Open Access, Open Metadata, Open Archiving: How to Liberate Metadata Flows across the OA Books Landscape

With open access quickly becoming the standard mode of publishing scholarly publications, including monographs and edited collections, the integration of fully open and high-quality metadata into book production workflows, library cataloging systems, and long-term preservation solutions is gaining importance and urgency.

The proposed poster will showcase metadata workflows of a variety of small and medium-sized scholar-led and university and library publishers from across the globe through the usage of Thoth Open Metadata, a non-profit open source platform providing innovative metadata management, hosting, and distribution solutions tailored to tackle the problem(s) of getting Open Access works into the wider book supply chain, ensuring their long-term sustainability.

We will show how Thoth enables publishers to create fully open data in multiple industry-standard formats, including ONIX (2.1, 3.0, 3.1) MARC21, MARCXML, encouraging uptake of good metadata practice e.g. by integrating PIDs and controlled vocabularies as well as adhering to new legislative reporting regulations such as the European Accessibility Act, the EU Deforestation Regulation, and the EU General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR). The resulting metadata is then automatically released into the public domain under a CC0 dedication, to facilitate easy re-use by e.g. libraries.

We will also highlight how Thoth’s dissemination workflows can then deliver a publisher’s metadata and content to a variety of platforms including, but not limited to, OAPEN, DOAB, JSTOR*, EBSCO, ProQuest, Project MUSE*, and many more; how DOIs get auto-registered with Crossref for books and chapters alike; and how publications are archived in open repositories such as the Internet Archive and Zenodo through the Thoth Open Archiving Network - a novel, auditable alternative to existing preservation solutions to ensure sustainable and transparent long-term archiving of publishers' valuable contributions to the scholarly record.