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,

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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.