A workshop organised by the Open Infrastructures for OA Books Working Group, OA Books SIG, bringing together members of the Slovenian National Node with open infrastructures, Thoth Open Metadata, the OAPEN Foundation, the Directory of Open Access Books, and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP).
\nThree Slovenian university presses produce ca. 70% of the country’s scientific open access (OA) monographs, yet face persistent structural challenges in metadata management, dissemination, and international visibility. This workshop proposes a practical showcase of open collaboration between Slovenian publishers and four open not-for-profit infrastructures – Thoth Open Metadata, the OAPEN Foundation, the Directory of Open Access Books, and the Public Knowledge Project’s Open Monographs Press (OMP) – to address these needs end-to-end.
\nFocusing on academic publishing houses of three Slovenian educational and research institutions (ZRC SAZU, University of Ljubljana, and University of Maribor) that use OMP to host a variety of long-form outputs, the session will demonstrate how locally produced, peer-reviewed open access books can move efficiently “from OMP to DOAB.” Participants will explore workflows for improving metadata quality and interoperability, and consider aspects such as the integration of PIDs (e.g., DOI, ORCID, ROR), the facilitation of multilingual metadata outputs, the management of controlled subject classification schemas (e.g., UDC, BIC, BISAC, Thema), and a streamlined dissemination into OAPEN and DOAB via the open-source and freely-available Thoth metadata management platform. The workshop will highlight the Thoth–OMP plugin as a shared, open solution for reducing spreadsheet- and email-based workflows and aligning OMP metadata with downstream aggregator requirements via the Thoth platform, alongside OAPEN’s perspective on discovery and funder-based collection building.
\nWe will also discuss the quality of metadata as a key element in supporting the discoverability and reuse of open access books and chapters and outline how, in this context, a collaborative effort between publishers, infrastructure providers, and users can effectively create and utilise open resources.
\nAimed at publishers, librarians, and infrastructure providers interested in open publishing of long-form scholarly outputs, the session proposes to sketch out a replicable model of cross-infrastructure collaboration, positioning Slovenian publishers more strongly within European OA networks such as OPERAS, while contributing a concrete case study that has emerged out of the Open Infrastructures Working Group, part of the OPERAS OA Books SIG.
\nParticipants are invited to discuss the showcase’s potential applicability to other national and regional settings. We would also like to invite feedback on other aspects pertaining to the discoverability of non-peer-reviewed long-form outputs that can be managed through the Thoth platform and would currently not be eligible for submission to DOAB, such as open textbooks, musical notations, or conference proceedings.
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Note: An online version of the slidedeck is available here.
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\nCopim (originally Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) is an international partnership and community of researchers, universities, librarians, open access book publishers and infrastructure providers. It is building community-owned, open systems and infrastructures to enable open access book publishing to flourish.
\nThe landscape of open access book publishing stands at a crossroads: one avenue leads to the monopolisation of open access book publishing by commercial publishers and for-profit intermediaries while the other opens up a more diverse, scholar-led, community-owned, and not-for-profit publishing ecosystem.
\nCopim is a community dedicated towards supporting these second sets of possibility. It does so by delivering major improvements in the infrastructures used by open access book publishers and those publishers making a transition to open access books. COPIM's innovations will enable more productive collaborations between people (including librarians, publishers, and researchers) in the open access landscape and expand opportunities to develop the skills necessary to run open access publishing operations.
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\nCommunity-led Open Publishing Infrastructures for Monographs is supported by the Research England Development (RED) Fund, and Arcadia.
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