The International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is for identifying printed books.

Prefix

isbn

Alternative Prefixes

ISBN-13 ISBN-10

Keywords

bibliography

Links

Homepage

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in International Standard Book Number should match this regular expression:
^(ISBN)?(-13|-10)?[:]?[ ]?(\d{2,3}[ -]?)?\d{1,5}[ -]?\d{1,7}[ -]?\d{1,6}[ -]?(\d|X)$

Example Local Unique Identifiers

9789211613865   Resolve
978-92-1-161386-5   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from International Standard Book Number should match this regular expression:
^isbn:(ISBN)?(-13|-10)?[:]?[ ]?(\d{2,3}[ -]?)?\d{1,5}[ -]?\d{1,7}[ -]?\d{1,6}[ -]?(\d|X)$

Example CURIEs

isbn:9789211613865
isbn:978-92-1-161386-5

Contact

Missing Contact

Identifier Space Owner

OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Ohio

Mappings from records in Bioregistry to external registries comprises the metaregistry. This resource has 7 mappings to external registries with 3 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier 9789211613865 is used to demonstrate the providers available for International Standard Book Number. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Additional providers curated in the Bioregistry are listed here. These are typically inherited from Identifiers.org or Prefix Commons, and need extra curation.