The HathiTrust BibAPI might help you out -- you can get MARC-XML back with
a call, although of course its only as good as the underlying record and
our coverage won't be nearly as good as the OCLC.

Format is:

http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/full/isbn/080582796X.json





On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 8:38 PM, William Denton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On 21 January 2013, David Fiander wrote:
>
>  All I'm really looking for at this point is a way to convert an ISBN into
>> basic bibliographic data, and to find any related ISBNs, a la OCLC's xISBN
>> service.
>>
>
> LibraryThing's thingISBN is nice and might serve your needs:
>
>         http://www.librarything.com/**wiki/index.php/LibraryThing_**APIs<http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/LibraryThing_APIs>
>
> Bill
> --
> William Denton
> Toronto, Canada
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>



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