ONIX Code Lists Issue 22, July 2013
List 5: Product identifier type code

Value Description Notes

01 Proprietary For example, a publisher’s or wholesaler’s product number.
02 ISBN-10 International Standard Book Number, pre-2007, unhyphenated (10 characters) – now DEPRECATED in ONIX for Books, except where providing historical information for compatibility with legacy systems. It should only be used in relation to products published before 2007 – when ISBN-13 superseded it – and should never be used as the ONLY identifier (it should always be accompanied by the correct GTIN-13 / ISBN-13).
03 GTIN-13 GS1 Global Trade Item Number, formerly known as EAN article number (13 digits).
04 UPC UPC product number (12 digits).
05 ISMN-10 International Standard Music Number (M plus nine digits). Pre-2008 – now DEPRECATED in ONIX for Books, except where providing historical information for compatibility with legacy systems. It should only be used in relation to products published before 2008 – when ISMN-13 superseded it – and should never be used as the ONLY identifier (it should always be accompanied by the correct ISMN-13).
06 DOI Digital Object Identifier (variable length and character set).
13 LCCN Library of Congress Control Number (12 characters, alphanumeric).
14 GTIN-14 GS1 Global Trade Item Number (14 digits).
15 ISBN-13 International Standard Book Number, from 2007, unhyphenated (13 digits starting 978 or 9791–9799).
17 Legal deposit number The number assigned to a publication as part of a national legal deposit process.
22 URN Uniform Resource Name: note that in trade applications an ISBN must be sent as a GTIN-13 and, where required, as an ISBN-13 – it should not be sent as a URN.
23 OCLC number A unique number assigned to a bibliographic item by OCLC.
24 Co-publisher’s ISBN-13 An ISBN-13 assigned by a co-publisher. The ‘main’ ISBN sent with ID type code 03 and/or 15 should always be the ISBN that is used for ordering from the supplier identified in Supply Detail. However, ISBN rules allow a co-published title to carry more than one ISBN. The co-publisher should be identified in an instance of the <Publisher> composite, with the applicable <PublishingRole> code.
25 ISMN-13 International Standard Music Number, from 2008 (13-digit number starting 9790).
26 ISBN-A Actionable ISBN, in fact a special DOI incorporating the ISBN-13 within the DOI syntax. Begins ‘10.978.’ or ‘10.979.’ and includes a / character between the registrant element (publisher prefix) and publication element of the ISBN, eg 10.978.000/1234567. Note the ISBN-A should always be accompanied by the ISBN itself, using codes 03 and/or 15.
27 JP e-code E-publication identifier controlled by JPOIID’s Committee for Research and Management of Electronic Publishing Codes.
28 OLCC number Unique number assigned by the Chinese Online Library Cataloging Center (see http://olcc.nlc.gov.cn).
29 JP Magazine ID Japanese magazine identifier, similar in scope to ISSN but identifying a specific issue of a serial publication. Five digits to identify the periodical, plus a hyphen and two digits to identify the issue.