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Thesis and Dissertation Publication with Lambert Academic: Author Beware

Newly minted University of Pittsburgh Master’s and Doctorate holders may receive an e-mail from Lambert Academic Publishing, offering to publish your thesis or dissertation as a book. While this sounds flattering, there is no real advantage to taking up the offer.

Googling Lambert Academic Publishing will bring up a number of websites describing Lambert’s business model, which does not provide the author wider distribution of the work, royalties, or enhancement of their CV. If you sign with Lambert, you relinquish all rights to future publication, for all or parts of your thesis. Publishers generally require authors to sign copyright agreements, which vary in what rights the author retains of further use. In this and all other cases, be sure you are satisfied that the advantages of publishing, such as visibility and recognition for your work, outweigh any loss of control over the content.

If you publish with Lambert, your thesis will be published without editing and with virtually no format change from the final version approved by the University. You will be encouraged to buy a number of copies yourself in order to lower the price of the book for other buyers.

If you are considering publishing articles based on your thesis or dissertation work, see the HSLS Scholarly Communication Guide for information on selecting a publisher, open access publication, your rights as an author, and more.

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Is Lambert Academic Publishing a reputable company?

I was contacted by the Acquisition editor of Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP) to publish my bachelor's thesis as a printed book. Is LAP any good? I have no idea about it; I have just heard that it's a freelance publishing house.

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• 7 See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDM_Publishing (and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author_mill ) –  JeffE Commented Jul 19, 2012 at 15:46
• Funny. I got a similar mail yesterday. –  user107 Commented Jul 20, 2012 at 13:26
• i got one day before yesterday :O –  vini Commented Jul 20, 2012 at 14:10

5 Answers 5

Publishing a thesis this way has no academic value whatsoever. (I.e., it will lead to no prestige, respectability, credit, etc. For academic purposes, it will not count as a published book, except for interfering with other forms of publication.) LAP's business model seems to be collecting as many theses and other unpublished academic documents as they can and then selling printed copies. I don't see much value to this, but it could be harmless if you do not plan to publish the thesis in any other form. If you like the idea of seeing your thesis for sale on amazon.com, then you should investigate other options as well and choose whatever seems like the best deal. However, it's unlikely that you'll make any money from this, and certainly no more than a small amount, so you'll be contributing more to the academic community if you make the thesis available for free online.

See also I Sold My Undergraduate Thesis to a Print Content Farm for a detailed account of LAP's business practices.

• 28 +1 if you want your stuff to be seen/read, put it online for free, any other means will hinder accessibility. –  Zenon Commented Jul 19, 2012 at 15:45
• 2 thanks ... i will reconsider my decision and putting it online for free seems better –  vini Commented Jul 19, 2012 at 16:19
• 6 Note that putting it online also counts as publishing to some people and can interfere with preparing other scholarly publications based on the work. –  Ben Norris Commented Jul 20, 2012 at 0:00
• To give more info i have already published 3 research papers in open access journals from my thesis –  vini Commented Jul 20, 2012 at 3:59
• 4 Agreeing: if your goal is accessibility, such a publication is not good. If your goal is "credit/status", it is completely worthless. True, putting things on-line (on your own web page of some sort, or arXiv) is sometimes (aggressively, for ulterior purposes) construed as "bad publication". But good journals, while occasionally quibbling in some essentially meaningless ways, will not object to, for example, a "preliminary version" being on-line. (They may object to the fruits of their copyeditors being put on-line for free...) –  paul garrett Commented Jul 20, 2012 at 23:03

No, it is not.

See this review from Jeffrey Beall:

http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/11/05/lambert-academic-publishing-a-must-to-avoid/#more-921

(I highly recommend checking his list of 'predatory academic publishers' and reporting any new one you see to him).

Or this blog entry: http://chrisnf.blogspot.com/2010/06/lambert-academic-publishing-continues.html

It's what people started to call a 'predatory publisher'

It will bring you nothing but an expensive hard copy of what you apparently already published. Your local printing joint will probably do a better job, for less $.

Good god, no, avoid anything from Lambert like the plague.I bought a Lap Lambert publication online from Amazon without checking on the publisher first. It was on a topic that was relevant to my thesis and I felt I should check this book out. It's called "Aspects of Neuroses in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy" by a Mona Radwan from Cairo university. I paid a lot of money, a total of $154 for quick postage, because I was anxious to read it, thinking it might cover material in my own work, necessitating changes to my own thesis. I also thought that if it was an astute and well researched piece of work it might be very useful and take my own arguments in new and fruitful directions. But when I read the book I was appalled. You can see my one star review of it on Amazon if you care to read it, at http://www.amazon.com/Aspects-neuroses-barkers-regeneration-trilogy/dp/3848406403/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1454636030&sr=1-1&keywords=mona+radwan I could not believe a publisher would allow its name to be associated with such a shoddy product. Even the blurbs on the back cover are very badly worded and punctuated. The contents of the book are poorly formatted. There are terrible problems with the thesis itself, in punctuation, structure, citation, referencing, style and level of research, indicating either that Radwan submitted it before her thesis was examined or before receiving comments from supervisors, because so much is wrong with this as a doctoral thesis. I am making this comment to warn everyone away from anything that comes out of this dreadful shambles of a publishing house. Avoid it like the plague. I have been burned. Save yourself.

