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	USA	AUS	CANADA	EU	UK
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;