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

Prefix

isbn

Alternative Prefixes

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

Keywords

bibliography

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

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 Identifier

9781584885658   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 CURIE

isbn:9781584885658

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 7 mappings to external registries for this resource 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 9781584885658 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.