• 9 I don't see your one star review when I follow the Amazon link, just a five star non review. –  J W Commented Apr 22, 2016 at 13:09

Although it may seem harmless at first, there is one thing that is very important to bear in mind when you intend to publish your work: You do NOT want your name nor work associated with any dubious publishers, editors, conferences, journals, etc, as it may be harmful, e.g. you may end up having your high-quality work published amongst several low-quality ones.

Therefore, in my opinion, you should not risk Lambert, as they do not have any peer reviewing nor seem to enforce any quality standards.

Publish them online for maximum impact or try a genuine academic publisher for prestige. Lambert will basically offer to print out individual copies of your thesis for a very high price (thus making a lot of money). Plus they use fake accounts in social media among other shady practices:

http://journalology.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/lambert-academic-publishing-or-how-not.html

• Some may see it as a benefit. :) –  mctylr Commented Aug 8, 2014 at 20:42

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I Sold My Undergraduate Thesis to a Print Content Farm

A trip through the shadowy, surreal world of an academic book mill..

Courtesy of Joseph Stromberg

If you’re an academic (or were once an aspiring academic), you may have once received an email just like the one I got at 6:10 on a sunny morning last August.

“As stated by the Washington University in St. Louis’s electronic repository, you authored the work entitled ‘Lands of the Lakota Policy Culture and Land Use on the Pine Ridge Reservation’ in the framework of your postgraduate degree,” Karen Holmes, an acquisition editor at LAP Lambert Academic Publishing, told me. She added that she worked for a “top international publishing group” and was interested in publishing my work as a book.

The email was slightly better quality than spam—she’d gotten my school’s name and undergraduate thesis title right, with the exception of a missing colon—so I hesitated ever so briefly before deleting it. On a whim, I Googled her company’s name. The first page of results contained links like “ Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid ,” “ Why You Shouldn’t Publish With Lap Lambert, German Publishing House ,” and “ Lambert Academic Publishing (or How Not to Publish Your Thesis) .” The bloggers and academics who’d written these posts had gotten emails virtually identical to mine and wrote about how the company obtained the rights to tens of thousands of theses, dissertations, and other unpublished works for essentially nothing; sold copies of them as books to unsuspecting online buyers (who assumed they were purchasing proofed, edited work); and kept essentially 100 percent of the proceeds. LAP Lambert, I learned, is the print equivalent of a content farm: a clearinghouse for texts that generate tiny amounts of revenue simply by turning up in search and appearing to be legitimate, published works.

So, naturally, I replied to Holmes, telling her I was interested in hearing more.

I was struck with a zany idea: to sell away the rights to my thesis in exchange for the sheer pleasure of documenting and sharing the experience. For a brief time, in college, I’d thought about going into academics, but I’m now a working journalist, so my thesis isn’t doing a whole lot for me. It could be put to better use, I reasoned, as a way of exploring the blend of high and low tech that fueled this strange industry.

Holmes replied with enthusiasm, telling me that if I was interested, I should send her a PDF of my thesis and she’d let me know if they wanted to publish it.

I did so, and for four days, I waited with bated breath. Then: jubilation. “We assessed your work with great pleasure and confirm our interest in publishing it,” Holmes told me, attaching the terms and conditions of the sale, along with formatting guidelines. The contract told me—as I’d already learned from the blog posts—that I’d transfer the exclusive right to print my thesis to AV Akademikerverlag GmbH & Co. KG, the German company that owned LAP Lambert. (I could still let people download the thesis digitally, if I wasn’t making a profit.) They’d pay for all publishing costs, and I’d get 12 percent of the book’s royalties, but only if they cleared 50 euros per month for a calendar year—otherwise, I’d just get credit to use in buying other LAP Lambert books. I was responsible for making sure the text didn’t contain plagiarism and that I had the right to sell it in the first place. They would set the retail price and could suggest corrections to any grammar or spelling errors they came across. I clicked on the link she’d sent, digitally signed the agreement, and was told to start uploading my thesis.

At this point, I did a bit more research into LAP Lambert and found that it’s really just the tip of the book-mill iceberg. Both it and AV Akademikerverlag GmbH & Co. KG are part of an enormous German publishing group called VDM that publishes 78 imprints and 27 subsidiary houses in English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Russian, and plans to soon open up shop in Turkey and China. It has satellite offices in Latvia and Uruguay, but the majority of its English- and French-speaking staff are based in the tax haven of Mauritius, off the coast of Madagascar. Founded in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 2002 by a man named Dr. Wolfgang Philipp Müller, the company is notorious for using on-demand printing technology to package all sorts of strange content in book form and selling it online. The company declines to release financial data but claims to publish 5 0,000 books every month, making it, by its own accounting, one of the largest book publishers in the world.

