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Raja Rammohun Roy National Agency for ISBN is an Indian government agency which is the only ISBN agency which run under Ministry of Education, Government of India. [1] It was founded in January 1985 [2] to facilitate authors and publishers to register for ISBN in India. [3]
The ISBN-13 check digit, which is the last digit of the ISBN, must range from 0 to 9 and must be such that the sum of all the thirteen digits, each multiplied by its (integer) weight, alternating between 1 and 3, is a multiple of 10. As ISBN-13 is a subset of EAN-13, the algorithm for calculating the check digit is exactly the same for both.
In 2007, the length of an ISBN changed from 10 to 13 digits, and a new 3-digit prefix (978 or 979) was added in front of 10-digit ISBNs. [2] The following registration groups are compatible with or without a 978- prefix:
ISBNs for books published in India are available free of cost from the Raja Rammohan Roy National Agency for ISBN, [4] and since April 2016, online applications have to be made for the same. According to Kitaab.org [ 5 ] "the agency claims to have issued ISBNs to 19,000 publishers since it was introduced in the country, in 1985."
The Ministry of Education (MoE) is a ministry of the Government of India, responsible for the implementation of the National Policy on Education. [2] The ministry is further divided into two departments: the Department of School Education and Literacy, which deals with primary, secondary and higher secondary education, adult education and literacy, and the Department of Higher Education, which ...
The court nullified the ban and asked the government to return all copies to the publisher. The state government challenged the High Court in the Supreme Court. On 16 September 1976, Supreme Court declared the ban to be illegal. However, the government ignored the court decisions and managed to stop sales of the book, until 1995.
To search for a different book, type that book's individual ISBN into this ISBN search box. Spaces and hyphens in the ISBN do not matter. Also, the number starts after the colon for "ISBN-10:" and "ISBN-13:" numbers. An ISBN identifies a specific edition of a book. Any given title may therefore have a number of different ISBNs.
The National Informatics Centre Services Inc. (NIC) is an Indian government department under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). [4] [5] [6] The NIC provides infrastructure, IT Consultancy, IT Services including but not limited to architecture, design, development and implementation of IT Systems to Central Government Departments and State Governments, helping in ...