Hi Charlotte,
Thanks, for adding this,
I visit PhD2Published regularly, and I know many others do also - it's
an essential resource for PhD'ers...
Wishing you well.
marc
> 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
>>>
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