How can it possibly churn out this many titles? Although a huge number are academic texts, hundreds of thousands result from an even stranger process: They’re built entirely from text copied from Wikipedia articles. On VDM’s own online bookstore, Morebooks.de , the listings for books like Tidal Power , Period (number) , and Swimming Pool Sanitation (published by VDM’s Alphascript and Betascript imprints) directly acknowledge this fact. Thousands are listed for sale on Amazon , all with the same cover design (albeit with different stock photos swapped in) and the same three names (Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, and John McBrewster) listed as the “authors.” Some go for as much as $100. Though the practice is technically legal—most Wikipedia content is published under licenses that allow it to be reproduced —critics say that it’s unethical and deceitful for the company to profit from content freely available on the Web.

Apart from publishing my book with LAP Lambert, I spoke on the phone with VDM’s CEO, Thorsten Ohm, to ask him about this and other criticisms, and he defended the practice. “We think there are people that are not interested to read on the Internet,” he said. “They want to sit at the beach, or somewhere, and have the complete article on a topic.” At the same time, he admitted that he was skeptical about the idea when he first joined VDM in 2011, and he said that the company had discontinued it, although a quick search through their online bookstore shows dozens of new Wikipedia-derived titles that have gone on sale since the start of 2014. At one point, describing his earlier doubts, he even asked the key question posed by VDM’s harshest critics: “Why should I buy a book when I can go to the Internet and get all this for free?”

That description, of course, also fits most of the academic books published by LAP Lambert. (A PDF of my thesis, for instance, was already published on my college’s website .) “The basic idea is that they bulk email people who have written a master’s or Ph.D. thesis and invite them to publish it,” Matt Hodgkinson, an editor for the Public Library of Science who’s written about LAP Lambert on his personal blog , told me. “There’s no selection process, there’s no editing—the thesis is essentially published unchanged but called a book.” Ohm admitted this without hesitation. “The editors just do a quick check,” he said. “We don’t do proofreading.” (Karen Holmes declined to comment on LAP Lambert’s editing practices for this article.) The company presumes that because most books have met the standards of various universities, they’re already publication-quality. By stockpiling the rights to a huge variety of works, automating the entire publishing process, and printing books only if they’re purchased at marked-up prices, the company can cut overhead to a negligible amount and generate significant profits, even if they sell few copies.

From the blog posts I found (and the hundreds of comments posted on some of them), I saw that many authors came away from the deal less than satisfied. Some naive academics think publishing will add cachet to their C.V., but they find that having the Lambert name on it is an embarrassment. Meanwhile, the contract stripped them of the right to publish it elsewhere or even publish chapters of it in an academic journal. “The authors may expect to receive royalties, but because the sales volumes are so low, all of the money generally goes to Lambert,” Hodgkinson told me. Michigan Tech , Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology , and Charles Sturt University are among the schools that advise students to think carefully before publishing with VDM imprints, largely because of the lack of peer review. “Do not publish with Lap Lambert or other self-publication schemes,” wrote Jonathan Sterne , a French-Canadian blogger and communications professor. “It won’t help your career, it won’t impress hiring or postdoc committees, and it won’t get you read by your peers.”

Some of the blog posts were also filled with angry comments from customers, who bought Lambert books thinking they were edited, full-length works, only to discover they were amateur-quality and riddled with typos. (One 72-page tome, for instance, is titled “ Lease Financing ; Hindrarnces to adoption By Business Enterprisses .”) Most infuriating for them is the fact that, in most cases, the same content is available to download for free from university repositories.

Moreover, Hodgkinson and other critics point out, it’s simple for an author to upload an e-book to one of a number of open-source sites if she wants to make it widely available. If the author’s hell-bent on a hard copy, there are self-publishing services that offer much better terms (in terms of the percentage of royalties paid to the author) and allow authors to retain copyright.

When I mentioned these charges to Ohm, he noted that a handful of discontented authors are inevitable when you publish tens of thousands of works and highlighted his company’s chief selling point. “We promise the authors that they don’t have to pay anything for their publication,” he said. “This has been our idea from the start.” Technically, he’s right. If I want to pay nothing to turn my thesis into a “book”—albeit only in a metaphorical sense, unless someone actually buys it—LAP Lambert is the way to go.

But plenty of people consider the company’s strategy predatory—and in his research, Hodgkinson uncovered a curious pattern that lends credence to this view. He found that the Facebook profile of Kevin Woodmann, one of the acquisition editors, featured a “low budget royalty free” stock photo entitled “ Confident middle aged man sitting and smiling in front of white background .” (The photo has since been removed from the Facebook profile.) Other acquisition editors used stock photos for profile pictures as well.

Ohm told me that after Hodgkinson’s article alerted him and other LAP Lambert management that their editors were using stock photos, they were instructed to immediately discontinue the practice and haven’t done it since. His explanation for the strange pattern is benign. “I know that not all editors, especially females, want to have their picture on Facebook,” he said. “This is especially a matter in some of our sites—for example, Mauritius—where we have Muslim and Hindu employees.”

