When conducting systematic reviews, we often come across trials that were part of a thesis and never published in a peer-reviewed journal afterwards. In essence this is a form of publication bias since the top bibliographic databases do not index Master's and PhD theses. Therefore, as long as the publication is beneficial to the literature then I see no harm in re-publishing it in a form more easily accessible to reviewers and clinicians. I would also caution against spending a great sum of money on it, as I would for any publication (including open-access). But that's my point of view and others may have differing opinions. Ahmed From: Evidence based health (EBH) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of NOSHIR PATEL Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 6:00 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Publications Sounds like vanity publication. Precaution: Keep a tight hold on your wallet! _____ From: Dr Ebtisam <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Friday, 27 April 2012, 10:16 Subject: Publications Dear all I need an advise as i am not expert in this area yet. When you get an on-line invitation for publication of your thesis in a form of a book, and they send you their web site, and ask you as well to remove the cover page where it indicates that this "dissertation was produced in partial fulfillment of the requirements of so and so". Can any one kindly enlighten me in this area. What precaution should be taken into considerations. Thanks Dr Ebtisam