A "professional book" presents original results of a study perfomed by the author of the book of a team of authors including the author. The book is a non-periodical professional publication of the range of at least 50 printed pages of the actual text, not including photographs, pictures or maps, etc., published in the printed form or electronically, and reviewed by at least one generally recognized expert from the relevant discipline in the form of a lecturer`s assessment (though not from the workplace of the team of authors). The book relates to an exactly defined problem of a particular scientific discipline containing a formulation of an identifiable and scientifically recognized methodology (explicitly formulated methodological bases even in monographs resulting in applications, and/or formulations of new methodologies based on existing theoretical studies in the relevant area. Formal attributes of a professional book are references to the literature in the text, the list of the references used (or notes (comments) and bibliography of sources), and a summary in at least one world language. The book has been assigned an ISBN or ISMN code. The whole book is created by a unified team of authors (regardless the individual members` participation in the content of the book), even if the individual chapters were written by individual authors independently). Professional books include e.g. monographs, scientifically processed encyclopedias and lexicons, critical editions of sources, critical editions of artistic materials (musical materials, materials of fine arts, etc.) accompanied by a study, published theses meeting parameters of a professional book, which are not based on studies of the Jimp, JSC, JOST types, critical commented translation of demanding philosophical, historical or philological and similar texts, a scientifically designed bilingual dictionaries and a professional monolingual dictionaries, critical catalogues of exhibitions, etc., if they meet criteria. Professional books do not include: - books which have no ISBN and possibly no ISMN; - learning texts (i.e. textbooks, university textbooks), unless they represent the result of an original educational study; - professional assesments and points of view, studies, translations, manuals, information and advertising publications, almanacs (except for those meeting the requirements for a professional book), annual or similar periodical reports; - published theses based on studies of the Jimp, JSC, JOST types with a comment (annotation) and an ISBN code; - common bilingual dictionaries; - summaries professional studies written for a special purpose (e.g. within one institution);
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