But Hodgkinson thinks the editors’ use of stock photos—along with suspiciously Anglo-sounding names for staff that are largely based in Mauritius—are part of something more nefarious: a deceptive effort to seem more prestigious, especially for the large number of authors based in Africa, India, and other regions of the developing world. LAP Lambert doesn’t publish data on the countries of authors, but a casual search of its online bookstore and comments on blog posts reveals that a huge amount of authors appear to live in these areas. “Especially at many universities in developing countries, there are expectations or requirements that graduate students need to publish to receive a degree,” Hodgkinson told me, “and that pressure is leading them into the arms of these disreputable publishers.”

Upon logging in to LAP Lambert’s online publishing platform to upload my work, I was greeted with an utterly cryptic message. “Dear valued author, we would like to share some exciting news with you,” it read. “The AV Akademikerverlag GmbH & Co. KG will change its name into OmniScriptum GmbH & Co. KG. This move reflects our ongoing endeavor to open ourselves internationally and beyond the academic borders.” The company’s excitement was contagious.

I proceeded through the publishing process, filling in fields for the title, subtitle, and summary that would appear on the front and back cover. The actual cover design was predetermined—blue and white, with an unsightly red stripe across the bottom—and I was forced to choose a piece of cover art from a gallery of a few hundred clip-art images and stock photos. I searched for anything that might be even slightly relevant to my thesis, like a picture of a prairie (it was about how federal land policies affected a Native American reservation in South Dakota), but found nothing. In the end, I chose a black-and-white drawing of a bison, with sad, cartoonish eyes.

The cover complete, I was instructed to upload a PDF of the book itself, with guidelines for the page size, table of contents, page numbers, and other design elements. Reformatting the original Word document took some time, and I did so with the strange awareness that, in all likelihood, no one would ever see it printed on paper unless I bought a copy myself. Upon submitting the text, I got an email from Holmes, telling me it would soon undergo a “technical verification.” My book was assigned its own unique ISBN: 978-3-659-46676-2. I had finally achieved my lifetime dream of becoming a published author.

About a month later, I heard from Holmes again. My book was on the verge of being published, and I had a very special opportunity: If I acted now, I could buy multiple copies of it at deeply discounted prices. The standard price for the 128-page book was 49.90 euro (about $68), but I could get five copies for 32.90 euro each, or 20 copies for 29.90 euro each, and if I was prepared to buy 200 copies, I could have each for 22.90 euro. As part of the prepublication deal, if I bought a number of copies at any one of these levels, all future retail shoppers would get to purchase the book at the same price I’d paid, even if they bought just a single copy.

LAP Lambert’s real plan finally became clear: They make money not by selling arcane tomes to readers, but by selling the books back to their authors after they’ve already signed away the rights. The company isn’t technically a vanity press, because it doesn’t charge authors publishing fees, but its model is essentially the same. Getting an author to buy tons of copies (presumably to give or sell to family and friends) guarantees enough profit that it’s willing to sell the books at a lower price. I briefly considered buying a single copy, but ultimately declined, partly out of principle, and partly because I’m cheap.

Over the next two weeks, I got three more emails from Holmes pressuring me to buy, each more aggressive than the last. She used several strategies: guilt (“We agreed to provide you free ISBN, free cataloguing of your book in thousands of bookstores, free book cover, market coverage, support and assistance. We are now offering you the opportunity to support your project.”); optimism (“You can also purchase some copies and market them in your locality or maybe even sell them at your own price, thus not only generating profit, but also getting to know your target audience and perhaps establishing valuable contacts.”); and finally, hostility (“We would have thought that you would have at least liked to have some copies of your new published book and that is why proposed this offer to you in the first place. Maybe you have not realized the importance of having some printed copies of your book in hand?”). Each warned that my window of opportunity to take advantage of the deal was rapidly closing, but I declined repeatedly.

Soon afterward, I finally got the news I’d been waiting for: My book was published. I found it for sale at VDM’s online bookstore, surrounded by thousands of other books wrapped in identical covers with surreal stock photos or clip art. (At latest count, 84,253 have been published by LAP Lambert alone.) I spent an inordinate amount of time browsing them and wondering about the authors. Why did they sell their books to this strange company?

I waited, seeing if my book would sell. Apart from VDM’s site, it was listed by Amazon , Barnes & Noble , and other stores, but I seriously doubted anyone would buy a copy. It’s been almost three months, and so far I’ve been proven correct. Every time I’ve logged into my account on LAP Lambert’s site and checked for royalty statements, I’ve been greeted with the same sad message: “No credit notes at the moment.”

There was one sucker, though. Against my better judgment, I finally bought a copy shortly before finishing this article, finding the best price on Amazon ($61.20, plus free shipping with Prime). Somewhere, one of Amazon’s on-demand printing presses came to life and churned out all 128 pages of my thesis, binding them together between an ugly blue-and-white cover. In two days, the familiar brown Amazon box arrived at my house.

