{"id":1460,"date":"2018-07-30T12:28:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-30T01:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2018-07-30T12:28:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T01:28:03","slug":"faq-with-the-isbn-team-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/articles\/2018\/07\/30\/1460\/faq-with-the-isbn-team-7\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ with the ISBN team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is double allocation of ISBNs and how can I avoid it?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Double allocation&#8217; is when an ISBN that is already assigned to a title is used again for a new title in error.<\/p>\n<p>It is not advisable to assume that all your previously allocated ISBNs will have title information visible against them in your MyIdentifiers account.<\/p>\n<p>There are various reasons why an ISBN may have been allocated to a published title but the title is not appearing in your MyIdentifiers account against that ISBN.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You may have urgently needed the ISBN for marketing etc and did not have time to add the title details<\/li>\n<li>You may not have known the final title when you assigned the ISBN<\/li>\n<li>Previous staff at your company or organisation may have assigned an ISBN but not put the title details<\/li>\n<li>You may have sent Thorpe-Bowker the title details but for some reason the details were never added<\/li>\n<li>You may have allowed other people involved in the publishing process to have access to your account, such as a printer or designer, who may not be aware of the correct procedures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When allocating a new ISBN from your MyIdentifiers account, we would recommend you check your own records and also check the ISBN at <a href=\"https:\/\/catalogue.nla.gov.au\/\">https:\/\/catalogue.nla.gov.au\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If that ISBN has been assigned to a title and a legal deposit copy has been submitted to the National Library it will appear on the NLA catalogue.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, it is your responsibility to ensure you select an ISBN that is available and not already allocated to another of your publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is double allocation of ISBNs and how can I avoid it? &#8216;Double allocation&#8217; is when an ISBN that is already assigned to a title is used again for a new title in error. It is not advisable to assume that all your previously allocated ISBNs will have title information visible against them in your<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-isbn-team","category-newsletter"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/independentpublishing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}