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The International ISBN Agency

Easily recognisable as the identifier for all kinds of books, the International Standard Book Number is key to an efficient and effective book supply chain.

The International ISBN Agency is the registration authority for the Standard on a global basis. 

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  • Global Reach, Local Insights
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    Global Reach, Local Insights Using book ISBNs to map publishing behaviour

    A Lithuanian researcher, Eleonora Dagiene, has recently written a blog about her research into how and why some scholarly publications are evaluated differently, sometimes due to factors such as perceived prestige of the publisher rather than the quality of the research.

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  • ISBN Annual General Meeting takes place in Rabat
    The logo of BNRM: a blue circle inside which is the white outline of a book

    The logo of BNRM

    The 2023 Annual General Meeting took place on 12 and 13 September in Rabat, Morocco. This was the second in-person meeting following a two-year hiatus during the Covid pandemic. The meeting welcomed 47 delegates representing mostly ISBN agencies across the world, with people from key publishing industry organisations also present.

    The meeting was hosted by the Bibliotheque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc (the National Library of Morocco), which runs the ISBN Agency and which worked so hard to produce and lively and interesting Annual General Meeting (AGM). We…

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