I flipped through the softcover book, reading the words I’d written four years ago, during my senior year of college, never thinking that they’d be reproduced on cheap paper and owned by a multinational publishing conglomerate. They looked exactly as they had in the original PDF of my thesis, just shrunken down onto A4-size paper and surrounded by page numbers and a title page printed in a different font. My thesis had been transformed into a mass-produced commodity.

Then, as I paged through the book, I remembered something funny I’d done when reformatting the text for submission. For kicks, I’d buried an errant phrase deep in the middle, partly to see if LAP Lambert’s editors ever actually read the thing. When I got to Page 86, I was gratified to find that they hadn’t noticed it. Right there on the middle of the page, amid talk of Oglala Lakota politics and tribal sovereignty was my insertion.

“Is any proofreader actually reading this book before it gets printed?” I’d asked. “Didn’t think so.”

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How to Get Your Dissertation Published in the UK

Congratulations on completing your dissertation! It is a great achievement, and now it is time to share your research with the rest of the world by publishing it. Publishing your dissertation in the UK can be a significant step in your academic career.  

It can also be a daunting task if you are not familiar with the process. In this article, we will guide you through the 8 steps and at the end of it, you will master how to get your dissertation published in the UK.

Choose a Publisher When Publishing Dissertation

The first step in publishing your dissertation is to choose a publisher. You can consider publishing with an academic publisher or a university press. Make sure to choose a reputable publisher with experience in your field of study.

Lambert Academic Publishing is a reputable publisher that specializes in publishing dissertations and scholarly books. We offer a wide range of services to help you publish your dissertation, including marketing. All you need is to check the steps on  how to publish with us . 

Check the Publisher’s Submission Guidelines

 Once you have chosen a publisher, check their submission guidelines carefully. This will help you understand what the publisher is looking for and how to format your manuscript accordingly. Some publishers have specific formatting requirements, so make sure you follow them closely.

Prepare your Manuscript

Before submitting your manuscript, you need to prepare it for publication. This involves proofreading and editing your work, making sure that it adheres to the submission guidelines, and creating an abstract and a table of contents. You may also need to format your references and citations in a specific style.

 Submit your Manuscript

Once your manuscript is ready, you can submit it to the publisher. Most publishers have an online submission system , so make sure you follow the instructions carefully. You may also need to submit a cover letter and a CV.

 Wait for the Peer-Review Process

After you submit your manuscript, it will go through a peer-review process. This is where experts in your field of study review your work and provide feedback. The review process can take several weeks to several months, depending on the publisher.

Revise Your Manuscript

If your manuscript is accepted for publication, you will need to revise it based on the feedback you received during the peer-review process. 

This may involve:

•  rewriting certain sections;
•  adding more data or references;
•  making other necessary changes.

Publish now!

Sign a Publishing Contract

Once your manuscript is revised and accepted, you will need to sign a publishing contract with the publisher. This contract will outline the terms of your agreement, including the publication timeline, royalties, and copyright.

Publish Your Dissertation

Finally, your dissertation will be published! Depending on the publisher, your dissertation may be published as a book , an e-book, or an article in a journal. Make sure to celebrate this accomplishment and share your work with your colleagues and peers.

In conclusion, publishing your dissertation in the UK can be a rewarding and challenging experience. Make sure to choose a reputable publisher, follow the submission guidelines closely, and prepare your manuscript carefully. 

Remember that the peer-review process can take time, so be patient and be prepared to make revisions. With perseverance and hard work, you can successfully publish your dissertation and contribute to your field of study.  

What are the Benefits of Publishing Your Dissertation in the UK?

The Significance of Publishing Your Dissertation

You’ve invested countless hours into your dissertation, and completing it is a remarkable achievement. However, what’s next? Have you ever considered publishing your dissertation in the UK? In this article, we’ll explore the numerous benefits of taking this step.

 Enhancing Your Academic Visibility

Publishing your dissertation is more than just a formality, it’s a significant accomplishment. It demonstrates that you’ve conducted original research and contributed new knowledge to your field. Sharing your findings allows you to take pride in your hard work and benefit others who can learn from your research.

Establishing Expertise and Reputation

Publishing your dissertation can significantly boost your visibility in the academic community. It helps you establish yourself as an authority in your field, a valuable asset when applying for academic positions or research grants. Moreover, publishing increases the likelihood of being cited in future research, further elevating your academic reputation.

Unlocking New Research Opportunities

Another compelling advantage of publishing your dissertation is the potential for new research opportunities. Sharing your work enables you to connect with fellow researchers who may be interested in collaborating with you or expanding upon your findings. 

This can lead to exciting research projects and opportunities for further knowledge and expertise development.

Honing Crucial Skills

Publishing your dissertation is a learning journey that hones essential skills. It involves receiving feedback and revising your work accordingly. This iterative process enhances your writing skills and your ability to articulate ideas effectively. Furthermore, it continues to develop your critical thinking skills, which are vital in navigating the publishing process.

