xISBN now includes optional WorldCat.org links

Now you can link to WorldCat.org records from your xISBN results.

The xISBN Web service supplies ISBNs and other information associated with an individual intellectual work represented in WorldCat. Submit an ISBN to this service, and it returns a list of related ISBNs and selected metadata.

The xISBN service is based on WorldCat, the world's largest network of library content and services.

With this new enhancement, you can now easily have all of your results link directly to the WorldCat.org item—which means if a user finds an item through your xISBN-powered app, they can now quickly locate it in a nearby library through WorldCat.org.

To enable automatic linking to WorldCat.org, simply add the argument "?fl=url" to the end of an xISBN request, like this:
http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/0596002815?fl=url
Get more details and gain access to xISBN through the WorldCat Affiliates page on the WorldCat.org Web site.

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