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ScienceOpen
ScienceOpen is a discovery platform for scholarly research. Its database is openly accessible to users. While initially focusing on OA journal articles, ScienceOpen has been expanding its reach to include OA books, which now amounts to >3 million book and chapter records aggregated.
As of 2021-04, a dedicated project funded by Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research is seeking to more formally place OA books/monographs within the scope of ScienceOpen, with a corresponding plan to develop an advanced metadata standard.
The ScienceOpen platform shall make metadata creation, management, and delivery an intuitive and easy to handle task for open access publishers to support best-practices and increase discoverability. Source: ScienceOpen blog
will allow for data export in customary industry standards, such as BITS, MARC, ONIX, or Crossref, to facilitate compatibility with and extensive distribution across various databases and repositories and will guarantee compliance with common standards and best practices. Source: ScienceOpen blog
The user interface will enable smaller and mid-sized institutional scientific publishers, libraries or university presses to easily maintain and enrich their metadata. These stakeholders will be able to make use of a state-of-the-art system to create from scratch or enrich available input via an easy-to-use user interface storing data in versatile BITS XML format. Source: ScienceOpen blog
Users can export metadata records from ScienceOpen to Thoth. As of 2023 we are working on a closer integration.
The Thoth Wiki has been developed in the context of the COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) project. Individual contributions to the wiki have been made by Tim Elfenbein, Rupert Gatti, Ross Higman, Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Tobias Steiner and Hannah Hillen under the general editorship of Van Gerven Oei. All data are available under a CC-BY 4.0 license.