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September 9, 2026: Thoth Open Metadata nomination presentation for the Award for Innovation in Scholarly Publishing 2026, presented by Hannah Hillen and Toby Steiner at the ALPSP Annual Conference and Awards 2026. Presentation slides.
July 1, 2026: “LIBERating Metadata Flows to Improve Findability of European Open Textbooks and Exploring Tools to Improve Advocacy and Adoption.” Presentation by Toby Steiner at LIBER 2026. Presentation slides.
June 22, 2026: “Open Metadata, Open Ecosystems: Collaborations between university and library publishers and open infrastructures to boost discoverability of open (text)books.” Presentation by Toby Steiner at the Open Education Conference 2026. Presentation slides.
June 11, 2026: “Open Book Collective, Open Journals Collective, and Thoth: Collaborating for a sustainable Diamond OA future.” Webinar contribution by Toby Steiner, Caroline Ball and Tom Shaw for oa.talk. Presentation slides.
June 3, 2026: “Thothally Fresh – Launching Thoth 1.0.” Webinar presented by Hannah Hillen and Toby Steiner. Event page, presentation slides, and recording.
May 20, 2026: “From OMP to DOAB, via Thoth: Open Collaboration to Amplify Slovenian OA Books.” Workshop by Toby Steiner and Rupert Gatti at the OPERAS 2026 & SCIROS Conference. Workshop slides and blog post.
May 20, 2026: Keynote presentation by Joe Deville at the CIVICA Open Science Conference 2026. Presentation slides and recording.
April 28–30, 2026: “Open data, open access, open source: Liberating metadata for OA books and chapters.” Presentation by Toby Steiner at the HMC Conference – The Hub for Excellence in Metadata Research. Presentation slides.
March 30–April 1, 2026: “Open Access, Open Metadata, Open Archiving: How to Liberate Metadata Flows across the OA Books Landscape.” Poster presented by Rupert Gatti at the UKSG 49th Annual Conference and Exhibition. Poster.
March 25–27, 2026: “Coordinating library strategies to support Diamond OA publishing.” Solution Room contribution by Rupert Gatti and Anna Hughes at the RLUK26 Virtual Conference.
March 11–13, 2026: “Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Metadata Challenges & Open Community Solutions for Open Access Books.” Conference presentation by Hannah Hillen and Rupert Gatti at the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group Conference 2026: #MetaFutures. Presentation slides.
March 11–13, 2026: “Interactive: Creating an Open Archiving Solution for Open Access Publications.” Interactive conference session by Gareth Cole and Rupert Gatti at the CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group Conference 2026: #MetaFutures. Presentation slides.
March 11, 2026: “Benefits and Barriers: Open Metadata for Books in Latin America.” Webinar contribution by Amanda Ramalho and Arturo Garduño-Magaña, organised by the Open Book Collective. Event page and presentation slides.
February 27, 2026: “Metadata, dissemination challenges & open community solutions for open access books.” Panel chaired by Toby Steiner, with Emma Booth, Harrison Inefuku and Édgar García Valencia, at Copim Conference 2026. Presentation slides and conference recording.
February 26, 2026: “Thothally Fresh – Launching Thoth 1.0.” Presentation by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and the wider Thoth team at Copim Conference 2026. Conference recording.
January 27, 2026: “The Open Book Futures Project: what are we doing and why?” Presentation by Gareth Cole and Rupert Gatti at the Digital Preservation Coalition event Preserving eBooks: where are we now?. Presentation slides.
January 13, 2026: “Archiving and preservation for open access monographs.” Seminar presentation by Rupert Gatti, Gareth Cole and Holly Turpin for the Bodleian Libraries Open Scholarship seminar series. Presentation slides.
November 19, 2025: “Moving beyond closed silos: liberating workflows based on open metadata to bring about an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books and chapters.” Presentation by Toby Steiner and Zoe Wake Hyde at the Munin Conference 2025. Abstract and presentation slides.
October 19–25, 2025: “Open Access, Open Data, Open Archiving: Liberating Metadata Flows across the OA Books Landscape.” Presentation and poster by Hannah Hillen and Javier Arias at DCMI 2025. Poster.
