DOAB documentation for publishers

Publishers are responsible for providing and maintaining their own information about their organisation and their publications in DOAB. For this purpose, we provide you with an account so that you can log in to DOAB.

Please download our 2024-08 DOAB Publishers’ Guide.pdf for full instructions, including how to log in to DOAB for the first time. Version history (changelog):

  • 2024-08 Updated: You can search and browse Thema Subject Categories to look up Thema classification codes
  • 2024-07 New: Export DOAB metadata > How to find unique identifiers for all of your publisher records and How to find the details of all PRISM records associated with your publisher account; updated section Making changes in bulk
  • 2024-04 Updated BIC to Thema; new section: “Work with DOAB metadata”

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Thema classification codes

Use EDItEUR’s online interactive browser to select Thema classification codes.

EDItEUR provides spreadsheets in various languages here (https://www.editeur.org/151/Thema/#Code_lists) as well as the briefest set of instructions on how to use the scheme, and this page also hosts mappings from the old BIC scheme to Thema and from BISAC to Thema.

Thema is freely available and usable without fee, under a highly permissive but not entirely ‘open’ license DOI:10.4400/nwgj.

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