The above title more or less speaks for itself. I am planning to submit a revised version of my PhD thesis for publication as a monograph. However, I've already published 3 articles from the work in Q1 rated journals in my field. My question is this, all other things being equal (viz: quality and marketability), how is this likely to impact upon the publisher's decision?
Your experiential thoughts on this would be highly welcomed. Pat.
Great question! I don't have experience of this I'm afraid... But I do hope to be in your position soon and this is a concern for me too, so thanks for asking.
My university will use certain software to check for self-plagiarism.
It depends on your university... ...
@ MeaninginLife. I have seen instances where some publishers (including Taylor & Francis, Routledge) after publishing articles in one volume of a journal then re-published all the articles in that same journal as a book. Essentially, if you have a copy of that journal you din't need to buy the book because they have the same contents. I have also seen instances where academics collate journal articles they have published over the years and publish them as books. I have also seen instances where, after publishing their PhD theses as monographs, academics obtained copyright permissions from the publisher to publish chapters from the monographs as journal articles. In fact, a very senior academic in my field who is currently writing a book recently approached me to know if I could obtain copyright permission from the publisher of one of my articles from the publisher so he could include the paper as a chapter in his forthcoming commissioned book. Are these cases of self-plagiarism? If they are, I know Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, Harvard academics who have these type of works on their public profiles. In fact, one example that I can site off hand is Joel Feinberg's "The Child's Right to an Open Future". Originally published in 1980, this paper has re-appeared in subsequently published works including as a book chapter in Randall Curren's Philosophy of Education: An Anthology.
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For publishers, this isn't (I think) a case of the ethics of, but the economics of, publishing. If sections/chapters of a proposed title have already been previously published in journals, is it still worth it (in financial terms) publishing the book or monograph? Or, is it financially harmful (for a publisher) to allow an author to publish, as journal article(s), a chapter or two from a published book/monograph? It is in connection with this line of thought that I'm asking this question. Moreover, a top publisher who in spite of positive reviews (all three anonymous reviewers of my manuscript advised that the work be accepted for publication) declined publishing it, suggesting that I add an international dimension to the work when in my view the reason for declining it has to do with potential sales figures (the subject area, as a result of Michael Gove's educational policies, is in decline).
Hi all,
To my knowledge, there is a period of two years after which you can ask the publisher for copyright permission to re-publish your work somewhere else. So it is doable. I think that I am correct in saying that this two-year period is waived if you publish in translation.
I have never come across anybody who re-published the content of several articles as a monograph based on their PhD though.
I do know a few cases in which theses openly available on-line through Ethos were published pretty much in the same format by major Publishers ( who were aware of this) in the field. So, it might indeed be the case of how "trendy" your topic is.
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