Abdul - I can't see many established book publishing houses publishing a series of research reports i.e. Elsevier, Wiley etc. They have to sell as much copy as they can - so the content has to appeal to a wide audience and be appealing. The most popular research texts will usually read like an 'unfolding story' describing some process from beginning to end - rather than a series of research reports. Each chapter is usually designed to precede the previous and proceed to the next - but also be relatively self-contained.
The only sources, and I might be wrong, that would perhaps publish a series of research reports/papers as a book would be those unscrupulous publishing companies who will charge you to publish. I only publish for the larger publishing houses (and they usually approach me) - so I've never been charged money to publish.
The only example that I can think of that might relate to what you are asking is my PhD was a 'PhD by Publication'. My thesis presented around 40 inter-related published research reports of mine - but I still had to write a wider 30,000 word report to link them all together and present them as that 'infolding story'. I'm still not convinced that I could get any established publishing house to publish it as it is though - especially free of charge.
Abdul - I can't see many established book publishing houses publishing a series of research reports i.e. Elsevier, Wiley etc. They have to sell as much copy as they can - so the content has to appeal to a wide audience and be appealing. The most popular research texts will usually read like an 'unfolding story' describing some process from beginning to end - rather than a series of research reports. Each chapter is usually designed to precede the previous and proceed to the next - but also be relatively self-contained.
The only sources, and I might be wrong, that would perhaps publish a series of research reports/papers as a book would be those unscrupulous publishing companies who will charge you to publish. I only publish for the larger publishing houses (and they usually approach me) - so I've never been charged money to publish.
The only example that I can think of that might relate to what you are asking is my PhD was a 'PhD by Publication'. My thesis presented around 40 inter-related published research reports of mine - but I still had to write a wider 30,000 word report to link them all together and present them as that 'infolding story'. I'm still not convinced that I could get any established publishing house to publish it as it is though - especially free of charge.
If you want to subject them to peer review, then any journal will publish them free of charge, just as long as they have been through the peer review process.
If you don't want to go down the peer review route then there is always the route to publish online, perhaps as a series of Working Papers hosted by your university?
But as Dean says above, no respectable publisher is likely to publish just a series of research reports for free. And my advice is also to avoid any publisher who wants you to pay. They are largely unscrupulous, will appeal to your vanity and extract lots of money from you for something which is unlikely to appeal to a larger audience (or they would be paying you for it!).