[Air-L] Advice on dissertation publishing?

[Mark Chen]

(resending from uw acct)

My dissertation was on proquest, open, and I threw in a CC license for good
measure (after reading danah boyd's how to).

It did not prevent me from getting a book deal (with Peter Lang). A couple
of my chapters were published before the diss and became chapters (not
verbatim tho), and Peter Lang didn't seem to have a problem with that
either. It may have been because I worked with a series and therefore the
series editors (who were the awesome Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear).

For a while my dissertation was being sold at Barnes & Nobel as an ebook
while my book was simultaneously out on Amazon but wasn't available as an
ebook. The book is a much, much better rewrite, and B&N was charging the
same, so this pissed me off a bit. I don't think that's happening anymore,
but Peter Lang still hasn't released the ebook version...

mark


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca>wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> I got an interesting query from a new colleague today. It is her specific
> issue, but I think a more general one for journals.
>
> See below for my edited version of the query. Please respond to the list
> in general
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> The university where I got my PhD requires publishing through ProQuest -
> either "traditional" or "open access." For traditional, it is closed and
> people must pay to access it (and I would receive a royalty, but I don't
> know who in their right mind might actually purchase a dissertation), and
> in open it is freely available for download. In either case I retain the
> copyright.
>
> *** My question is this: does either option impact my ability to publish
> journal articles from the document? Specifically, I have four papers I'd
> like to pull from it and much of each would be verbatim from the diss.
>
> *** Will journals see papers from an open access diss as "already
> published" or as somehow less desirable? I'd prefer to put it out open
> access, but not at the risk of not being able to publish from it.
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