October 14, 2025: “Managing Metadata for Open Access Books and Chapters – in ONIX and beyond.” Seminar contribution by Toby Steiner and Rupert Gatti at EDItEUR’s 46th International Supply Chain Seminar. Presentation slides.
October 7, 2025: “The power of horizontal collaboration: an interoperable and open not-for-profit ecosystem for open access books.” Conference contribution by Toby Steiner, Juan Pablo Alperin, Joe Deville, Rupert Gatti, Niels Stern, Graham Stone and Zoe Wake Hyde at the CRAFT-OA Conference. Presentation slides.
October 6, 2025: “Strengthening OA Book Discoverability through Open Metadata Workflows.” Presentation by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei at Nigeria’s National Summit on Open Access Book Publishing. Presentation page and slides.
October 2025: “Open Access, Open Metadata, Open Archiving: How to Liberate Metadata Flows across the OA Books Landscape.” Poster by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Hannah Hillen, Amanda Ramalho and Toby Steiner at the CRAFT-OA Conference. Poster.
September 17–19, 2025: “Scaling Small in der Praxis: Horizontale Zusammenarbeit auf der Grundlage von Open Values und Interoperabilität zur Unterstützung offener Workflows für Open-Access-Bücher.” Workshop contribution by Toby Steiner and Copim colleagues at Open-Access-Tage 2025. Workshop slides.
September 10–12, 2025: Presentation of Thoth Open Metadata as a finalist for the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing, by Hannah Hillen and Toby Steiner at the ALPSP Annual Conference & Awards 2025. Award finalists.
September 3, 2025: “No open access without open infrastructure: Five not-for-profit infrastructures with shared values for OA books.” Presentation by Hannah Hillen, Simon Bowie and Kevin Sanders at OpenFest 2025.
July 19–21, 2025: “Metadatos, ciencia abierta y democratización del conocimiento” and workshop on open metadata, led by Amanda Ramalho at the IX Coloquio de Edición Universitaria y Académica during the 29th Lima International Book Fair.
June 24–27, 2025: “Open Access, Open Metadata, Open Archiving: How to Liberate Metadata Flows across the OA Books Landscape.” Poster by Toby Steiner, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Hannah Hillen and Amanda Ramalho at the 9th Library Congress/BiblioCon 2025. Poster.
June 9, 2025: “Sustaining Open, Community Governed Infrastructures: Global reflections and perspectives.” Panel contribution by Toby Steiner, Joe Deville, Christina Drummond and Niels Stern at the Association of University Presses 2025 Annual Meeting.
May 28–29, 2025: “What’s in a Book? A review of book-related work types in various metadata schemas, and an attempt to align these in OMP and Thoth Open Metadata.” Presentation by Zoe Wake Hyde and Rupert Gatti at the Bologna Workshop on Open Citations.
May 22–23, 2025: “Scaling Small: Horizontal Collaboration based on Open Values and Interoperability to Sustain Open Workflows in Open Access Book Publishing.” Workshop by Toby Steiner, Kevin Sanders, Jordy Findanis, Sebastiano Sali and Margreet Nieborg at the Association of European University Presses Conference 2025. Workshop slides.
May 12–13, 2025: “Open Metadata Management and Dissemination with Thoth.” Presentation by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei at OMLOS: Open Metadata, Libraries & Open Science.
May 5–9, 2025: “Metadados sem barreiras: soluções abertas e sustentáveis para a gestão de livros em acesso aberto.” Workshop by Amanda Ramalho at the ABEU Seminar on Scholarly Publishing.
May 5–8, 2025: “Open Access, Open Metadata, Open Archiving: How to Liberate Metadata Flows across the OA Landscape.” Workshop by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Hannah Hillen and Toby Steiner at the Library Publishing Forum 2025.
April 30, 2025: “Thoth Open Metadata. Plataforma de metadatos en abierto sin ánimo de lucro.” Presentation for UNE en Diamante.
March 31–April 2, 2025: “It’s Nice, but is it sustainable? Rethinking sustainability for Diamond open access infrastructures and funding models.” Breakout session by Joe Deville, Tom Grady, Caroline Edwards, Rupert Gatti and Niels Stern at UKSG 2025. Presentation slides.
