From OMP to DOAB, via Thoth: Open Collaboration to Amplify Slovenian OA Books

Reflections from the OPERAS Open Infrastructures for Open Access Books Working Group workshop held on May 20 as part of the OPERAS Conference 2026, Warsaw. Presentation slides are available via https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20432401 

On 20 May 2026, the OPERAS Open Infrastructures for Open Access Books Working Group organised a workshop during the first day of the OPERAS Conference in Warsaw, bringing together approximately 35 participants from across the OPERAS network and the wider open scholarly communication community.

The workshop, titled “From OMP to DOAB, via Thoth: Open Collaboration to Amplify Slovenian OA Books“, explored how open, community-led infrastructures can work together to improve the dissemination, discoverability, interoperability, and long-term sustainability of Open Access (OA) books.

The session brought together expertise from four key not-for-profit infrastructures – Thoth Open Metadata, the OAPEN Foundation, the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), and the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), all of which are OPERAS members – alongside representatives from the Slovenian OPERAS node (OPERAS-SI), including ZRC SAZU, the University of Maribor, and the University of Ljubljana.

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