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This page links to catalogs of libraries, booksellers, and other book sources where you will be able to search for the book with ISBN. If you arrived at this page by clicking an ISBN number link in a Wikipedia page, then the links below (those labeled "find this book") search for the specific book using that ISBN number. Enter another ISBN number in the ISBN search form to change the search links below. Spaces and dashes in the ISBN number do not matter. Note: The number starts after the colon for "ISBN-10:" and "ISBN-13:" numbers. 

Note

  • An ISBN identifies a specific edition of a book. Any given title may therefore have a number of different ISBNs. See xISBN below for finding other editions.
  • An ISBN registration, even one corresponding to a book page on a major book distributor database, is not definite proof that such a book actually exists. A title may have been cancelled or postponed after the ISBN was assigned. Both ISBN and other registration have been abused in attempted hoaxes on Wikipedia in the past, so check to see if the book exists or not.
  • The master copy of this page is located at Wikidata:Book sources.

Online text

For verifying w:citations in Wikipedia articles, and finding more info. These sites can search within some books, and show some or all pages of some books. See digital libraries also.

Online databases

Metasearch engines for online databases

  • Find this book at Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog, metasearch engine addressing many of the databases linked here, including all national libraries as above, and also some major commercial booksellers.

General search engines

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Bibliographical information

Libraries

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University


China, People's Republic

w:Hong Kong, S.A.R. of China

w:India

w:Iran

Universities and colleges
Public libraries

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w:Japan

w:Korea

w:Macau, S.A.R. of China

w:Philippines

w:Singapore

w:Taiwan, Republic of China

w:Thailand

w:Australasia and w:Oceania

w:Australia

w:New Zealand

Public libraries
Academic libraries
Special libraries (research libraries)

w:Europe

w:Austria

w:Belgium

w:Bulgaria

  • Find this book on the National Library [6] Online Bibliographic search {website instructions in Bulgarian, catalogue search in any language)
  • Find this book on the

Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski" Library w:Sofia University Online catalogue

Central Research and Technical Library Online Bibliographic search (in English)

w:American University in Bulgaria Online catalogue

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w:Finland

w:France

w:Germany

w:Greece

w:Hungary

w:Iceland

w:Ireland

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w:Romania

w:Russia

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w:Slovakia

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w:Spain

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w:Switzerland

w:Turkey

w:United Kingdom

Public libraries
Universities

Book swapping websites

Booksellers

Price comparison sites

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Search many individual booksellers

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Individual online booksellers

Electronic Reference Library

Lists of book sources focused on other languages

The links under the language names displayed on the table below are driving to other book sources available on other linguistic editions of Wikipedia.

  • All the existing ISBN-10 prefixes are also remapped into ISBN-13 using the "978-" EAN/UCC prefix for all new publications, and this EAN space is still the one used by most publishers.
  • Newer prefixes, used only in ISBN-13, have already started to be allocated into the "979-" EAN/UCC prefix.
ISBN Prefix Ranges Wikipedia
0
1
English
(this page)
2
979-10
French
3 German
4 (Japan) Japanese
5 (Russia, former USSR) Russian
7 (China, PR)
957/986 (Taiwan, ROC)
962/988 (Hong Kong, SAR)
981 (Singapore)
99937 (Macau, SAR)
Chinese
80 (Czech Republic) Czech
83 (Poland) Polish
84 (Spain)
950 (Argentina)
956 (Chile)
958 (Colombia)
959 (Cuba)
968/970 (Mexico)
980 (Venezuela)
Spanish
85 (Brasil)
972 (Portugal)
Portuguese
86 (Serbia, Montenegro) Serbian
86 (former Yugoslavia)
953 (Croatia)
Croatian
86 (former Yugoslavia)
961 (Slovenia)
Slovenian
87 Danish
88 Italian
89 Korean
ISBN Prefix Ranges Wikipedia
90 Dutch
91 Swedish
92 International organizations (multilingual)
93 (India) Hindi
93 (India)
955 (Sri Lanka)
Tamil
951/952 (Finland) Finnish
953 Bulgarian
955 (Sri Lanka) Sinhalese
960 Greek
963 Hungarian
964/600 (Iran) Persian
965 (Israel) Hebrew
966 (Ukraine) Ukrainian
967 (Malaysia) Malay
969 (Pakistan) Pashto
971 (Philippines) Tagalog
973 (Romania) Romanian
974 (Thailand) Thai
975/9944/605 (Turkey) Turkish
976 (Caribbean Community) See English, Spanish...
977 (Egypt)
978 (Nigeria)
9960/603 (Saudi Arabia)
9931/9947/9961(Algeria)
Arabic
979 (Indonesia) Indonesian
982 (South Pacific) See English, French, ...
984 (Bangladesh) Bangla
Welsh

A complete list of the ISBN prefix ranges is available on the official ISBN web site.

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