 Achieving Academic Closure

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In conclusion, publishing your dissertation in the UK offers a host of valuable benefits, including increased visibility, research opportunities, skill development, and a sense of accomplishment. Most importantly, it enables you to share your hard-earned research with the broader academic community. 

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"Will repository submission affect my publishing plans?"

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• Let them know about the university’s requirement to make your thesis publicly available
• Submit a manuscript that is substantially different than the thesis content
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• You can submit your thesis without an embargo
• Your thesis will become publicly available in TSpace  and Library and Archives Canada after your convocation and will be widely indexed via search engines and indexes
• Use the TSpace-generated permanent URL to share and cite your thesis - see example of such citation below

Tajdaran, K. (2015). Enhancement of Peripheral Nerve Regeneration with Controlled Release of Glial Cell Line-derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF) (Master’s Thesis, University of Toronto). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1807/74747

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Most journals are interested in “original, previously unpublished” research. Some journals consider theses as a form of “prior publications”, others do not, and the majority does not have a clear definition. It will be best to check journal policy before you submit your thesis.

Nature Research will consider submissions containing material that has previously formed part of a PhD or other academic thesis which has been published according to the requirements of the institution awarding the qualification.

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• If such information cannot be located online, contact the editors directly
• If the journal requires that you place an embargo on your thesis until after publication, see the SGS instructions on how to request an embargo on your thesis .

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You may want or be expected to publish parts of your thesis before your thesis is submitted, such as with an integrated/publication-based/sandwich thesis. The most important thing to keep in mind here is copyright. You own copyright of your written materials, and a publisher may require copyright transfer of your manuscript.

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For example, Taylor and Francis policy allows to:

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• If permission is denied you may include in place of the chapter an abstract and a link to the article on the journal website.

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Science publishing trends, ethics, peer review, and open access

10 Sept 2012

Lambert academic publishing (or how not to publish your thesis).

"LAP Lambert does not conduct a peer review/editorial process. Manuscripts are published exactly as they are submitted to the publisher."  

"Where royalties average less than 50 Euro a month, the author is given book vouchers for other LAP Lambert stock. An author’s share is usually always under this because at the average rate of 80 Euro a book, it means they would have to sell 11 copies a month to exceed the 50 Euro threshold, which is difficult since the company does not undertake any marketing on behalf of the author."  

"This could adversely affect the opportunity to have your work accepted in a reputed peer-reviewed journal."

"I should point out that once you’ve submitted your publication-ready document to LAP’s online system, that’s it. If you’ve made a mistake and left off one-third of your reference list (as I almost did) they impose a hefty fee for having to intervene to make corrections."  

"My personal copy arrived last week. Looks just like my thesis (but with less expensive paper, a smaller font and packaged as a paperback!)"  

"When I checked my author's account at Lambert Academic Publishing at the end of the last financial year (after my beautifully paperbacked master's thesis had been on sale via Amazon for 12 months) not only had no royalties accrued to me, but zero copies of the book had been sold."

"plenty of people consider the company’s strategy predatory—and in his research, Hodgkinson uncovered a curious pattern that lends credence to this" 

"LAP Lambert’s real plan finally became clear: They make money not by selling arcane tomes to readers, but by selling the books back to their authors after they’ve already signed away the rights."

Tags: academic publishing , author mills , book publishing , fake profiles , lambert academic publishing , lap , Scholars' Press , theses , thesis , thesis publishing , vanity publishing , vdm , verlag dr muller

20 comments:

Thanks for the dissection! I just got an email from these guys (still trying to figure out where they got my address) and the whole thing looked so sketchy that I googled them at once; this blogpost is the second result. Honestly I can't see how this could appeal to anyone. If I padded out my lean CV by adding a book which was blatantly just my repackaged thesis, any sane employer would see it as a red flag for my honesty rather than proof of my productivity. Anyway I don't need the royalties -- a Nigerian businessman will be sending me five million dollars any day now...

Can I still retrieve my publishing rights from Lap Lambert having learnt that I was acting on an academi spam?

Here is another bogus profile of one of their reps: https://www.facebook.com/david.daniels.520562

Hey guys! I found this blog (like other) just after have signing the agreements with them (LAP Lambert), Fortunately I don't put my thesis on their website, but I m scared about the penalisation. Someone can help me! Thanks a lot. Julián

I suggest that you speak to your institution (e.g. your dean or librarian) about how to cancel any agreements with them.

Thank you for this great dissection. I only wish I would have found it sooner as I had my thesis published with them. I looked them up under a different name . I think they leave the mistakes in and or create their own on purpose so folks will pay to have it edited. I will chalk this up as a hard lesson learned and may look into canceling my agreement with them. Thank you again.

Yes, thanks for the post! After getting an email from them I googled "LAP Lambert Lisa Thompson" and found this blog. Happy I didn't reply to them!

Thank you for this warning. I was contacted on my work email, and was at first flattered since I do not have any ambitions in academics (at least not now). After this blog, I am not so flattered anymore - but at least I`m glad I did not send anything to them.

