ONIX FOR BOOKS
ONIX for Books is the international standard for the transmission of product information in the supply chain and has been adopted in some sixteen countries in Europe, North America and elsewhere. BIC promotes ONIX in the UK trade and provides UK input to the development of ONIX internationally.
New release: ONIX 3.0 (April 2009)
ONIX version 3.0 has now been published, representing a major step forward for the ONIX standard. The new release has been developed to address perceived shortcomings of the previous versions, especially for the description of digital products and publishers' marketing collateral, but also for the handling of multi-volume sets and series and to enable the blocking of records to permit more efficient updating. The new version is not backwards compatible with previous versions and the opportunity has been taken to remove elements which had become deprecated as a result of previous updates and revisions.
To see the full documentation for ONIX 3.0, click here.
An Introduction to ONIX for Books 3.0. This includes a summary of the main changes between versions 2.1 and 3.0
Documentation for previous releases of ONIX for Books can be reached here.
ONIX Code Lists Issue 10 (July 2009)
This includes both new codes for release 2.1 and also code lists applicable to release 3.0.
An Introduction to ONIX for Books
A simple guide for new users of ONIX.
ONIX for Publications Licenses
