Hi

I have seen many students publish their thesis as a book. It is from Lambert Publishing house. As per the students who published, they found that the work is published as such in most cases. After publication it is not available as an open access material but it is sold online. You can check for yourself too. You can check for the guidelines with the publisher if you wish to do so.

As far as credibility is concerned, I don't think it is useful to publish your work as a book. Instead you should make research papers and submit it to reputed peer reviewed journals which will surely increase the scientific impact of your work.

Regards

Hi

I have seen many students publish their thesis as a book. It is from Lambert Publishing house. As per the students who published, they found that the work is published as such in most cases. After publication it is not available as an open access material but it is sold online. You can check for yourself too. You can check for the guidelines with the publisher if you wish to do so.

As far as credibility is concerned, I don't think it is useful to publish your work as a book. Instead you should make research papers and submit it to reputed peer reviewed journals which will surely increase the scientific impact of your work.

Regards

HI,

Publishing your work as a book is good, if u do a bit of generalization and needed modification and as a good piece of information. Don't keep the manuscript in the dissertation form itself do needed changes. As you are publishing your work as a book it doesn't mean you should not do publications in peer reviewed journals, you can try some development in your work and publish it as another piece of information. For book publishing - Lambert, Readers-shelf etc are there who publish your work free of cost.

Regards,

Ramaraj AP

Publishing the dissertation into a book is a good idea. When we compare the readability of book and dissertation, only few read the dissertation where as it is high when it is a book. So the following correction may be made before getting it published:

1) Remove the objectives, hypotheses, methodology, etc which are not required in book format.

2) Add some more chapters based on the target peoples. Ex. if it is going to be useful for students, please make changes to the chapters based on the curriculum of the subject in different universities.

3) Update the data in the book format. Since the data for dissertation work might have collected long back

4) Add the latest trends of the subject in the book, so that it looks like an updated manuscript.

Regards,

Dr. Venkat

I agree with Alok Nahata. You should make your work the most available as possible. My thesis is open access. If you can have it published as a book without compromising your right to post it as open access on internet, then that's great. But if you're publishing your PhD as a book, I'm guessing you're hoping a little income from the selling of this book.

I think open access for your thesis is the best bet for you, your carreer and your field of research.

As suggested by ALok Nahata, you should also try to valorize a maximum of your PhD results in published papers which will be more visible by your research field than a thesis.

I would never place a book published by Lambert Publishing house in my CV. I will show you could not publish your results in peer-reviewed journals, gave up and followed an easy way.

Very very interesting discussion...

100% agree with Henk Smid.

Here are some things I found helpful:

Finding a publisher is important for your book - they have the right connections, market it, and help you make it the best book it can be.

1. Write an abstract with a catchy title and the most important ideas - imagine a non-specialist is reading it on the train as one of many pitches.

2. In another paragraph answer questions like: Who would be interested in the book? What other book on the market is comparable to yours (2 examples)? What makes your book stand out (approach, new data, methodology...)?

3. Call publishers on the phone, give a one-sentence overview of your book and ask if they would be interested. Don't waste their time, send the abstract, book information and the manuskript if wanted. Be open, clear, reliable and flexible - this is not science, but publishing business.

4. If you have found Publishers - look up their public image on the internet. The top publishers are probably out of reach, but the cheap ones ("we publish everything") can cause you problems later on. You might want to find something in between.

5. Be clear about the money: Some publishers look priceworthy, but be sure to check, what is included in the contract. Who is doing the layout? Who is doing the corrections? And be sure to check, if you can get a publication grant from your university our some other foundation.

6. When working with an editor, be open and trust in his experience. Make the changes, hit the deadlines - start discussions ONLY if a suggested change really affects the core of your project.

7. Work on your understanding of the details of the publication process, so you can put your energy in the right spots.

Good luck!

You can publish your book with same dissertation or you can publish by editing also. while publishing your dissertation in a book, you have to delete the synopsis if it is inserted .Format of book is different than dissertation . pl. note.