March 21, 2025: “No Open Access without Open Infrastructure: Five Open Infrastructures Supporting Diamond OA for Books.” Workshop presentation by Toby Steiner, Jordy Findanis and Kira Hopkins at the Swiss Diamond OA Workshop. Combined workshop slides.
March 20, 2025: “Metadata, standards and platforms for open access books: good metadata practice with Thoth.” Webinar by Hannah Hillen and Toby Steiner for the OABN and OIPA Good Metadata Practice webinar. Presentation slides and event report and recording.
February 20, 2025: “Practical Applications of Open Infrastructure Tools for Scholarly Communication.” Presentation by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei at an OASPA webinar. Presentation slides.
December 9–10, 2024: Open Monograph Publishing Workshop at the 2nd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, with contributions from Joe Deville, Rupert Gatti, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei and others.
December 2–4, 2024: “Thoth Open Metadata.” Workshop by Amanda Ramalho during the International University and Academic Publishing Forum at the Guadalajara International Book Fair. Presentation slides.
November 14, 2024: “Open Access, Open Metadata, Open Archiving: Liberating Metadata Flows across the OA Landscape.” Poster by Hannah Hillen, Livy Snyder, Lidia Uziel, Toby Steiner and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei at the Charleston Conference 2024. Poster.
November 13, 2024: “Governance in gemeinschaftlich geführten Organisationsformen am Beispiel von COPIM.” Presentation by Toby Steiner for the ELADOAH workshop on governance structures and sustainable organisational principles. Presentation slides.
November 6, 2024: “Thoth open metadata management and dissemination platform for open access books.” Webinar by Toby Steiner for EIFL. Presentation slides and recording.
October 24, 2024: “Delivering Open Access for Books by Default: Thoth Open Metadata.” Webinar contribution by Toby Steiner, alongside Joe Deville and Tom Grady, for the IOAP/OIPA webinar. Toby Steiner’s presentation slides.
October 1–2, 2024: “Copim und Scaling Small: Community-led publishing infrastructures for open access books.” Presentation and panel discussion by Toby Steiner at the JurOA Conference 2024. Presentation slides.
September 25, 2024: “Thoth Open Metadata: An update.” Presentation by Toby Steiner during Copim’s Open Book Futures project showcase. Presentation slides and event recordings.
September 23–24, 2024: “Leveraging the power of open research information to foster open collaboration towards an equitable not-for-profit ecosystem for Open Access books.” Presentation by Rupert Gatti at the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information Conference. Presentation slides.
September 16, 2024: “Can scaling small scale? Lessons learned from building community-led infrastructures for open access book publishing.” Poster presented by Joe Deville, with contributions from Toby Steiner, Hannah Hillen and other Copim colleagues, at the OASPA 2024 Conference. Poster.
September 11, 2024: “No open access without open infrastructure: Five non-profit infrastructures for OA books.” Poster presented by Hannah Hillen at Open-Access-Tage 2024. Poster.
June 19, 2024: “Thoth Open Metadata: Open, community-led infrastructures for metadata management, dissemination & archiving of OA books.” Presentation by Toby Steiner as part of the panel “The Open Book Collective and Thoth: Bringing publishers, libraries and service providers together to establish a shared sustainable open ecosystem for books” at OTESSA 2024. Presentation slides.
April 25, 2024: “How To Facilitate Horizontal Collaboration Between Community-Led Infrastructures for Equitable and Bibliodiverse Futures for Open Access Books?” Workshop by Lucy Barnes, Rupert Gatti, Kevin Sanders, Niels Stern and Toby Steiner at the OPERAS 2024 Conference.
February 18, 2024: “Transparency through community-led infrastructure: A pathway to trust.” Poster by Miranda Barnes and Toby Steiner at the 18th International Digital Curation Conference. Poster.
January 11, 2024: “Thoth Open Metadata: Offene, community-geleitete Infrastrukturen für Metadaten-Management, Dissemination & Archivierung von Open Access Büchern.” Presentation by Toby Steiner for the ENABLE! Werkstattgespräche. Presentation slides.
