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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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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The welcome to the 2024 AGM
On Tuesday 24 and Wednesday 25 September 2024, the International ISBN Agency held its Annual General Meeting. The venue for this year's event was the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand building in Paris, France.
We enjoyed a very successful, informative and well-attending meeting, and our thanks must firstly go to colleagues at AFNIL, which runs the ISBN agency for France and which organised the AGM. Their hard work in arranging all aspects of the meeting was a…