I have first-hand experience from doing this, twice even. In two separate fields I wrote and published several scientific papers that were strongly linked, before I got my PhD in applied math. Afterwards, during two postdoc periods of one year each, I integrated the two respective threads of research into two monographs, by adding examples, filling in many remarks and reflections, as well as summarizing (surveying) in much more detail than what you can do in a technical paper, the related research that already was available and became available during the time i wrote the books. The resulting books were not real text books - which would have meant very much more pedagogical material, with figures, exercises, and so on - but, as I say, a bit shorter monographs, one slightly more than 100 pages, the other one longer, perhaps 300. It was quite rewarding to do, I must say.

Dear sir

it depends on the Publisher, in some case u send thesis as manuscript and the publisher edit it . on other hands, some publisher asks u to edit thesis according to an instruction to convert it to book.

hope this answer be useful 

Best regards 

Initially parts of the thesis can be published as referred journal articles (might impress the examiners as published work) and then as a book. There might be a need to make changes before it is published as a book.. Changes are required to ensure that it is easy to read the book by the general public and for them to understand it reacquires removing jargon.. In addition lengthy referencing and quotations are not necessary.

Does SAGE also publish thesis as a book? Please suggest.

Publishing a PhD (or MSc) Thesis as a book may carry some important improvements as a new opportunity to correct possible involuntary omissions at references list of works cited in thesis main text. However, is this publication as a book may bring any problem with possible university intellectual property rights?

The question is; Who owns the intellectual property right to a thesis? Of course it is the student. The other question is: Will a publisher publish a thesis as it is? As theses are available in the public domain, the publisher, except in a very rare case, may hesitate. Thesis is written for the examiners whereas a book is read by general public which requires the thesis to be substantially re-written. A student has to make a decision as to whether it is better to publish several academic articles based on a thesis or a book.

Thank you all for good recommendations. Do you have any publishing company that you trust and they can help with changing the tone of the dissertation to a book? I appreciate

To publish a book out of your thesis, you need to contact a publisher who publishes books in your subject area. They may want to see your thesis first, to see if it is worth publishing. And if that is the case, a publisher will be able to advice you accordingly i.e. what you need to do to turn you thesis into a book. This is the best way forward. I wish you best of luck.

Thank you so much Mohammed. If you know of any let me know. My research is :

Middle Eastern-North African-Southwest Asian Family Experiences with Special Education

Soraya, please try Springer publisher as I have published a book on Credit Rating Agencies with them. They are reputable publisher. You will have to fill in a book proposal.

Thank you Mohammed, very helpful.

Soraya, it was my pleasure.

PhD thesis into a book. It can be done and it is possible if the original aim is to get a PhD and also publish it as a book.

yes lambert publication can do it.

Be careful of Lambert Publication, they will publish a thesis just as it is and expect no royalty. A thesis is written for two examiners who are well versed with the topic. A book is for general consumption and so a lot of back ground information has to be given and pitched for the understanding of non-expert general public. So a thesis is not a book and vice versa.

I would be more interested in it been open access so it can contribute to the academia and benefit researchers in developing countries that usually do not have access to closed access publications. Where the publisher intends to profit from the thesis then the noble contribution to the body of knowledge is defeated.

It all depends on the quality and peer review of books published on the open access. Reputable publishers tend to claim, rightly or wrongly, that they do not make a lot of money. Writing an academic book is not easy; it requires a lot of time and effort and it may be rejected. When the book is accepted, the publisher want the copy right and pay 10 per cent (a pea nut) in royalty to an author.

Can someone please share any manuscript template file for a book?

Hi everyone,

I am a representative of an International Publishing House "Scholars' Press Publishing".

We are looking for suitable material for publication (manuscripts, dissertations and theses, monographs, course notes, articles, conference or workshops proceedings ...) in your field of study, to be evaluated for publication purposes, as we believe your research work could be of interest to a wider audience and we would be glad to consider publishing it.

