Why be ONIX compliant?

Because compliance enables you to:

• Be sure all your electronic data is immediately recognised and "read"  without error or delay.
• Save time dealing with recipients questioning your data.
• Save time extracting, compiling and receiving information when the whole trade's conformed to a standard universally understood, regardless of hardware or software.
• Participate in TitlePage, the APA's Price & Availability Service.
• Display the official APA ONIX Compliance logo on your company website (and receive a compliance-listing with the APA website).
• Be at the forefront of this unique opportunity to eliminate  incompatibilities in the exchange of electronic book product information.

ONIX Compliance Requirements

To help with the "how-to" of ONIX, the APA has put together ONIX Basics, a document detailing the ONIX fields for compliance in Australia. It contains:

• Smart Data: The user friendly 'english' version of ONIX with both mandatory and optional fields.
• Basic ONIX Record: The minimum ONIX references required for a record to be ONIX compliant both for the EPICS project and TitlePage.
• Ideal ONIX Record: The ideal ONIX references required for a full record and the record which will provide TitlePage with a complete set of data.

Together with the ONIX Compliance guidelines, ONIX Basics will help your company come to grips with this new standard.   

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