Registry NCBI Bookshelf

The NCBI Bookshelf provides free online access to books and documents in life science and healthcare. Search, read, and discover.

Prefix

ncbibook

Links

Homepage

Contact

Missing Contact

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in NCBI Bookshelf should match this regular expression:
^NBK\d+$

Example Local Unique Identifier

NBK331 Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from NCBI Bookshelf should match this regular expression:
^ncbibook:NBK\d+$

Example CURIE

ncbibook:NBK331

Contributors

submitter Charles Tapley Hoyt 0000-0003-4423-4370 cthoyt

Providers

Suggest

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 NBK331 is used to demonstrate the providers available for NCBI Bookshelf. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name	Metaprefix	URI
NCBI Bookshelf	`ncbibook`	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK331
Bioregistry	`bioregistry`	https://bioregistry.io/ncbibook:NBK331

This name annotation was originally annotated in Bioregistry and is redistributed under the CC0 license.

Get the name:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_name("ncbibook")
'NCBI Bookshelf'

Get the homepage:

>>> import bioregistry as br
>>> br.get_homepage("ncbibook")
'https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books'