Here is what we offer you:

- free of charge publication

- free ISBN

- simplified and fast publishing process

- worldwide sales of your work

- no commitments/fees

- you remain the only copyright holder of your work

- access to eco-friendly Print-on-Demand technology

We would be happy to count you among our authors.

Give more value to your work and let it be distributed worldwide through well known shops such as Amazon, Morebooks or AbeBooks.

would you consider to publish your research as a printed book and receive further details?

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Personally I would not trust Scholars' Press Publishing.

Scholars' Press Publishing is a useless/semi-scamming thing. Yes, they will "publish" your book with no editing, no nothing. Print-on-Demand means they will publish only two copies of your "book", one for you and one for your mother (who else would want to buy it?) You will pay for your copies and that's what they live on. Low life publishing for not too clever losers. No academic credibility for your "book" and in no way it will be good for your CV

So despite Ecaterina looking professional and gorgeous, we still have to be very wary? What have they published so far?

This discussion is fruitful and timely. I need to convert my PhD dissertation into a book. The dissertation had the following chapters: introduction, theoretical and literature review, methodology, results, discussion and conclusion. I there any particular rule of presenting these chapters in book format or they will appear in the same format?

Do you have an empty space on your shelf you have to fill? Dissertations "converted into books" have very little use. You can impress your mother, may be even your girlfriend. What else?

Books and Dissertation are two very different kind of publications. To really make a book from your findings, first your findings and your study should be good enough to attract attention and have utility value. First see how much traffic your dissertation can generate if you upload your work here online , wait and decide. My published books are sold on Amazon with no PDF copies -Only hardbound. That gives me money.

You are completely free to name your chapters as you wish - isn't that obvious? It's your book. But there are basic rules, of course. You need to have chapters that follow each other in a logical order, starting with things like the purpose of the book, perhaps a short summary of what the book provides for you as well. The author should describe the intended readers, and in the case of a scientific book the author needs to explain which level of expertize/knowledge the reader is expected to have before reading the book - to tell the audience what level of knowledge the book is aiming for is crucial. You should definitely tell at the start what you hope the reader will achieve and learn, and why this is a good thing. You should perhaps have small sections that summarize some of the prerequisites, so that the reader can quickly start reading, and tables of notation, contents, and a glossary is also nice to provide. At the end there should be a list of key words and phrases, sorted alphabetically, so that one can look up a term in order to quickly find the information you're looking for at the right page. Simply put: help the reader to find the information quickly. Depending on the type of book, you might have questions put at the end of each chapter, with answers at the end of the book - then it is a text book, as they say, something to perhaps use in higher education.

Simple answer, dissertation/thesis is read by two examiners with an expertise on the subject, where as a book is read by regular readers who may not have the necessary expertise. Publishers want the book to be read by as many people as possible because that is the way they make the money. Why not choose self-publishing?

Mohammed Hemraj

Nobody reads self-published dissertations. Publishers will get their money from you and your mother (most often the only buyers of the said book). It's very special publishers.

Read my reply, I did not mention self-publishing a dissertation. I had mentioned who are the audience as far as dissertations and books are concerned. A person who wants to self-publish a book has to ensure that it will be read by many. By self-publishing after a vigorous process of editing, it is possible to sell the book cheap and many will buy, compared to the high price the publishers are demanding.

And had you read what is this thread about?

Beneficial discussion...following..

Publishing one's dissertation as a book has little or no benefit than extracting articles out of it which are later submitted to peer-reviewed journals and useful to research community. One, people browse for articles than looking for a book on a topic.Two, most journals only turn this book publishing into money-making venture and most times do not make it an open access, thereby restrict access to researchers.

There are several assumptions and one of which is that the publishers make a lot of money which may not be necessarlty the truth. Thesis/dissertation are now freeely available for puiblic consumption so who would in his/her right mind buy a book entirely based on a submitted dissertation/thesis. What should not be forgotten is the aim of publishing; is it to secure a university tenure?

