Thoth Oasis

Thoth revolutionises metadata management for open access publishers by offering a one-stop self-service platform tailored to their specific needs, all available fully for free!

Whether you are a small independent publisher or a mid-sized university press, Thoth has the solution for efficient creation and management of high-quality metadata for your publications. Say goodbye to the complexities and inefficiencies of fragmented metadata systems and wrangling dozens of spreadsheets – with Thoth, you can streamline your workflow and ensure accuracy and consistency across all your metadata records.

Oasis in a nutshell

• Full metadata management – no strings attached! Just register an account, and get started on your open metadata journey;
• Multilingual metadata and interface ready at your fingertips, can include accessibility metadata, and bulk ingest of back catalogues (via CSV and ONIX 3.0)
• Integration with open publishing platforms such as Open Monograph Press;
• Self-managed open archiving: record where your books are preserved, with archive links and checksums kept alongside your metadata;
• Free exports of open metadata records in all the main industry standards, including multiple variants of ONIX 3.1/3.0/2.1, as well as MARC21, CSV, JSON, BibTeX, and KBART;
• Free export of best-in-class Crossref DOI deposit records (XML).

Sounds intriguing? Sign up for your free publisher account here!

Self-managed archiving

We believe long-term preservation shouldn't depend on budget. With Thoth Oasis, you can build your own distributed archiving strategy using trusted open infrastructures such as the Internet Archive, Zenodo, or your institutional repository. Thoth supports this by providing standardised, high-quality metadata to deposit alongside your files, and by letting you record the URL and checksum of each archived copy in your Thoth records. Your archived versions stay discoverable and verifiable across every location, and you keep full control over where and how your books are preserved. This approach follows the Copim Open Archiving Criteria.

Want it automated? The Thoth Open Archiving Network (TOAN), included in Thoth Obelisk), deposits and monitors your files across several platforms for you. See Open Archiving for details.