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Don't forget PhD2Published can always advise on these things - we've written about these types of presses in the past. http://www.phd2published.com Charlotte On 18/07/2013 09:57, "marc garrett" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >wow, Ken... > >As someone who is enjoying the pain of writing a PhD at present, this >kind of information is priceless. > >Wishing you well. > >marc > >www.furtherfield.org > >> Friends, >> >> Several queries from recent PhD graduates occasion a warning about two >>publishing firms that exist primarily to publish PhD thesis projects in >>a print-on-demand basis while encumbering copyright. These are Lambert >>Academic Publishing and Verlag Dr Mueller. Lambert is an operation that >>exists to publish theses under circumstances adverse to the authors. >>Their business model is so troubling that I personally see it as nearly >>fraudulent ‹ they trawl the web sites of all universities looking for >>thesis projects, and they send enthusiastic invitations to every author. >>VDM has a number of imprints, but none of these gives authors any >>serious impact or visibility. >> >> The Swinburne Research web site tells the story Š We put this up a few >>years ago as we discovered that every one of our PhD graduates was >>getting these letters, as were our staff who had recently graduated >>elsewhere. >> >> >>http://www.research.swinburne.edu.au/researchers/resources/lap-publishing >>/ >> >> Oddly, I was thinking about LAP just last week. I noticed that the text >>of our page is missing one important set of facts, so I proposed that we >>add >> >> "German and European universities that require book publication to >>confer the PhD generally publish the thesis book within the university >>as part of the PhD program. The university absorbs the cost and produces >>the book. In North America, research universities require students to >>deposit a copy of the PhD thesis with ProQuest Dissertation Publishing. >>This is deemed to meet the publication requirement. In all cases, the >>author retains full copyright. These publications involve limited press >>runs or print-on-demand or microform publication at ProQuest. Journals >>and academic publishers do not therefore deem these thesis publications >>to constitute prior publication to the detriment of articles or books. >>In contrast, publishing with LAP or VDM raises copyright problems, while >>publishing a title with a commercial press renders the text >>unpublishable by journals or by other publishers." >> >> While many European universities require that the thesis be published >>as a book, it is the common practice for almost all universities to >>maintain a thesis series published under the aegis of the university, or >>of the faculty, for this purpose. This was difficult or impossibly >>expensive in the old days of hot-lead type, a fact that delayed the >>award for many students or made it impossible for poor students. This is >>no longer the case. Since the shift to photomechanical typesetting and >>offset printing in the 1960s, universities took this on. Costs dropped >>even further in the era of desktop publishing and rapid offset print >>production. Many universities print somewhere between 100 and 300 copies >>of the thesis. Copies are often given away free to those who attend the >>PhD defence or disputation in universities where this is a public >>occasion. This is already a larger press run with greater circulation >>that either LAP or VDM, and full copyright belongs to the author ‹ with >>the occasional exception of some forms of funded research. >> >> In North America, all accredited research universities require students >>to submit a copy of the thesis to ProQuest, the former University >>Microfilms International UMI. This is deemed to constitute publication >>for the purposes of university requirements. Students retain full >>copyright. This is publication of the thesis in final approved form. >>This is an academic documentation service where only a few copies of the >>thesis tend to be sold. The microform or digital sales tend to be on the >>order of the number of units that LAP or VDM might sell - ProQuest won't >>pay royalties, but at the low level of sales, neither do LAP or VDM. But >>at ProQuest, the author retains full copyright, and the thesis offprint >>is not deemed a publication. As a result, these publications do not make >>it impossible for students to transform the thesis into journal articles >>or booklength monographs. >> >> There is a bit of debate on these issues at the Chronicle of Higher >>Education: >> >> >>http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,61017.msg1322018.html#msg1322 >>018 >> >> >>http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php?ChronicleUser=6b4v5l6dffo0lpdf5r6fj >>f7776&/topic,45997.0.ht >> >> As one commentator notes, if you have been published by LAP or VDM, you >>should take the citation OFF your CV. It doesn't help. Rather, it works >>against you. >> >> There are many good publishers. One way to look at publishers to >>evaluate them is by using Norway's national research publishing web >>site. Go to the advanced search functions on the system at URL: >> >> http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/?search=advanced >> >> Level 1 publishers are ordinary, decent presses. Level 2 publishers are >>the top presses with a global reputation. You set the "type" box to >>"publishers," then you play with the other settings by area or >>discipline or country. You can also search by name. There is a URL with >>the web site for nearly every publisher in the system: >> >> Here are the 89 Level 2 publishers. >> >> 2 AltaMira >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=19039&bibsys=> >> 2 >>Ashgate<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18073&bibsys=> >> 2 Belknap Press of Harvard University >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18087&bibsys=> >> 2 Berg >>Publishers<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18088&bibsy >>s=> >> 2 Berghahn >>Books<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18089&bibsys=> >> 2 Blackwell >>Publishing<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=13245&bibsy >>s=> >> 2 Blackwell >>Verlag<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18099&bibsys=> >> 2 Bloomsbury >>Academic<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=23203&bibsys= >>> >> 2 Boydell & >>Brewer<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18667&bibsys=> >> 2 >>Brepols<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18108&bibsys=> >> 2 Brill Academic >>Publishers<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18109&bibsy >>s=> >> 2 C.H. >>Beck<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18481&bibsys=> >> 2 Cambridge University >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18118&bibsys=> >> 2 Columbia University >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18135&bibsys=> >> 2 >>Continuum<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18136&bibsys >>=> >> 2 Cornell University >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18138&bibsys=> >> 2 D.S. >>Brewer<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=13295&bibsys=> >> 2 >>Duckworth<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18149&bibsys >>=> >> 2 >>Duculot<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18150&bibsys=> >> 2 Duke University >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18151&bibsys=> >> 2 Edinburgh University >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18159&bibsys=> >> 2 Edition text + >>kritik<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=12795&bibsys=> >> 2 Edward Elgar >>Publishing<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18170&bibsy >>s=> >> 2 Equinox >>Publishing<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18177&bibsy >>s=> >> 2 Falmer >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=13807&bibsys=> >> 2 Frank Cass >>Publishers<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18188&bibsy >>s=> >> 2 Franz Steiner >>Verlag<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18189&bibsys=> >> 2 Harrassowitz >>Verlag<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18212&bibsys=> >> 2 Hart Publishing >>Ltd<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18213&bibsys=> >> 2 Harvard University >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18214&bibsys=> >> 2 Honoré >>Champion<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18224&bibsys= >>> >> 2 I.B. >>Tauris<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=13393&bibsys=> >> 2 IKO - >>Verlag<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18234&bibsys=> >> 2 Intellect >>Ltd.<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18252&bibsys=> >> 2 James Currey >>Publishers<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=13578&bibsy >>s=> >> 2 John Benjamins Publishing >>Company<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18269&bibsys=> >> 2 Johns Hopkins University >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18271&bibsys=> >> 2 Kluwer Law >>International<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18283&bi >>bsys=> >> 2 Lawrence Erlbaum >>Associates<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18292&bibsy >>s=> >> 2 Librairie >>Droz<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18298&bibsys=> >> 2 LIT >>Verlag<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18582&bibsys=> >> 2 M. E. >>Sharpe<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18308&bibsys=> >> 2 Manchester University >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=13091&bibsys=> >> 2 Martinus Nijhoff >>Publishers<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18314&bibsy >>s=> >> 2 Max >>Niemeyer<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18318&bibsys= >>> >> 2 Mentis Verlag >>GmbH<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18322&bibsys=> >> 2 MIT >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18330&bibsys=> >> 2 Mohr >>Siebeck<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18333&bibsys=> >> 2 Motilal >>Banarsidass<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18334&bibs >>ys=> >> 2 Mouton de >>Gruyter<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18335&bibsys=> >> 2 Multilingual >>Matters<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18336&bibsys=> >> 2 Ox Bow >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18363&bibsys=> >> 2 Oxford University >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18364&bibsys=> >> 2 Palgrave >>Macmillan<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18370&bibsys >>=> >> 2 Peeters >>Publishers<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18369&bibsy >>s=> >> 2 Pendragon >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=19630&bibsys=> >> 2 Polity >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=19216&bibsys=> >> 2 >>Praeger<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=13833&bibsys=> >> 2 >>Prentice-Hall<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18381&bi >>bsys=> >> 2 Presses Universitaires de >>France<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18385&bibsys=> >> 2 Princeton University >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18388&bibsys=> >> 2 >>Rodopi<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18399&bibsys=> >> 2 >>Routledge<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18402&bibsys >>=> >> 2 >>RoutledgeFalmer<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18405& >>bibsys=> >> 2 Rowman & Littlefield >>Publishers<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=19194&bibsy >>s=> >> 2 Sage >>Publications<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18411&bib >>sys=> >> 2 Stanford University >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18429&bibsys=> >> 2 Stauffenburg >>Verlag<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18430&bibsys=> >> 2 >>Suhrkamp<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18431&bibsys= >>> >> 2 Syracuse University >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18439&bibsys=> >> 2 T&T >>Clark<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=19233&bibsys=> >> 2 University of British Columbia >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18457&bibsys=> >> 2 University of California >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18458&bibsys=> >> 2 University of Chicago >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18459&bibsys=> >> 2 University of Hawai'i >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18462&bibsys=> >> 2 University of Michigan >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18464&bibsys=> >> 2 University of Minnesota >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18465&bibsys=> >> 2 University of Pennsylvania >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=19617&bibsys=> >> 2 University of Washington >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18476&bibsys=> >> 2 Universitätsverlag >>Winter<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18478&bibsys=> >> 2 Vandenhoeck & >>Ruprecht<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18480&bibsys= >>> >> 2 Verlag J. B. >>Metzler<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18485&bibsys=> >> 2 >>Verso<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=13743&bibsys=> >> 2 Wallstein >>Verlag<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=19215&bibsys=> >> 2 Walter de >>Gruyter<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18493&bibsys=> >> 2 Waxmann >>Verlag<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18496&bibsys=> >> 2 Wilhelm Fink >>Verlag<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18504&bibsys=> >> 2 Yale University >>Press<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=18511&bibsys=> >> 2 Zed >>Books<http://dbh.nsd.uib.no/kanaler/kanalDetalj.do?orgnr=19038&bibsys=> >> >> Beyond this, there are thousands of legitimate publishers. >> >> Please share this information about Lambert Academic Publishing and >>Verlag Doktor Mueller. This goes around every year as people graduate >>and the folks at LAP and VDM trawl university web sites looking for >>naïve and hopeful authors. They rely on the fact that young researchers >>must publish, and they dangle the lure of a book in front of those too >>new to the research business to know better. This is a pattern for >>predatory publishers of all kinds. If you have doctoral students, please >>warn them about LAP and VDM. If you are a recent graduate, don't get >>fooled! >> >> It takes real work to transform a PhD thesis into a book. This is even >>true of a first-rate thesis. I've been following the work of one >>outstanding researcher at University of Michigan for nearly two decades >>since he did his master's. He has an important new book in print. He did >>his PhD at Yale. Then, he took five years from the completion of the PhD >>to the finished book with a top university press. Along the way, the >>press invited him to a "new authors" workshop, and he had the full >>support of a first-rate editor. It still took time. That's the way >>things work. Other researchers can't restructure the thesis into a book >>‹ instead, they generate serious journal articles. That's another way >>that things work. >> >> Samuel Johnson once wrote, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except >>for money." Those of us who work in universities don't generally write >>for the money. There's not much that we produce that has any hope for >>Hollywood film rights, and Russell Crowe is not going to star with >>Scarlett Johansson and Hugh Jackman in the big-screen version of >>"User-Centered Design Methods for Public-Transport Ticket Systems." >> >> The lack of revenue for what we write puts us in the "blockhead" column >>of Dr. Johnson's equation. The one pay-off that we do get is pride in a >>job well done. That includes publishing with a serious press and a >>publisher whose interests align with our own. Researchers who want their >>work to count should evaluate publishers just as any good publisher will >>evaluate your manuscript Š carefully. >> >> If you receive a sudden invitation to publish your book from a >>publisher who has not seen the manuscript, met you at a conference, or >>spoken with you, you should wonder whether something is wrong ‹ or at >>least a bit off. >> >> Warm wishes, >> >> Ken >> >> Ken Friedman, PhD, DSc (hc), FDRS | University Distinguished Professor >>| Swinburne University of Technology | Melbourne, Australia | >>[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | Mobile +61 404 >>830 462 | Home Page >>http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design/people/Professor-Ken-Friedman-ID22.htm >>l<http://www.swinburne.edu.au/design> Academia Page >>http://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman About Me Page >>http://about.me/ken_friedman >> >> Guest Professor | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University >>| Shanghai, China >> > > >-- >---> > >A living - breathing - thriving networked neighbourhood - >proud of free culture - claiming it with others ;) > >Other reviews,articles,interviews >http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews.php > >Furtherfield online arts community, platforms for creating, viewing, >discussing and learning about experimental practices at the >intersections of art, technology and social change. >http://www.furtherfield.org > >Furtherfield Gallery Finsbury Park (London). >http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery > >Netbehaviour - Networked Artists List Community. >http://www.netbehaviour.org > >http://identi.ca/furtherfield >http://twitter.com/furtherfield