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- File:Symbol opinion vote.svg Comment: We need independent secondary sources. Proper independent secondary sources. Projects funded to promote projects like yours are not independent. Also, have you read WP:COI? Stuartyeates (talk) 10:03, 9 August 2025 (UTC)
- File:Symbol opinion vote.svg Comment: A lot of this was moved here from COPIM. — Diannaa (talk) 16:50, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
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 2025.[3]
Business model
[edit | edit source]Initially 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. Added-value metadata dissemination, content as well as website/catalogue hosting, and usage statistics services are available through the Thoth Plus and Thoth Hosting programmes for a nominal 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
[edit | edit source]Thoth 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, and is a co-signatory of the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information.
Thoth participates in the Open Book Futures project[9] and collaborates with platforms and institutions such as the Public Knowledge Project's Open Monographs Press, the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI), OAPEN, and SciELO Books to enhance the integration of open metadata (incl. usage data) for open access books across the academic publishing landscape.
Thoth Open Archiving Network (TOAN)
[edit | edit source]Utilising Thoth Open Metadata's open data and workflows, TOAN aims to address preservation issues faced particularly by small academic publishers[10] by providing automated processes to archive these publishers' publications in repositories such as the Internet Archive, Zenodo, DSpace, and Figshare.[11]
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