Thanks for information. I got from them a similar offer. They don't do even an elementary googling. Would they do they would see that I have already published my PhD thesis by other, respectable publishing house (both hardcover and paperback). So I answered them they if they interesting in translating and publishing my book in German given that they sitting in Germany, I would not be against it, but they should do it on their own account...

I saw this article too late and let LAP publish my thesis. Then they basically disappeared and I never even got a copy of the book. Now I see 11 used copies for sale on Amazon. Royalties?? What a joke. What a scam.

I received a similar scam mail today morning from some Sergiu Crudu, who claims to be from the editorial team of Lambert Academic Publishing. She claimed to be interested in publishing my MA thesis as a 'BOOK' for FREE !! That's a give away for knowing it is a scam. Anyone who has even tiny bit of experience in academia would know how difficult and rigorous it is to get your work rightfully and authentically published!

Seriously, A MUST AVOID COMPANY!!!! First they convinced you to publish your thesis with them, telling you that you will be receiving royalties payment in the future and they will market your book on various online bookstore. That’s absolute crap!! What they actually do is converting your thesis into a “book” which do not even exists. It is only print on demand and the price is about 35 to 100 EURO which I am sure nobody will be interested to buy as it is already available online on your university library I suppose. So they make you BUY YOUR OWN WORK!!! Yes, that’s true! They will persuade by telling you that the more copies that you gonna buy, the more the price will be reduced..etc..etc. The fact is that THEY RUN THEIR BUSINESS BY MAKING YOU PURCHASING YOUR OWN BOOK. They know that nobody will buy your book. That”s the business. One book is approx 40 EUR and you need to buy minimum 3 copies!! So they earn about 120 EUR from one author :O . Just imagine how many persons do they contact in a day! Moreover, they have several imprints such as Scholars Press and many others! THEY ARE FOOLING US. They made me purchase my book and it has been almost 2 years and not even a single copy of my book has been sold so far. I am not the only person who has experienced this but also many colleagues of mine. Our university is now trying to prevent students to publish with them!

They have just started this model of business in Brazil too: http://editoraprismas.com.br/ Pletny of colleagues are receiving emails from them, with "invitations", that of course touch one´s ego.

I received similar mail offering to publish my research as a book. I replied and requested further details. The Acquisition Editor responded immediately. But before acting I decided to check and the name of the acquisition editor appears curiously similar to that of a professor in Australia. No profile online to indicate the background and link to Lambert. I decided to google and these blogs come up. Thank you for saving my work. Okwiri

fooled ! :(

Hey, thanks for this! A brief moment of excitement followed by realisation that the email belongs in my spam folder! Back to normal life... And, Bluffer Xask - buy your own thesis off them? Why on earth would you actually go through with that?

Thanks for this clarification as this blog appeared during googling on this company as l received email from them so l get doubtful about this as l know how is it very difficult to make a respectful publishing. But as their fraud is very obvious why there is no action taken against them

A comment from a reader's perspective, I purchased a very interesting book from this publisher (via net) on little known edible plants in India, I thought it was a little odd that the grammar was very poor, though thought this might be normal for Indian texts in English, a second language, all the scientific names were accurate at least. I was suspicious enough to Google the publisher, interestingly the first time I've ever done this, good to read your comments. I get the impression the references to edible species are accurate, but many seem unique to this text so almost too good and exciting to be true, but they may well be true. It would be very sad if this is a sound document and the author was innocent of the nature of this publisher. This is certainly disappointing to me, will still use the book but with caution. I would have thought a publisher like this could get into trouble, if a book falsely says something is edible and it kills someone who eats it couldn't they be held accountable, I suppose they've thought of ways around this.

It looks like they're still at it, I had an email offering to publish my case study/thesis from 2007 about a now defunct department based at a single retail branch of a national UK chain. I'm going to email them back and ask "who cares?"

I was excited to receive such a good news to publish my paper into a book plus royalties. So in my joy to reply them, I wanted to know how to address the editor because I wasn't familiar with the name. So I took the editor's with the publication name and googled and hold and behold, I landed here and other blogs showing how scam they are. I thank God I did not reply them.

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LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Hoax

Dear forum, I think I have seen posts about phishing publishers earlier here, but I cannot find them at the mo. I have received an offer from LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing to publish my thesis and I am just wondering whether or not this is a scum Did anyone come across similar offers? Your advice is very much appreciated. Thanks, Rina

Hi Rina Myself a few fellow students at my institution were also emailed by LAP a month or ago - clearly a bulk-mailing, with my surname and forename comically misaligned. I don't think their operation is a hoax as such - they probably will publish a thesis on a print-on-demand basis, but their offer isn't based on any assessment of the recipient's work and is effectively akin to vanity publishing, with the added risk that you lose the rights to publish "properly" elsewhere. I'd be pretty wary, but there was a bit of readily available feedback / discussion of them when I googled.

Thank you, Mark B for the quite useful insight. I am going to check with other students in my dept, if they received similar offers. Publishing without peer review - just exactly what an aspiring PhD student needs, eh?