How about reorganizing entire chapters completely different from the conventional academic format. This should be in a way that you form book chapters.

i really don't care about the value i can get off of the research. All i want is my effort to be recognized and be made useful

Like I mentioned earlier, if the dissertation is a monograph then it should be possible - through a large amount of work, of course - to establish a monograph that you can present to a good scientific publisher. Some information at the beginning is needed in order to establish where the material came from, and how, otherwise it's just a matter of making sure that all the small errors in the PhD thesis that the opponent and the committee found will be taken care of in the final version. You maybe did not add a long list of keywords at the end - with page numbers for quick reference -, so that should be done also.

And you should go to trusted places - Springer, for example. Lambert? No, never.

I am thinking of doing the same but don't really know how to go about it. I want to publish my completed Master project in Criminology. How do I go about it?

It is better to make multiple articles or papers based on your phd thesis for better visibility and better citation. Try to write for Scopus or WOS index journals first. Updated data is required, specially for the portion of literature review portion. Based on subject try for the multidisciplinary or specific journals as target for both subscription-based or golden way of Open Access publication. DOAJ also a btter solution. Never make your data outdated; and publish, don't perish.

I honk cl vetting thesis to a book is a great idea. It’s one compact source that may accessed by other scholars, especially students.

Hi Abu M. Sufiyan,

I recommend to send your dissertation (as accepted by your faculty) to the editor of an appropriate book series. If the editor is interested, she or he will suggests changes.

Cheers

Jan

It is a waste of time and resources when anyone can download a thesis free of charge. The other issue is whether the standards of pass theses are increasing or decreasing, I have a feeling that it is decreasing. A thesis is not a book nor a book a thesis; a thesis is meant for two examiners and the book to be read by the general public.

Any issue of Plagiarism, if some chapters are published as a book chapter?

Do you mean publishing a thesis as a book chapter? The copyright of a thesis rests with the student and so there is no paradigm.

Yes, I want to make one book chapter from the first two chapters of my PhD thesis.

No problem go ahead, you have my blessing. Besides the book chapter, you can also publish as journal articles. In my case, I had published journal articles from materials that did not go into my thesis due to words constraint and also conference papers.

In fact - Mohammed Hemraj - I published a slightly updated version of my PhD dissertation as a book with a rather good publisher (Springer). So it can be done. I also wrote a few journal articles following the PhD, with some overlap between the papers and the dissertation. It was a very nice experience.

What is a "paradigm", in this context, if I may ask?

I did the same.

Can someone plz a suggest legitimate publisher where it can be easily published? Thank you

Thank you very much. That is what I am looking for, a legitimate publishing Company.

A legitimate publisher will not ask you to pay (full or part) for the cost of publishing a book and will give you a royalty (roughly 10%) from the proceeds of the sale of the books. You will have to find out who publishes the type of book you have written and then contact them with a book proposal.

Thank you,

you can publish

Scholar press

https://www.scholars-press.com/

Scholars Press, mind you, appears to only be a printing machine - the name "Repro India" does not sound like a conscientious publishing house, but only an old printing machine. :-) I could be wrong, but i doubt it.

What you need is a real and true partner at the publishing house - real, and known! - so that you can be sure to not be scammed. It is always best to talk with senior people around you, and to contact more than one or more known publishers (Springer-Verlag, for example, is one that I have published through, and they have been very good every time).

In any case, don't go for the very first publisher that you find - but find out in detail how good they are, have an e-mail conversation with a publisher in one of the good/main science publishers, so that you know how best print and market your book.

Also, It pays to not be in a hurry, so don't take the first one that you find - you would be sorry if you didn't compare a few publishers before you make up your mind.

Good Luck!

