diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index e09adc83e2f..55d21265e7d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Note that this project **does not** adhere to [Semantic Versioning](http://semve
 - We added a DOI format and organization check to detect [American Physical Society](https://journals.aps.org/) journals to copy the article ID
 to the page field for cases where the page numbers are missing. [#7019](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/7019)
 - We added a new fetcher to enable users to search jstor.org [#6627](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/6627)
+- We added an error message in the New Entry dialog that is shown in case the fetcher did not find anything . [#7000](https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/7000)
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/EntryTypeViewModel.java b/src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/EntryTypeViewModel.java
index c2d055c08bb..21f60791931 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/EntryTypeViewModel.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/EntryTypeViewModel.java
@@ -176,6 +176,10 @@ public void runFetcherWorker() {
                 searchSuccesfulProperty.set(true);
             } else if (StringUtil.isBlank(idText.getValue())) {
                 dialogService.showWarningDialogAndWait(Localization.lang("Empty search ID"), Localization.lang("The given search ID was empty."));
+            } else if (result.isEmpty()) {
+                String fetcher = selectedItemProperty().getValue().getName();
+                String searchId = idText.getValue();
+                dialogService.showErrorDialogAndWait(Localization.lang("Fetcher '%0' did not find an entry for id '%1'.", fetcher, searchId));
             }
             fetcherWorker = new FetcherWorker();
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/importer/fetcher/IsbnViaOttoBibFetcher.java b/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/importer/fetcher/IsbnViaOttoBibFetcher.java
index 28402523e19..30e6f8513ff 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/importer/fetcher/IsbnViaOttoBibFetcher.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/jabref/logic/importer/fetcher/IsbnViaOttoBibFetcher.java
@@ -58,6 +58,13 @@ public Optional<BibEntry> performSearchById(String identifier) throws FetcherExc
             throw new FetcherException("Could not ", e);
         }
         Element textArea = html.select("textarea").first();
+
+        // inspect the "no results" error message (if there is one)
+        Optional<Element> potentialErrorMessageDiv = Optional.ofNullable((html.select("div#flash-notice.notice.add-bottom").first()));
+        if (potentialErrorMessageDiv.isPresent() && potentialErrorMessageDiv.get().text().contains("No Results")) {
+            LOGGER.error("ISBN {} not found at ottobib", identifier);
+        }
+
         Optional<BibEntry> entry = Optional.empty();
         try {
             entry = BibtexParser.singleFromString(textArea.text(), importFormatPreferences, new DummyFileUpdateMonitor());