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) 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.
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 are included in the Thoth Sphinx and Pyramid packages.
Real-life examples
Open Book Publishers
visit Open Book Publishers' (OBP's) live webpage for a fuller impression of the many features available through Thoth Website & Catalogue Hosting solutions. These 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
More examples to follow ...