Bibliographic data distribution
Quality-assured metadata spread far and wide
BiblioShare™ aggregates metadata and supporting assets like covers, excerpts, reading guides, and more files from publishers and suppliers, and we make it available to you through the following web services.
ONIX web service
The ONIX Web Service allows an aggregator to pull a full ONIX record for titles in the Canadian market. This web service is for you if you’re looking for extremely detailed information about books. It’s big and complex, but gives you access to all the data we have on an individual title.
Image web services
Pull full-sized or thumbnail images such as covers, interiors, or author photos. You can also access the image metadata, including timestamps and dimensions.
BiblioSimple
The BiblioSimple web service returns a ‘thinner’ version of the ONIX record, for those sites which don’t need the full record. It’s designed for display purposes, so it includes the basics: title, contributor names, format, publication date, price, etc.
Bookstore Builder Shopify plugin
Our Bookstore Builder plugin for Shopify helps you set up your online bookstore with publisher-supplied book metadata from BiblioShare. To add rich data to the books in your bookstore, just enter a list of ISBNs and sit back as Bookstore Builder fills your store with book data and maintains changes and updates seamlessly. Setup is easy and maintenance is minimal.
Bibli-O-Matic
Bibli-O-Matic is a browser extension that automatically detects ISBNs anywhere on the web and, with a single click, pulls data from BiblioShare on things like pub date, keywords, images (including covers and interiors), list price, and more.
See how it works or install it now: Chrome/Microsoft Edge | Firefox.
BiblioShare Assets
This web service returns a list of all the assets held in BiblioShare for a particular ISBN, including ONIX 2.1 and/or 3.0 records, any images (covers, interiors, author images), position, and samples.
Sample web service
This web service allows users to pull any samples/excerpts, tables of contents, or teacher’s/reading guides associated with an ISBN from BiblioShare. Files are delivered as either EPUB or PDF files, as available.
Get a web service token
All you need to get set up on any and all of these web services is a free user token,* which you can get by filling out the required fields below and choosing “I am interested in Requesting a BiblioShare web services token.” Or, if you need to do large data pulls and want a custom solution, choose “I am interested in Requesting a quote for a custom BiblioShare solution.”