xISBN

• Provides basic metadata about the object
• Provides list of other editions
• Converts between 10 and 13 digit ISBNs
• Fixes Checksum with ISBN
• Adds hyphens to ISBN

What you get

• Basic Metadata
  • 
    title
  • form
  • publication year
  • language
  • original language
  • edition number
  • city of publication
  • author
  • lccn
  • oclcnum
  • url – link back to record in worldcat.org
• Relationships between editions and their basic metadata
• Information about availability of fulltext from Open Content Alliance and/or Hathi Trust

Who can use it

Non-commercial Use

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Usage Limit

500 queries per day

Query protocols

REST, OpenURL, unAPI

Record formats

XML, JSON, CSV, TEXT, Python, PHP, Ruby, and HTML

Authentication methods

• Token
• IP

Frequency of Update

Monthly

Base Service URL

http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/