There are many publishers who can publish thesis as book. Nevertheless, you need to publish it with from a publishing house indexed by Book citation index (part of ISI, web of science), scopus etc. FURTHERMORE, I suggest to: 1) publish thesis work as peer-reviewed articles, 2) Then update and publish thesis as book with a reputable publisher. Later may go under rigorous peer review but it will have high impact in your field of specialization.

I think, Dissertations can be published as book just as Thesis.

Get real Who needs your "book"? Your mother? Then, for sure, some "publishers" can help you. Just remember: your dissertation is a (very) humble piece of somewhat scientific exercise, Not really interesting to the most of other researchers. Se la vie. Nothing personal, just an observation.

Having started my PhD studies in the Summer of 1988 I did my half-way thesis (called "the licentiate") in 1991 as a very long and technical survey on nonlinear networks. Being done with that I switched topic, so that my PhD dissertation's focus was on derivations of variational inequality tools for large systems, with lots of convergence theory. (The two topics of course have a common ground.)

I got my PhD diploma in the Summer of 1993 on that, through the writing of a monograph on nonlinear optimisation and variational inequalities, and then stayed in York (UK) as a post-doc for a few Months, working on traffic research, went back to Linköping, Sweden, to teach during the first semester of 1994, and I then re-visited York over the Summer of 1994, to finish my monograph on networks (based of course on the licentiate thesis). By invitation from prof. Terry Rockafellar (Univ. Washington) and some financial support I then re-worked my PhD dissertation in Seattle into a complete monograph in a kind of second postdoc position, and had lots of fun in the mean-time, hiking in the Cascades and almost agreeing to take Starbucks to Sweden!

In the process I also got several papers out of these years of work, and two research books.

So I would say that it is quite straightforward to take your material, and talk to a conscientious editor of an esteemed scientific publishing house, whether your material is up to par and fits the science topics of the publishing house that you contact.

Nowadays I am not able - or willing - to dedicate my time only to work and physical exercise; my family comes first, and I can safely say that I think I have done quite enough, without being ashamed. ;-)

Do you agree? ;-)

I agree with Vladimir Dusevich in that PhD theses published as books are normally "non-sellers". It is definitely more advisable to publish all important results in good journals.

I don't think turning a dissertation into a book will help the work to be seen and used by others. It is quite understandable that researchers go to articles to solve their problems and to move within the boundaries of science. Although one also refers to books to understand the basics of science, what is done in dissertations is to move within the boundaries of science, and in order to apply the results as quickly as possible, they should be published in reputable journals, not books.

I disagree: both my books referred to above have sold a whole lot and become cited well, too; it also gave me tremendous feedback, new science friends, and invitations to conferences as well as opportunities to do research over country borders. I am all for it, and would definitely do it again. In fact I did it again a couple of years ago. The books have been used in PhD courses, and I also wrote a few papers based on the notes that I had efter finishing those books; both the books and the articles are well-cited, too. I see no problem at all - and I have had no bad feedback - quite the contrary.

Michael Patriksson , but you did not understand what this thread is about. It is about predatory publishing companies (like Lambert Publishing) who will publish anything submitted with proper formatting, with no editing, no reviewing, no nothing. They will print on demand and sell a few copies - two or three to author (so that author could proudly present them to his supervisor and his girlfriend), and to author's mother. That's it. These publishers advertise themselves as "a leading academic book publishing company specializes in making your theses, dissertations, and research projects available worldwide." I would advise against putting such "books" into CV because it clearly shows that an author is dumb enough to be proud of such a publication.

The general perception about a book is that they are just textbooks. This is wrong.

I totally agree with Professor Michael Patriksson. Books are not just textbooks or classroom books. There are different kinds of books meant for different audiences and purposes in the academia or industry. A book can be research focused with an explicit description of the subject, tools used and the outcome of the study. This kind of book is not just an ordinary book that an author sits in one place to write. It is a combination of fieldwork experiences and literature. This is where the PhD thesis perfectly fits in. And who said that you cannot make some articles out of your thesis and still publish it as a book. This kind of book sells a lot and this is what the vanity press are looking for. You will be surprised about the type of citation you will have if you publish it where it will be visible. I am happy that Professor Michael Patriksson is writing based on his experiences.

