From: Silke Davison <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 12:51:59 +0000

The OAPEN Foundation and Thoth Open Metadata are excited to announce the
signing of a new substantive partnership agreement.

Thoth Open Metadata <https://thoth.pub/> is a community-led non-profit
platform and service facilitating open metadata management and
dissemination workflows for Open Access (OA) books and book chapters. With
Thoth, publishers can easily create and distribute metadata in a variety of
standard formats such as MARC, ONIX, KBART, and JSON, in numerous variants
reflecting specific platforms’ requirements. Thoth’s platform and services
assist publishers in the creation, management and dissemination of fully
open metadata records for their titles, leading to improved, higher-quality
metadata that benefits the entire scholarly communication ecosystem. Thoth
also supports an integration of the data, which is released with a CC0
licence, with third-party applications through its open APIs, enabling
innovative new content and services to be developed.



The newly-signed agreement is the result of a long-standing and fruitful
collaboration between OAPEN <https://oapen.org/> <https://oapen.org/>and
Thoth, which had been established during the early phase of the
Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM
<https://www.copim.ac.uk/>) project (2019–23). Thoth’s subsequent formal
incorporation as a UK-based non-profit Community Interest Company in 2022
has opened up exciting ways to further that collaboration between the two
entities.

With the recent agreement, Thoth becomes an OAPEN intermediary facilitating
direct submission of OA books and corresponding metadata to OAPEN. This is
done on behalf of Thoth’s key stakeholder group of small and scholar-led
publishers that are using Thoth for easy management and dissemination of
their content and metadata. Those books submitted through Thoth will also
be listed on the Directory of Open Access Books <https://doabooks.org/>
 (DOAB).

Individual publishers using Thoth to submit their OA books to OAPEN will
benefit from a full waiver of operational submission fees, while the
submission process will be handled directly through Thoth. Teams at OAPEN
and Thoth are currently also exploring ways to further improve that
submission process by integrating automated steps in the submission of
metadata and content to OAPEN in the coming months.

If you are a publisher interested in learning more about Thoth’s
capabilities to improve your connections with existing as well as new
dissemination channels, and are seeking to open up your content and
corresponding metadata to the scholarly community, please do not hesitate
to contact Thoth’s Metadata and Publisher Outreach Specialist Hannah Hillen
via [log in to unmask]

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*Silke Davison*
Community Manager (Europe & The Americas)
OAPEN Foundation
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Stakeholder Report 2022
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