Add Thoth Open Access collection as a Community Zone
This is a request to add the collection of Diamond OA publications in Thoth (http://www.thoth.pub/) as a Community Zone collection.
Thoth contains a steadily growing collection of OA publications from scholar-led publishers such as punctum books, Open Book Publishers, meson press, mediastudies.press, and African Minds, and we have been working with UC Santa Barbara Library to make it more accessible to libraries worldwide.
Creating a dedicated Community Zone would substantially increase access to these OA publishers.
Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei
shared this idea
Hello,
We have added 10 new Thoth collections to the Knowledgebases.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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AdminTamar Ganor
(Admin, Ex Libris)
commented
Hello,
We encountered some technical delays in processing the metadata.
The content provider is working with us to resolve the issues, and we expect the collections to be added by end of August 2025.
Thank you for your patience,
Tamar -
Thoth Open Metadata commented
Wonderful to hear this is being taken up! Would you have an update on how the implementation has been going? Any news on this would be much appreciated, thank you!
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Nicola Stratton
commented
Also noting support of this request from the National Library of Scotland. It would be great for institutions to be able to efficiently access these OA collections/publications via the CZ.
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Hello, we at Thoth wholeheartedly support Vincent's motion and would be really interested in moving this forward - could anybody from ExLibris get in touch with us either directly via the comments, or by reaching out to info@thoth.pub? That'd be amazing, thank you!
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Cody Hackett commented
Updated link to resource: https://thoth.pub/
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Jeremy Hobbs commented
UC Santa Barbara would like to second this request.
Thoth is an extensive resource and it would be a great benefit to all Alma institutions to be able to have access to these OA collections through the community zone.