The function of the Czech National Agency for ISBN and ISMN (CNA ISBN and ISMN) is performed by the National Library of the Czech Republic according to the Library Act (see also §9 (2) (c) of Act No. 257/2001 Coll.)
Who can use the CNA ISBN and ISMN services
The CNA ISBN and ISMN provides support at the national level mainly to:
- legal and natural persons established in the Czech Republic publishing books and/or e-books and/or audiobooks, sheet music and/or e-sheet music,
- libraries cataloguing books, e-books, audiobooks, music and e-music.
For the provision of services to natural persons, it is irrelevant whether they have an ID number or not.
CNA ISBN and ISMN services
- Administratively administers and manages the ISBN and ISMN systems at the national level.
- It assigns publisher identifiers to publishing entities registered in the ISBN and ISMN systems.
- It builds and manages the Directory of Publishers in the Czech Republic (NAK) containing a register of assigned publisher identifiers.
- Assigns, on request, individual ISBNs to books, e-books and audiobooks published in the ISBN system by non-registered entities and individual ISMNs to music books and e-music published in the ISMN system by non-registered entities.
- It manages the database of notified books, sheet music, cartographic materials and audiobooks (ISN) and notified e-books, e-sheet music and e-audiobooks (ISN-e).
- It assigns individual ISBNs for retrospective numbering of books published without ISBNs and individual ISMNs for retrospective numbering of music published without ISMNs.
- It provides a replacement ISBN for books published with a duplicate number and a replacement ISMN for music books published with a duplicate number.
ISBN-registered publishers number books published from their ISBN set, and ISMN-registered publishers number music books published from their ISMN set.
Related resources
- ISBN system rules: ISO 2108.
- ISMN System rules: ISO 10957.
- Act on Non-Periodical Publications: Act No. 37/1995 Coll. (in Czech)
- Required information in the book and in the music book: https://www.nkp.cz/sluzby/sluzby-pro/isbn-ismn-issn/tiraz-vzor (in Czech)
- The assigned ISBN and ISMN are registered in the databases of the National Library of the Czech Republic.
- The assigned publisher identifiers are recorded in the Directory of Publishers in the Czech Republic (NAK). Once a year, updates are sent to the Global Register of Publishers (GRP), managed by the International ISBN Agency in London, and updates to the Music Publishers’ International ISMN Database, managed by the International ISMN Agency in Berlin.
Contact
National Library of the Czech Republic
Czech National Agency for ISBN and ISMN
Klementinum 190
110 00 Praha 1
IČ 00023221
Correspondence address:
Sodomkova 1146/2
102 00 Praha 15 – Hostivař
| For ISBN | For ISMN |
| E-mail: isbn@nkp.cz | E-mail: ismn@nkp.cz |
| Phone: 221 663 306 (information about books with ISBN), 221 663 173 (publisher registration) | Phone: 221 663 311 (information about printed music with ISMN), 221 663 173 (publisher registration) |