For that, a more comprehensive review is required to add upon.

Dear Chukwuebuka Egbuna , your shameless advertising of vanity press is rather unusual thing. For those who wants to know more on a subject:

https://beallslist.net/vanity-press/#:~:text=Vanity%20press%20is%20a%20type,no%20quality%20control%20is%20done.

I fully agree with Vladimir Dusevich in that publishing a PhD thesis "as is" by a dubious publisher has no benefits to anybody. Nobody will ever buy or cite such a "fake book". This has nothing to do with the example given by Michael Patriksson who used his PhD thesis as the basis for "real" book projects.

Dear Vladimir Dusevich I am surprised by your comment. I never advertised any vanity press. I have never published with them and will never recommend it to anyone. Please kindly retract your statement.

Interesting arguments. Now I understand. I would never in my life give away a manuscript to a crooked publisher.

Dear Chukwuebuka Egbuna this is what you wrote: This kind of book sells a lot and this is what the vanity press are looking for.

Dear Prof. Frank T. Edelmann ohh I think it was misunderstood. It is not a direct statement in support of vanity press. No. The statement is in reference that books made out of PhD thesis don't sell. So I am making an argument that If it doesn't sell, then why are vanity press looking for it (Particularly PhD thesis). If you go through my statement again, you will see where I said "if you publish it where it will be visible". Where it will be visible means with good press with robust databases and indexing services. But even if I have recommended a vanity press, as a Professor can you justify the use of his word "shameless". I think scientists should begin to change their perception about information sharing in a modern world. That you have done it well and achieved a lot doesnt mean you can sit on everyone or people wouldnt surpass what you have achieved. His comment is not okay to me.

Dear Chukwuebuka Egbuna thanks for the clarification!

You are welcome dear Prof. Frank T. Edelmann

Sincere regards,

Egbuna

I agree with the opinion Alok Nahata

I agree with dr. Frank T.Edelmann

Good choice will be to publish paper based on dissertation work.

I fully agree with Omar H. Abdalla

Dear Omar H. Abdalla

Lap lambert , Noor publishing and many more publish your thesis as a book. The thesis book may then be used as basis and reference for your papers and future researches.

Dear Abdolrasoul Ranjbaran if the PhD thesis is published as a book first. you could encounter copyright / plagiarism problems when submitting the manuscripts,

Dear All,

Herein some useful links & websites for publishing a dissertation as a book.

https://www.lap-publishing.com/

https://phdlife.warwick.ac.uk/2014/03/16/getting-your-thesis-published/

https://www.postgrad.com/uk_thesis_publishing/

http://www.lulu.com/blog/2012/04/publishing-your-thesis-with-lulu/#sthash.RomcIhuT.dpbs

http://www.grin.com/en/help/author

http://www.proquest.com/products-services/dissertations/submitting-dissertation-proquest.html

http://www.apa.org/gradpsych/2006/03/dissertation.aspx

My Regards

Dear Frank T. Edelmann thank you for your comment. After you defend your thesis, then you can publish it as a book. You may mention the source. Because you are not going to receive a new degree there is no problem.

Most of publishing companies that I mentioned first were designed to publish the thesis as a book.

Once I published part of my thesis as a chapter in a 5 chapters collected book.

Publisher may do some minor editing related to design and book requirements. Content could be still the same though.

In fact, a dissertation is an academic work that proves the student's right to engage in science. Therefore, publishing a dissertation is a strange idea, on the verge of narcissism. When writing a book, first of all, you need to think about the addressee, who will be interested in this book? These are not members of the academic council, who often evaluate not the work of a dissertation candidate, but the personality of his leader ... The purpose of the book is different: to generalize and present the results of own research to a much wider public. Moreover, reputable publishers are interested in publishing of works of well-known researchers, and not student exercises.