Turkey

The ISBN Agency for Turkey has been operating since 1987. It is located at the General Directorate of Libraries, Ministry of Culture in Ankara.

Contact Address

ISBN Türkiye Ajansý
Kültür ve Turizm Bakanligi
Kütüphaneler ve Yayýmlar
Genel Müdürlüðü
Attn.: Dr. Mehmet Demir
Necatibey Cad. No 55
06440 Sýhhýye Ankara

Tel: (+90 312) 232 27 60
Fax: (+90 312) 232 27 64
E-mail: isbn@kultur.gov.tr
URL: http://www.kutuphanelergm.gov.tr

Statistics:

Basic information

1. What percentage of the total number of publishers in the country does this represent?

The total number of the publishers that are related to the ISBN Agency of Turkey is 8542. They fall into the following categories: Writer/publisher: 4347 (51%); Publishing house/Company: 2973, (35%); Foundation/Association: 881 (10%); Institution/Organization: 180 (2%); University: 85 (1%); Other: 69 ( 1%); Newspapers: 7.

2. Achievement of total numbering, i.e. are all books numbered yet?

Since Turkey began allocating numbers in 1987, ISBNs have been given to 135.240 publications in total. In 2002 16.448 publications received ISBNs. The ratio of the number of books with ISBNs to the total number of the books published is almost 90-95%.

3. Approximately what percentage of books listed in the major book lists or bibliographies of the country carry ISBNs?

Due to the increase in the usage of ISBN in the recent years, ISBNs, as well as identity disks have also been attributed to scientific works.The usage of ISBN is increasing very fast in the web-based sales, in the catalogues of publishing houses and in book promotion issues.

4. Is bar coding used in your country?

The publication field has been world-wide due to the growth in computer technology and also in our country the usage of bar coding is becoming more widespread between the publishing houses. Bar coding is also used in the authorized public libraries

5. How much interest is there in ISBNs for non-book material?

The usage of ISBN for non-book materials is increasing fast. In the year 2001, ISBN were given to 69 CDs, to 38 cassettes, to 6 book+CD and to 5 electronic publications.

(December 2003)

Further information

In the first years of the application, the publishers gave the numbers to themselves, but since the publishers have not sent the necessary information back to us, the information is now kept in the Agency. Since 1998, the information of the publications of the publishing houses who have joined the system are kept in MARC format due to the information they give. We are cooperating with the National Library in the subject of preparing the National Bibliography.

Also, to make the publishers more conscious about ISBN, the 4th edition of the ISBN User's Guide published by the ISBN International Center has been translated to Turkish, and it is ready to all our users in the General Directorate of Libraries web page; http://www.kutuphanelergm.gov.tr

In addition to this, all the information kept about the publishing houses and their publications can be accessed by publishers, universities, libraries and investigators in our web site.

A new web based project that can serve the publishers has started under the name of General Directorate of Libraries.

In order to lessen the unused numbers, starting from August 2002, assigning ISBN from the group of thousands that is separated for the writers/publishers will start.

The ISBN Agency of Turkey, is always in communication with the publishers in the system. The requests of ISBN that reach us either by phone, by fax or e-mail are sent to publishers.

(2002)