Case studies

• The Thoth metadata manager is presently being used in production by a number of small/scholar-led publishers, including African Minds, Mattering Press, mediastudies.press, meson press, Open Book Publishers, and punctum books 

• White Horse Press currently submits metadata to Nielsen and BDS but is working towards making book metadata available via Thoth and ScienceOpen’s BookMetaHub (direct correspondence)

• Stockholm University Press used Ubiquity to manage its metadata, as well as Lightning Source, its print-on-demand service, to distribute metadata to vendors (Business Models for OA books).