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).