these are not working on 21 August 2024
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OK, I'm a little slow on this stuff so maybe other people have already picked this up but, it just hit me in the face how easy it must be to use OCLC's xISBN service. Research Buzz recently wrote a piece about using OCLC's xISBN service to harvest a list of all the Wikipedia pages citing a book. Here's how it works:
Replace the ##### in this template with the ISBN of the book you're interested in.
http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/###########?method=getEditions&format=xml&library=wikipedia&fl=*
For example this url http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/006073132X?method=getEditions&format=xml&library=wikipedia&fl=*
gets an xml version of a list of urls of all the pages in Wikipedia that mention the book Freakonomics. One line for each different ISBN. You can see it more easily in the html version (substitute format=html for format=xml)
http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/006073132X?method=getEditions&format=html&library=wikipedia&fl=*
I have a LibX tool bar in my browser so whenever LibX sees a number on a page that it thinks is an ISBN, ISSN, etc. it turns that number into a link for searching the Hopkins library catalog. This is what the first line looks like for me:
006073132X Freakonomics BA 2005 eng 1st ed. William Morrow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Broken_Windows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Broken_Windows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_Sense http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakonomics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloran
Replace the ##### in this template with the ISBN of the book you're interested in.
http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/###########?method=getEditions&format=xml&library=wikipedia&fl=*
For example this url http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/006073132X?method=getEditions&format=xml&library=wikipedia&fl=*
gets an xml version of a list of urls of all the pages in Wikipedia that mention the book Freakonomics. One line for each different ISBN. You can see it more easily in the html version (substitute format=html for format=xml)
http://xisbn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/isbn/006073132X?method=getEditions&format=html&library=wikipedia&fl=*
I have a LibX tool bar in my browser so whenever LibX sees a number on a page that it thinks is an ISBN, ISSN, etc. it turns that number into a link for searching the Hopkins library catalog. This is what the first line looks like for me:
006073132X Freakonomics BA 2005 eng 1st ed. William Morrow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Broken_Windows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing_Broken_Windows http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_Sense http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakonomics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloran
