For Publishers
Your branded publishing platform.
Live today. No setup fee. No rev share.
ZenPub gives academic publishers, trade publishers, and learned societies a fully white-labelled platform to sell institutional subscriptions and patron access — with COUNTER 5.1, ONIX/MARC/KBART, OpenAthens/SAML SSO, and Readium LCP DRM included out of the box.
Traditional publishing platforms built for another era
Here's what ZenPub replaces — and what you get instead.
Six-figure setup fees and 12-month implementation projects
→Self-serve in hours, $0 setup fee, monthly licence only
Revenue share eating 15–30% of every sale
→0% revenue share — every pound/dollar from your sales goes to you
Manual COUNTER report requests taking weeks
→Auto-generated TR, DR, IR reports; SUSHI endpoint for ERM self-service
MARC records to catalogue individually — or pay per record
→MARC 21 exported automatically on upload, with correct 650 $2 thesaurus codes
IT involvement needed for every institution's SSO setup
→OpenAthens, SAML, Shibboleth, IP-range — configured from your admin panel, no IT calls
Platform capabilities
Everything a publisher needs.
Nothing you have to configure separately.
COUNTER 5.1 — auto-generated, not an afterthought
TR, DR, and IR reports are generated from every access event — no spreadsheets, no quarterly exports. Your institutional buyers access their own SUSHI endpoint; you see the aggregate view across all buyers. Built on the exact COUNTER 5.1 code of practice, not an approximation.
COUNTER 5.1
ONIX, MARC, and KBART — library-ready on upload
Import ONIX 3.0 feeds from your existing workflows. Every title gets MARC 21 records with subject headings auto-populated from LCSH, ERIC, AGROVOC, JEL, ACM CCS, ICD-11, or Wikidata depending on your subject domain. KBART Phase II holdings exports keep Ex Libris, OCLC, and ProQuest knowledge bases current.
ONIX, MARC,
Institutional access your library buyers expect
Every access method libraries use — OpenAthens federation, SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth, IP-range with unlimited CIDR blocks, and walk-in access — is configured from your admin dashboard without code. CrossRef DOI lookup, reference linking, and PubMed metadata sync are included.
Institutional access
Readium LCP DRM — open standard, no reader lock-in
Protect your content with Readium LCP — the open-standard DRM built by EDRLab. Limit copying, printing, and device sharing without locking your readers to a proprietary app. Compatible with Thorium Reader, Aldiko, and any Readium-compliant reading system.
Readium LCP
Your storefront, your domain, your brand
Every ZenPub deployment is fully white-labelled — your domain, your logo, your colour palette. Sell institutional subscriptions (B2B) and direct patron access (B2C) from the same storefront. Stripe and Razorpay handle payments; you keep 100% of revenue. Add your own ISBN prefix; we generate MARC records to match.
Your storefront,
ZenGuy — your AI admin that never sleeps
Ask ZenGuy to generate your Q1 COUNTER report, pull a renewal list for accounts expiring this month, check what content is missing from your science collection, or export MARC records for all titles added this quarter — in plain English, from any device.
ZenGuy
Getting started
From sign-up to live catalogue in one day
01
Sign up — no sales call
Create your account at zenpub.zentrovia.tech, choose your plan, and set your custom domain. You are configuring a production platform, not a demo environment.
02
Upload your catalogue
Import via ONIX feed, ePub upload, or PDF batch. Metadata is parsed, subject terms auto-tagged, DOIs resolved, and MARC records generated — all before you hit publish.
03
Configure institutional access
Set up OpenAthens federation, SAML, or IP ranges for each institution from your admin panel. Set pricing tiers, embargo windows, and member-only access rules.
04
Go live and grow
Publish, invite institutional buyers, and watch real-time COUNTER analytics come in. Let ZenGuy handle recurring admin — report generation, renewal chasing, content gap checks.
36+ integrations. All included.
SAML, OpenAthens, Shibboleth, IP-range, CrossRef, LCSH, ERIC, AGROVOC, MARC 21, KBART, ONIX, COUNTER 5.1, Readium LCP, Stripe, Razorpay, OAI-PMH — and more. No integration fees. No add-on modules. No professional services required.
Ready to own your digital publishing stack?
No sales call. No setup fee. No 12-month implementation. Sign up, claim your domain, and start selling institutional access today.