Website & Catalogue Hosting

Thoth Open Metadata’s website hosting service offers a highly customisable publisher website and integrated catalogue, created for open access book publishers and consortia or other organisations managing open access book catalogues.

Key Features include

• Customisable Publisher Website & Integrated Catalogue: Launch a fully branded site with responsive design, advanced integrated catalogue leveraging fully open metadata, featuring detailed book and chapter landing pages. Built on a powerful global CDN, your website and catalogue load fast, scale easily, and offer readers a seamless mobile-first experience.
• Best-in-Class Metadata Integration: Manage and distribute metadata centrally and in multiple open formats (ONIX, JSON, MARC, KBART, Crossref XML) through Thoth's advanced platform. Among other benefits, this will help publishers to meet recent metadata requirements mandated by EU legislation – thus empowering publishers to future-proof discoverability of their titles across the scholarly ecosystem by implementing good metadata practice with Open Science and FAIR principles in mind.
• Advanced Catalogue Search: Customisable filters for users to refine searches by categories, language, funder, or book type.
• Mobile-Friendly Design: Responsive layout for optimal viewing on any device.
• Enhanced User Experience: Book and chapter-level landing pages with detailed metadata and download options.
• Metrics Widget integration: Provides insights on usage metrics across platforms with a visually accessible design.
• Improved Speed and Scalability: Built on a globally distributed content delivery network (CDN) for blazingly-fast access worldwide.

Thoth Open Metadata’s website and catalogue hosting service is designed for easy scalability and supports the academic publishing community in increasing accessibility and discoverability of open access books and chapters.

With Thoth Pyramid, a publisher's website runs on Strapi, an open-source highly customisable content management system, so your team can update pages, news and announcements without any coding. The integrated book catalogue is fed directly from a publisher's Thoth records, so every metadata update automatically appears on the website. Because everything is built on open-source software, content is never locked into a proprietary platform.

Our white-label approach to website and catalogue hosting is being employed in Thoth’s own website, powering our extended catalogue, and has already been implemented by publishers such as Open Book Publishers, and consortia such as the Netherlands University Presses (NUPs.nl). Thoth Open Metadata’s catalogue is also powering the Open Book Collective’s shared catalogue of open access titles, providing OBC stakeholders direct and easy access to the rich metadata provided by OBC member publishers.

Find out more from Thoth CTO Javier Arias about his thoughts regarding the concept of our white-label approach on Open Book Publishers’ blog.

👀 Website and catalogue hosting is included in the Thoth Pyramid package.

Real-life examples

Open Book Publishers & punctum books

Visit the webpages of Open Book Publishers (OBP) and punctum books for a fuller impression of the many features available through Thoth Website & Catalogue Hosting solutions. These can include full integration of shopping cart functionality, automated integration of usage statistics widgets on each of the books listed in their catalogue, and many more.

Open Book Collective

Thoth provides the technical backend and direct integration of a full-fledged catalogue of all open access titles published by every publisher represented on the Open Book Collective. Find the live catalogue at https://catalogue.openbookcollective.org/books

NUPS.nl - Netherlands University Presses shared catalogue

The NUPs shared catalogue brings together the open access books of six Dutch university presses in a single, searchable showcase: Leiden University Press, Maastricht University Press, Open Press TiU, Radboud University Press, TU Delft Open Publishing and University of Groningen Press. Built on Thoth's white-label catalogue hosting, it draws directly on each press's records in Thoth, so every press maintains its metadata once and the consortium catalogue stays up to date automatically. The result is a joint showcase window for all participating presses, run jointly as community-led infrastructure.