARC21, MARC21XML, KBART, ONIX for Books, and JSON,[1] and are released openly under a CC0 dedication to enable free and unrestricted re-use.[2]
Thoth has received a nomination for the 2025 ALPSP Award for Innovation in Scholarly Publishing.[3]
Business model
editInitially developed as part of the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project, Thoth has subsequently been registered as an independent Community Interest Company in the UK in 2022.[4]
Thoth Open Metadata operates on a nonprofit model, offering self-service use of its metadata management platform, its APIs, and the multiple data export formats to publishers for free. Additional metadata and content dissemination, website & catalogue hosting, and usage statistics services are available through the dedicated service packages for an annual fee.[5]
Academic Libraries can volunteer to support the infrastructure financially through a membership programme facilitated by the Open Book Collective.[6] Contributions by participating libraries are supporting Thoth's provision of substantial discounts (up to full waivers) of the nominal fees levied to cover the work undertaken as part of its dissemination services for publishers based in regions other than the US, UK, and Europe.
Partnerships and collaborations
editThoth is a member of various scholary communication infrastructures and networks such as Crossref, the OPERAS network,[7] the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) Trusted Partner Network[8], Invest in Open Infrastructure's InfraFinder, OASPA, the Association of European University Presses (AEUP), and the European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) registry[9], and is a co-signatory of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information. In February 2026, Thoth has become an official adopter of the Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure (POSI)[10].
Thoth collaborates with platforms and institutions such as the Public Knowledge Project's Open Monographs Press, OAPEN, Pressbooks, the African Platform for Open Scholarship (APOS), and SciELO Livros[11] to enhance the integration of open metadata (incl. usage data) for open access books across the academic publishing landscape.
Thoth Open Archiving Network (TOAN)
editUtilising Thoth Open Metadata's open data and workflows, TOAN aims to address preservation issues faced particularly by small academic publishers[12] by providing automated processes to archive these publishers' publications in repositories such as the Internet Archive, and Zenodo.[13]
References
edit- ↑ Snow, Cason (2026-06-02). "The Publishing Supply Chain Wasn't Built for Open Access Books. Can a Nonprofit Platform Help?". Katina. doi:10.1146/katina-060226-1.
- ↑ Estelle, Lorraine; Jago, Dave; Jones, Ruth; Laakso, Mikael; Snijder, Ronald; Wise, Alicia (2025-02-10). Supporting learned society, subject association, and smaller specialist publishers to transition to open access book publishing (SPA OPS 4.0 project) (Report). doi:10.5281/zenodo.14679068. Retrieved 2025-02-21.
- ↑ "ALPSP Award Submissions & Nominations 2025 - ALPSP". www.alpsp.org. Retrieved 2025-08-08.
- ↑ "THOTH OPEN METADATA COMMUNITY INTEREST COMPANY overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk.
- ↑ Imming, Melanie; Uyens, Bjorn (2025-04-28). Thoth Open Metadata: Copim Open Book Futures Mid-Term Review (Report). doi:10.5281/zenodo.15131150.
- ↑ "Thoth Open Metadata - Summary". openbookcollective.org. Open Book Collective. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
- ↑ Schulte, Judith (2023-09-26). "OPERAS welcomes Thoth". OPERAS. doi:10.58079/vl08. Retrieved 2024-02-08.
- ↑ Davidson, Silke. "JSTOR, African Platform for Open Scholarship (APOS), Fulcrum, and Thoth Open Metadata join DOAB Trusted Platform Network". doabooks.org. Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ↑ "Thoth Open Metadata | EDCH Registry". registry.edch.eu. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
- ↑ "POSI Adopters". The Principles of Open Scholarly Infrastructure. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
- ↑ "Thoth Open Metadata. Plataforma de metadatos en abierto sin ánimo de lucro | UNE en Diamante". Unión de Editoriales Universitarias Españolas (in Spanish). Retrieved 2026-06-04.
- ↑ Laakso, Mikael (2023-01-01). "Open access books through open data sources: assessing prevalence, providers, and preservation". Journal of Documentation. 79 (7): 157–177. doi:10.1108/JD-02-2023-0016. ISSN 0022-0418.
- ↑ Cole, Gareth; Barnes, Miranda; Steiner, Tobias (14 September 2023). "Thoth Archiving Network: Supporting Small and Scholar-led Publishers with Repository-Led Preservation of OA Books". Septentrio Conference Series (1). doi:10.7557/5.7140. ISSN 2387-3086.
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