Can I publish a book out of my already published papers?
I mean, by gathering and compiling some of my related papers into a book form, without modifying them!
1- Would be any problem with that?
2- can you suggest a good place for that!
Please, share your experience and knowledge in this topic for the whole scientific community benefit :)
Many thanks for everyone in advance,
A.A.
Yes, you can do so. But you will need permission from the copywrite holder. You can make a book proposal to a publisher. They usually have forms on their website to do so.
Good Luck in your publication.
Yes, you may turn your published papers into a book having the requires copyright. you have you must consider the following items:
1. The audience of a published paper is much different from a book.
2. The structure of a book, usually a chapter structure.
3. You must change the stuff with the manual style of the publisher. That is, you may have used APA style to cite and give references, but the publisher may use MLA or other styles.
5. You need to use data visualization to add pictures, illustrations, maps, tables, graphs, etc. to better visualize your thoughts and ideas.
6. In case the book is going to be a text for academicians, you must add the goals of each chapter, cases, questions, introduction, references for further reading, glossary, index, or other parts recommended by the publisher.
You may publish it from KDP, GRIN, ELIVA and even with you can publish it from Lambert Publishing House.
Regards,
Lall B. Ramrattan and Ajit Singh have already given useful recommendations. However, I do not recommend to work with Lambert Publishing House. See these discussions:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Opinion-required-on-Lambert-Academic-Publication-is-it-okay-to-publish-thesis-through-them
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_it_worth_publishing_with_Lambert_Academic_publishers
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Can_I_trust_to_publish_in_LAP_LAMBERT_Academic_Publishing
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Lambert_Academic_publishers_Truth_or_falsehood
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is-LAP-LAMBERT-Academic-Publishing-is-an-authentic-publisher
Please be also warned that for very special books all or most publishers demand a printing cost subsidy which you have to pay. It depends on how the publisher see the prospects for selling the book. Predatory publishers take the money and do no care about quality and about selling the book. The quality and the costs of various publishers are very different.
The idea of compiling similar papers as a book is noble from the perspective of the users or readers. As long as one complies with the original copyright arrangements with the publishers, there should not be issues. I have heard that many newly published papers may not be allowed by original publishers due to likely interference with their business. Thank you
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