Tom Mosterd - DOAB & OAPEN Rupert Gatti - Thoth, COPIM and Open Book Publishers The transition to open access for scholarly content such as books and journals enables research to be widely and freely available to readers worldwide. As publishers, funders, libraries and researchers are increasingly engaged in making scholarly books available open access (OA), how do these OA versions find their way through the supply chain for scholarly books? Which, for a large part, is built around print and digital (non-OA) books. As part of this session we will hear from the OAPEN & Thoth team – two open metadata service providers that are part of the Open Book Collective and work together to increase discoverability for open access books. Jointly, we’ll take a closer look at the OA ebook supply chain and how these solutions contribute to bringing OA books to their readers, the challenges along the way and how we can ensure, collectively, that OA books are as (or more) discoverable compared to their closed counterparts.

1. (in)discoverability of OA books, taking action to
improve the OA eBook supply chain / streamlining
monograph metadata supply with BDS

2. Agenda
• Brief overview of open access books
today
• OA eBook Supply Chain and its
challenges
• Three perspectives of service providers
engaging with OA books
• Perspective 1: Thoth
• Perspective 2: DOAB & OAPEN
• Q&A
• Perspective 3: BDS
• Q&A

3. A different trajectory than for
journals
Growing uptake of OA books, yet
smaller base
Moving forward: publishers,
libraries and funders
New policies & mandates
• UKRI
• European Commission
(Horizon Europe)
• cOAlition-S
Open access books in 2023

4. Changing the ebook supply chain: handling both non-OA and OA
books
Challenges:
1. Certain, traditional parts, of the supply chain are built for paid
access and have difficulties adjusting still to free content
2. Handling the status change from an existing title from non-OA
to OA
3. Ensuring this information and metadata makes it through the
supply chain
Unchanged: metadata moving through this supply chain, and
many ways for OA books to reach their readers
A role for various supply chain actors to ensure quality metadata
and contributing to the discoverability of OA books
Read the full report:
Clarke, Michael, & Ricci, Laura. (2021). OA Books Supply Chain Mapping Report.
Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4681725
An evolving supply chain

5. How are different service
providers helping improve
OA book discoverability?
▪ Thoth – Starting at the source:
working with publishers
▪ DOAB-OAPEN – Bridge between
publishers, libraries & system
providers
▪ BDS Academic & Public Library
license – Simple single interface for
libraries
Directory of Open Access Books – global
indexing service of over 64,000 peer-reviewed
OA books from more than 650 publishers
OAPEN Library – hosting, distributing, and
preserving 26,000+ peer-reviewed OA books
from 400+ publishers
Thoth – Providing OA book publishers with
a metadata creation, management, and
dissemination platform.
BDS – aggregates, curates and delivers
metadata relating to print, e-books & other
formats

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Introducing Thoth:
Open Metadata Manager &
Distribution Service for OA Books
Funded by
Rupert Gatti

7. https://thoth.pub Non-profit CIC

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11. Data Ingest: publisher generated metadata
User Interface
API
ONIX
Bulk uploads

12. Data Output: standardised formats
ONIX
CSV
KBART
JSON
BibTex
CrossRef XML
MARC

13. Data Output: standardised formats
ONIX (multiple)
CSV
KBART
JSON
BibTex
CrossRef XML
MARC

14. ONIX (multiple)
CSV
KBART
JSON
BibTex
CrossRef XML
MARC
Data Output: standardised formats

15. ONIX (multiple)
CSV
KBART
JSON
BibTex
CrossRef XML
MARC
Data Output: standardised formats

16. ONIX (multiple)
CSV
KBART
JSON
BibTex
CrossRef XML
MARC
DOI Deposits
Data Output: standardised formats

17. ONIX (multiple)
CSV
KBART
JSON
BibTex
CrossRef XML
MARC 21/XML
DOI Deposits
Data Output: standardised formats

18. ONIX (multiple)
CSV
KBART
JSON
BibTex
CrossRef XML
MARC 21/XML
DOI Deposits
Data Output: standardised formats

19. Data Output: Open API
Publisher websites
Catalogues
Platforms
Customised data searches/outputs
Connect with other databases
Repository deposits (data & content)

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24. Distribution Services:
combining metadata and content
(Semi)automated processes for distributing
metadata and content on behalf of publishers
Creation of repository/archiving network

25. Ingest Export
Free
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• API
• UI
• ONIX
• GraphQL API
• Export API
Metadata Services
• Formatting
• Backlist Ingest
• Validation/Enhancement
Distribution Services
• Curated (meta)data and
book delivery
• Archiving/Preservation
• Support/Training

26. Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)
Global index of peer-reviewed open access books
64,000+ OA books indexed
650+ OA book publishers
Integrated into 1,100+ libraries globally
OAPEN Library
Hosting, distribution and preservation for 26,000+
peer-reviewed OA books
450+ publishers
2022: Downloads from 8,000+ organisations

29. Building community-owned, open systems and
infrastructures to enable open access books to flourish
OpenBookCollective (OBC) – Group of publishers,
publishing service providers, and research libraries.
Service Providers: Thoth, DOAB & OAPEN
We invite you to come meet us and learn more about
COPIM at UKSG Stand 33! Or get in touch;
COPIM & Thoth - Rupert Gatti, info@thoth.pub
DOAB & OAPEN – Tom Mosterd, t.mosterd@oapen.org
Community-led Open Publication
Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)