University of London Press joins Thoth! | University of London Press

We are pleased to announce our new partnership with Thoth, a metadata management and distribution platform built specifically for open access book publishers.

Our move to join Thoth marks a significant milestone for the Press in our mission to make humanities research more accessible to a global audience. The agreement with Thoth, a non-profit, open metadata management and dissemination platform whose software is open source, will enable us to expand our reach, allowing more researchers, students, institutions and non-academic audiences to access and engage with our publications. Thoth’s aim is to transform academic publishing by tackling the problems of getting Open Access works into the book supply chain, ensuring their long-term sustainability and accessibility. The partnership comes one year after the Press announced that their Open Access titles had surpassed one million global downloads.

This partnership is set to help us with promoting our open access titles, allowing for faster and more efficient content dissemination, richer metadata and an expanded distribution network, allowing the Press to offer improved visibility and discoverability for all of our open access books.

Thoth provides:

• Metadata management for books and chapters
• Automated distribution to various platforms
• Archiving and preservation of scholarly works
• DOI registration and management
• Open APIs for seamless integration with other platforms.

“We are excited to join Thoth and leverage their technology and expertise to further our commitment to accessible, high-quality academic publishing. By embracing the capabilities of Thoth, we can better serve our community, amplify high-quality scholarly research in the humanities, and continue to push the boundaries of how academic research is shared.”

Paula Kennedy, Head of Publishing of the University of London Press

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Thoth’s innovative infrastructure makes it easier for users to discover and engage with academic works, and their guiding principle is ‘no open access without open infrastructure’. The platform’s open-access model promotes the free distribution of knowledge, while their open architecture and APIs empower publishers to integrate seamlessly with other platforms and workflows, ensuring that publishers are not locked into any specific platform or service, and research is accessible to a diverse range of readers.

We are excited to embark on this journey with Thoth, and together, aim to create an even more inclusive and connected academic publishing ecosystem.

You can learn more about Thoth on their website. We are currently working on adding all of our Open Access titles to their platform. You can also read more about our publishing partners, and the different projects and initiatives we’re involved in.