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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 MAGICNUMBER.
Notes[edit]
- Use Special:Booksources to manually search on an ISBN.
- Learn how to bypass this page and go to the same book source every time.
- An ISBN identifies a specific edition of a book, and 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.
- The master copy of this page is located at Wiktionary:Book sources.
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Online databases[edit]
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Bibliographical information[edit]
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Libraries[edit]
Worldwide[edit]
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Africa[edit]
South Africa[edit]
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Asia[edit]
Hong Kong[edit]
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Philippines[edit]
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Taiwan[edit]
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Australasia[edit]
Australia[edit]
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New Zealand[edit]
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Public libraries[edit]
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Europe[edit]
- (also see The European Library)
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Austria[edit]
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Belgium[edit]
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Bosnia and Herzegovina[edit]
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Croatia[edit]
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Czech Republic[edit]
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Denmark[edit]
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Estonia[edit]
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Finland[edit]
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France[edit]
- fr.isbn search engine by title, keyword, author and ISBN.
- Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève Paris (catalogue closed each night from 23 h 30 to 1 h 30). Alternative link[1].
Germany[edit]
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Greece[edit]
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Hungary[edit]
Ireland[edit]
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Italy[edit]
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Lithuania[edit]
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Republic of Macedonia[edit]
Montenegro[edit]
Netherlands[edit]
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Norway[edit]
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Poland[edit]
Portugal[edit]
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Romania[edit]
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Sweden[edit]
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United Kingdom[edit]
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Public libraries[edit]
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United States[edit]
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Public libraries[edit]
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Universities and colleges[edit]
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