Scholarly books and their evaluation context in the social sciences and humanities

The aim was to elicit a variety of research topics: scholarly book publishing, publisher prestige, quality and specialization, open accessmonographs, e-books, original language vs translated monographs, peer review standardsand labels, commercial databases for books, national registries, books in social media andalternative metrics. This catalog is by no means exhaustive. Our impetus was simply toinvite researchers to examine the special nature of books, which, thanks to Gutenberg'spress, have become widespread vehicles for sharing ideas and knowledge.