ISBN vs PID: What Publishers Mean by Persistent Identifiers

ISBN vs PID

The question “ISBN or PID?” begins with a category error. An ISBN is one specific international identifier for monographic book products. A persistent identifier, or PID, is a broader concept: a durable reference used to identify a resource or entity across systems and over time. DOI, Handle, ARK, URN, ORCID iD, and ROR ID are […]