November 27, 2023: “A Community-led Future for OA Books: How can new OA infrastructures enable libraries to support ‘scaling small’ in scholarly publishing?” Presentation by Lidia Uziel, Livy Snyder, Dave Park and Toby Steiner at the Charleston Virtual Conference.
November 8, 2023: “Thoth Archiving Network: Supporting Small and Scholar-led Publishers with Repository-Led Preservation of OA Books.” Presentation by Miranda Barnes, Gareth Cole and Toby Steiner at the 18th Munin Conference on Scholarly Publishing. Presentation slides and abstract and recording.
November 3, 2023: “Thoth Open Metadata: Community-led Metadata Management, Dissemination & Archiving.” Joint presentation with the Open Book Collective at the Charleston Conference 2023. Presentation slides.
October 30, 2023: “Networks of libraries supporting open access book publishing.” Presentation by Rupert Gatti at Open and Engaged 2023: Community Over Commercialisation. Presentation slides.
October 26, 2023: “Managing and Disseminating Open Metadata of Scholarly Monographs.” Presentation by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei at the Workshop on Open Citations & Open Scholarly Metadata 2023. Presentation slides.
October 25, 2023: “Community-led Metadata Management, Dissemination & Archiving with Thoth.” Webinar by Toby Steiner for Open Access Week at the University of Latvia Library. Presentation slides.
October 23, 2023: “Scholars are doing it for themselves: The challenges and opportunities of open access scholar-led publishing.” Webinar-panel contribution by Toby Steiner during Open Access Week 2023 at the University of Sheffield. Presentation slides.
October 4, 2023: “Open Infrastructures for Open Access books: Community-led Metadata Management, Dissemination & Archiving with Thoth.” Webinar contribution by Toby Steiner for Jisc’s Collective funding models for open access books. Presentation slides.
September 29, 2023: “Die Zukunft von Open-Access-Büchern in der deutschen Open-Access-Landschaft: Strategische, ökonomische und wissenschaftspolitische Perspektiven.” Workshop-panel contribution by Toby Steiner at Open-Access-Tage 2023.
September 28, 2023: “Thoth Open Metadata Management and Distribution Service for OA Books.” Poster presented by Toby Steiner at Open-Access-Tage 2023. Poster.
September 27, 2023: “COPIM und Governance von wissenschaftsgeleiteten Publikationsinfrastrukturen.” Presentation by Toby Steiner at the satellite conference Wissenschaftsgeleitetes Open-Access-Publizieren. Presentation slides.
September 20, 2023: “Equity and sustainability in Diamond OA publishing.” Panel contribution by Amanda Ramalho, with Judith Fathallah, Sharla Lair, Caroline Edwards and Rob Cookson, at the OASPA 2023 Conference.
September 20, 2023: “Thoth Open Metadata: a Community-led Open Metadata Management and Distribution Service for Open Access Books.” Poster presented by Toby Steiner at the OASPA 2023 Conference. Poster.
September 2, 2023: “Open Metadata Management and Dissemination with Thoth.” Presentation by Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei at OSCAL 2023.
July 14, 2023: “The Thoth open dissemination system.” Presentation by Toby Steiner as part of the COPIM–SciELO 25 Years Seminar. Presentation slides and recording.
July 6, 2023: Open Book Collective and Thoth Open Metadata poster presentation by Francesca Corazza and Toby Steiner at LIBER 2023.
June 27, 2023: “The COPIM Project’s Tools and Infrastructures to Support Open Access Monographs.” Virtual conference contribution by Joe Deville, Tom Grady and Toby Steiner at the Open Science Conference.
May 9, 2023: “Introducing Thoth: Open Metadata Manager & Distribution Service for OA Books.” Presentation at the Library Publishing Forum 2023. Presentation slides and recording.
April 21, 2023: “Open Infrastructures: Open Metadata Management and Dissemination with Thoth.” Presentation at the COPIM end-of-project conference, Scaling Small: Community-Owned Futures for Open Access Books. Presentation slides and recording.
October 26, 2022: Thoth poster presentation at Crossref LIVE22. Poster.
May 26, 2022: “The Challenge of Disseminating Metadata on Library Published Open Access Books.” Presentation at the Library Publishing Forum 2022. Presentation slides.