Thoth Open Metadata

12 month contract
£500-£1500

Thoth Open Metadata is a metadata creation, management, and dissemination platform specifically tailored to tackle the problems of getting open access publications into the book supply chain. The platform provides publishers with a tool to gather all of the metadata needed to disseminate books, such as information on titles, authors, publication dates, and the like, as well as metadata specific to digital and open access books, such as persistent identifiers and file addresses.

Fees & tiers

Thoth Open Metadata offers a membership package with tiered pricing, as detailed below. For pricing in other countries, please contact info@openbookcollective.org

Tier structure

TIER

USA & AUS

CANADA

EU*

UK

Tier 1

10,000+ FTE

CRKN bands 11-13

Large org., high income country

Jisc bands 1-4

Tier 2

5,000-9,999 FTE

CRKN bands 7-10

Medium org., high income country

Jisc bands 5-6

Tier 3

0-4,999 FTE

CRKN bands 1-6

Small org., high income country / orgs. from middle-income countries

Jisc bands 7-10

*In the case of European institutions, tiering is determined by a combination of organisation size and the World Bank's classification of countries by income. Small organisations are defined as 0-4,999 FTE, medium organisations are defined as 5,000-9,999 FTE, and large organisations as 10,000+ FTE. 

Fees

TIER         

USD     

AUD      

CAD    

EUR       

GBP     

Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

1800

1200

600

2700

1800

900

2550

1700

850

1800

1200

600

1500

1000

500

Contract length

  • 12 months

Benefits

  • Access to high-quality open access book and chapter metadata in a variety of formats;

  • An annual report detailing activities, key financial information, and the contribution of the OBC to its revenue streams;

  • Acknowledgment of supporting libraries on the Thoth website;

  • The rights to use the Thoth logo in marketing activities;

  • Supporting the only open source, open access metadata management and dissemination platform that makes the entire open access publishing pipeline more sustainable in the long term;

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  • Thoth Open Metadata
  • 12 month contract
  • £500-£1500
  • Included in Open Book Collective Package, Service Providers Package
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Thoth Open Metadata

Thoth Open Metadata is a metadata creation, management, and dissemination platform specifically tailored to tackle the problems of getting open access publications into the book supply chain. The platform provides publishers with a tool to gather all of the metadata needed to disseminate books, such as information on titles, authors, publication dates, and the like, as well as metadata specific to digital and open access books, such as persistent identifiers and file addresses.

Fees & tiers

Thoth Open Metadata offers a membership package with tiered pricing, as detailed below. For pricing in other countries, please contact info@openbookcollective.org

Tier structure

TIER

USA & AUS

CANADA

EU*

UK

Tier 1

10,000+ FTE

CRKN bands 11-13

Large org., high income country

Jisc bands 1-4

Tier 2

5,000-9,999 FTE

CRKN bands 7-10

Medium org., high income country

Jisc bands 5-6

Tier 3

0-4,999 FTE

CRKN bands 1-6

Small org., high income country / orgs. from middle-income countries

Jisc bands 7-10

*In the case of European institutions, tiering is determined by a combination of organisation size and the World Bank's classification of countries by income. Small organisations are defined as 0-4,999 FTE, medium organisations are defined as 5,000-9,999 FTE, and large organisations as 10,000+ FTE. 

Fees

TIER         

USD     

AUD      

CAD    

EUR       

GBP     

Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

1800

1200

600

2700

1800

900

2550

1700

850

1800

1200

600

1500

1000

500

Contract length

  • 12 months

Benefits

  • Access to high-quality open access book and chapter metadata in a variety of formats;

  • An annual report detailing activities, key financial information, and the contribution of the OBC to its revenue streams;

  • Acknowledgment of supporting libraries on the Thoth website;

  • The rights to use the Thoth logo in marketing activities;

  • Supporting the only open source, open access metadata management and dissemination platform that makes the entire open access publishing pipeline more sustainable in the long term;

Thoth Open Metadata icon.
  • Thoth Open Metadata
  • 12 month contract
  • £500-£1500
  • Included in Open Book Collective Package, Service Providers Package
Add to Quote

Highlights

Activities

Delivering a metadata management and dissemination platform tailored to tackle the problems of getting open access publications into the book supply chain

Governance

A not for profit Community Interest Company Limited by Guarantee, with members having overall control over its activities

Values

Harnessing collaboration to allow the creation, mashup, management, and export of high-quality open metadata without restrictions

Open source

Thoth is Open Source software that produces open (CC-0) metadata, and it includes an open API for anyone interested in our data to use