👋🏽 Thoth is an open metadata management and dissemination platform for #OAbooks. Developed under the remit of @copim.bsky.social, we're now a non-profit CIC registered in the UK.
🐘 https://hcommons.social/@Thoth_metadata
🕸: https://thoth.pub
Thoth Open Metadata
[WEBINAR] Open Book Collective, Open Journals Collective, and Thoth: Collaborating for a sustainable Diamond OA future (in Germany & other German-language contexts) 🔮
📆 11 June 2026
🕔️ 11:00-12:00 CEST
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#DiamondOA #OpenAccess #OA
The publishing supply chain wasn’t built for #OpenAccess books 📚
Can a nonprofit platform help?
Find out more about @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social and how they supports #OA publishing through metadata management and distribution 🔗
Good metadata = discoverable research. On June 17, we're hosting a #webinar on our Participation Reports tool. See how yours is doing. 12:00 PM UTC. https://crossref.zoom.us/webinar/register/2617793981171/WN_g9GPBJ3zRX658EE43408NA
#openscience #scholarlypublishing
Half of scholarly research remains behind paywalls. In a new Resource Review, Katina Magazine takes a look at Thoth and how our open-source, community-led infrastructure helps OA publishers improve discoverability and distribution of scholarly works. Read it here: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
Half of scholarly research remains behind paywalls. In a new Resource Review, Katina Magazine takes a look at Thoth and how our open-source, community-led infrastructure helps OA publishers improve discoverability and distribution of scholarly works. Read it here: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
Our thanks to our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social for taking part in this #accessibility interview with @copim.bsky.social. Well worth a read for anyone working on this (or wondering how to begin) and what resources are available.
Since Nov 2024, all of our frontlist books are “born accessible”.
Of the 30 finalists, 4 come from OBC presses - 3 from @openbookpublish.bsky.social, & 1 from @lsepress.bsky.social. It's a mark of the quality small, not-for-profit, scholar- & institution-led presses can produce, more than holding their own alongside the largest university presses in the US and UK!
If you haven't looked at #CopimCompass for a while, there's a lot of new content there
In particular, check out Books 9 & 12
Open Book Accessibility 👉 compass.copim.pub/books/09-ope...
Archiving and Preservation 👉 compass.copim.pub/books/12-arc...
📝 The latest blog post in our 'Born Open: Rethinking Prestige in Scholarly Book Publishing' comes from Netherlands University Presses (NUPs), an association of library-based publishers working across institutions.
Read all about them in this post👉 openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2026/06/11/p...
Open Book Collective, Open Journals Collective, and Thoth: Collaborating for a sustainable Diamond OA future
'From mission to market: a case study and analysis of the commercialisation of institutional publishing' by @alittleroad.bsky.social, @scholtom.bsky.social, @kirahopkins.bsky.social, @anna-r-hughes.bsky.social & I: doi.org/10.36399/cmn...
🗣️ Accessibility Conversations: @uolpress.bsky.social
[email protected] shares the main drivers on their #Accessibility journey
Legal compliance with the European Accessibility Act? OR ...
Commitment to ensure their books are as accessible to as many as possible
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Announcing the 2026 finalists for ACLS Open Access Book Prizes + Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards!
Five books in six categories—anthropology, environmental humanities, history, literary/media studies, multimodal, and political science—advance to the final round of $50k prizes: bit.ly/43rZPDD
Kevin Sanders
🚨 NEW RESOURCES!
Head over to #CopimCompass to discover new content on the Knowledge Bases and Library Success Stories sections 🧭
Where can I publish a book open access without (necessarily) paying a fee? 👉 buff.ly/z79au3r
Stories of Open 👉 buff.ly/BwdH7sO
Thoth is an open-source metadata management and dissemination platform focused on open access books. Here’s what libraries should know about it.
Half of scholarly research remains behind paywalls. In a new Resource Review, Katina Magazine takes a look at Thoth and how our open-source, community-led infrastructure helps OA publishers improve discoverability and distribution of scholarly works. Read it here: katinamagazine.org/content/arti...
American Council of Learned Societies
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Thoth is an open-source metadata management and dissemination platform focused on open access books. Here’s what libraries should know about it.
