Well, as they do not take money from you, at least for standard services, it's a small risk. If your book will have already published work, you should check copyright issues with previous publishers.
I too have received the offer from Eliva Press and I, along with an expert team of chapter writers, am writing a full book for it. Must see how things go.
Demisu Zenbaba Same to me, I recieved a similar invitation for publishing, I went through reddit to find some answers, and they all are the same. It seems that the publisher is legit and it's not part of the predatory publishers. I guess it's more about your time and effort you want to put in publishing your book. My appreciation is that you can write a book that summarises the work done on your research field.
Sahar Shah thank you for sharing the information. Can you tell us a bit more about your experience. And one more thing, can you say that this invitation would be good for you PhD disertation but no for further research?
Sahar Shah, i just submitted my book last week, ELIVA PRESS say can get publish within 7 till 14 days? I am waiting on it. i agree that publish at book(another way) can increase the visibility factor for your thesis, i also want my research more visibility , that is why i also sent for publish. we do research so hard, sure want more visibility if can.
I have also received an invitation to publish my thesis but I was not sure whether or not to give out my paper as it was a research thesis, under my university supervisor, who is also on my declaration. Any thoughts on this?
Sabrina Colombo , so far now, i no pay fee for my first book publication . my second book will be publish for coming 9 to 17 days as they tell me, so far is also free.
I and my co-author Mayukh Mukhopadhyay have our book "Five Shades of Emerging Business Cases" published by Eliva Press. Book Link: https://www.elivapress.com/en/book/book-8905242128/
Our book has also been catalogued by Zenodo, a general-purpose open-access repository developed under the European (EU) OpenAIRE program and operated by CERN. Link: https://zenodo.org/record/5646931#.YYfy87rhXIV
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5646931
Our book is also available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/163648395X
It is a nice and pleasant experience to publish our works with Eliva Press, they are not predatory in any means.
I have also received an invitation to publish from Eliva Press, but I declined because the paper is already submitted to a refereed journal and is currently under review.
This is interesting, as I have just had an email from Eliva Press too. It's hardly good practice to republish material in a book that is already published elsewhere.
Thank you for the question and your answers. I just landed here with the same question and was very irritated to be offered to republish content already published as open access.
May I just say I was also offered the same. I don't know what I should be doing. I just intended to post my material for everyone's reading (as an open access). I don't know why they were interested to republish it.
They made it possible for e to write exactly the book I wanted without any costs. Very pleasant experience. Take a look at: https://www.amazon.com/Crime-NO-punishment-Thoughts-Performance-Enhancing/dp/1636486010/ref=sr_1_2?crid=15RM9H4UQ3UDY&keywords=kjetil+haugen&qid=1663328297&sprefix=%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-2
I am a 1rst year PhD Student and I also received emails from them calling me Dr and asking me if I am agree to publish my thesis with them (while it don't ever exist!) I don't trust them.
It's highly unethical to publish already published work in another journal. Yes they might not be found on any predatory list but let's be careful of such publishers
I recently got contacted by them as well about an abstract presented at a conference about 5 days ago (pretty fast). My perception from the research I've done on them is that they're a small publishing house looking for growth, which is why they're reaching out to so many scientists. I didn't find anything compromising about them (but there isn't much good information either). Regarding the republication of papers already published in scientific journals, that's a choice of the author (although knowing that the proposal affects the reputation of the company you are associating your name with). My opinion is: this specific title they mentioned is already under review in another journal and I have no interest in republishing anything. But as an author I have the option of rewriting the content in chapter format, completely changing its scope by adding new information, as an example. After all, I own the knowledge I'm developing and the research continues, so I have a lot more information to use. I'm not saying I'll say yes because I'm still thinking about it, and I've always thought that if I ever published a book, it would be with a bigger publisher. But after seeing the experience of some of you who have happily published your own work with them, it's a matter of what and how you choose to reframe your work in a book form. It's also a matter of how much you have to lose by giving your content to the publisher. Thank you all for your contributions, they helped me a lot and I will keep thinking about it.
fyi - as a senior lurching toward retirement, this was my reply:
Hi. Your new outfit is the topic of some discussion among researchers who have been approached to republish articles as book chapters.
I really think it's a bad idea to republish original research as is, unless it's going into a compendium of very special or classical works in honor of something or someone.
There would be some justification for including this material in a review volume vetted by credentialled scientific editors with a well articulated theme, plus a strategy for reviewing these chapters in some way, but I don't see that this is what is being proposed.
The downside to writing review chapters for books is that they often don't appear in scientific index searches, they're dreadfully expensive, and they can't be downloaded as separate publications or pdfs. Not only are they then pretty inaccessible, but they get lost in the literature and have little positive career impact for authors.
Having served for nearly 40 years as an author, reviewer, journal editor and online encyclopedia editor for Elsevier, Springer, Science/AAAS and some other major houses, I am tired of us scientists being used for publishers' profit, when we're the ones doing the actual research, writing, and reviewing - often while being gaslighted or scammed by publishers and their managing editors (Not to mention editorial software and portals so badly designed they make me want to chew off one of my hands.) There are a number of movements afoot to wriggle out of the status quo and make us the beneficiaries rather than the grunt workers, as I'm sure you're aware.
I've pretty much decided that the next time I write something for publication (unless it's for the US National Institutes of Health), the publisher is going to have to actually compensate me.
I'm sure you'll understand this perspective - maybe you can think of some radical new strategies for developing your new imprint that reflect more progressive ways of rewarding writers.
I have just received invitational email from Eliva Print based on my recently published article in the Journal of Menopausal Medicine. I am considering writing an entirely new academic book using their platform.
Kindly be careful, most unsolicited requests for a publication of previously published may be "predatory" especially when it involves you making payment.
The same occurs with me. My most recent article was published TODAY and I received the invitation from Eliva Press this morning! I agree with Donna Holmes
Eliva Press is most probably a Moldova based publisher. I've also received such kind of email that they wanted to publish my research work as a book and ready to give 50% royalty to the author and also giving copyright and ISBN to each book published as per the mail. I am not sure they are doing the same as written or not!