Hello guys, watch out for LAP which also comes under several trading names including VDM Publishing, Verlag Dr. Müller, etc. I suggest you Google this publisher and you'll find a barrage of comments and opinions about the company. The widely held opinion about it is that it is a rogue or vanity publisher. Publishing with them potentially damages your CV especially if you are a budding academic. Faculty search committees are said to bin CVs containing publishing entries with predatory publishers and journals. For similar publishing scam Dr Jeffrey Beall of the University of Colorado Denver, in Denver, Colorado, runs an interesting blog. See: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ Dr Beall fascinatingly keeps abreast of the scam which some academics have fallen for. Watch out everyone and don't fall for it. Dr Pat.

I am happy to report that I also received a request to publish my thesis with Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP). However since I had not completed my doctoral thesis, I published to other works with LAP. I have had a most positive experience with LAP. The two books LAP has published are 1. A Primer on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and 2. Major Development of Social Issues in Management from the 1900s through to Today. Anyone who doubts the veracity of LAP to publish their academic work can google the names of both of these books. You find them in Amazon and many other reputable online book stores, and the names of the authors and publishers on them are Hans E. Alagoa and Lambert Academic Publishing, respectively.

Thanks for your contribution Hansalagoa. As one of the original participants in this thread, I feel obliged to respond. It's not my place to say whether or not LAP is a legitimate academic publisher and there's no need for me to reflect on their business practices when a quick google search will turn up plenty of well-written analysis from those who've spent more time on the subject. As a moderator on a forum for current and prospective postgraduates who might be approached by LAP I would simply point out the following: 1) Make sure you understand the rights you're giving any publisher of your work. You'll normally need their permission to republish the same research with an(other) academic journal or press and they aren't necessarily obliged to give it. 2) Make sure any publisher or publication you do place your work with is recognised in your academic field. If you aren't sure, ask a supervisor or similarly experienced researcher. Cheers Mark

It will not benefit you to publish your thesis with Lambert. Do it properly or not at all.

I get emails all the time from these kind of journals. Its all rubbish. Publishing, in my field and in every field, is exahusting. The process is exhausting. So when I receive an email from an unknown journal that is happy to publish my work for a hefty price, I am skeptical. Its the equivalent of a nigerian prince who has a fortune and needs your help to transfer his money. Its rubbish.

I feel obligated to comment here. Based on my experience, I do not agree that LAP is a hoax or a scam. I already published one book with LAP. My book can be viewed in various online book sellers including google books, amazon france, amazon japan, etc. To test, I purchased my book via amazon.com as ordinary customer. I received the book and it appeared good. Before publication, I was asked to buy my book with them in order to reduce the market price. I opted not to release a centavo thinking that the blogs are correct about LAP being a scam. LAP did not force me to buy my book with them and good they publish it even if I did not buy a single book prior to publication. As to the contract. It says, copyright is retained by the author. The author can republish in part or in whole the contents of the book. However, the Author is deemed responsible for the contents of the book. This is fair enough because the publisher offers free publication. So, being responsible, I have to edit and format it well, i have to ask some peers to review my work before submitting for publication. Flaws are expected in any first edition, however minimal, this is one provision for next edition. I am working with my next book with LAP. We are still in the editing and formatting stage. Again, reading the contract that I am responsible of the contents, I have to be careful. This second book of mine is rooted from my dissertation. This has been edited and reviewed by dissertation experts in our graduate school. In conclusion: LAP offers only free services of publishing and distribution. Major editing and responsibility of the contents are given to the Author. Thism I believe is the reason why LAP does not ask payment. Fair enough. As to royalty. Well, my first book is not a best seller. First year I did not receive any. The second, only voucher worth 24 euro because according to accounting only 7 people bought my book.

To whoever may read this thread: the post above is pure crap.

Wake up! Publication is not only about distribution of information. It is a money making business. With so many publishers coming out of the market, it is normal to have competition. Big ones may try to eliminate smaller or starting publishers. Who are the scammers? Aren't they the ones who ask authors to transfer or assign their copyright ownership to the publishers or journal? Aren't they the ones who sell for profit without sharing their income with the authors? Let the readers decide the quality of information they read. Don't judge the quality of research on the basis of the name of the journal or publisher or indexer. This is favoring unfairly one business from others without the benifit of bidding. Who is guilty of being GULLIBLE? Aren't they the one who judge publications on the basis of suspicion, "POSSIBLY predatory" ? Are we the researchers who judge on the basis of uncertainty? Why can't Baell simply say, "these journals are predatory." WHY? Isn't it because he doesn't have evidence that can stand in court? I read in wiki that Baell is facing legal charges from publishers and that his employer deny involvement.(search for Baell's list at wikipedia). My goodness to the research evaluators who dismiss research articles on the basis of suspicion, "suspected predatory". Because of the evaluators INCOMPETENCE to prove predatorial, the authors are made to suffer by denying/disqualifying them certain academic ranks. God forgive them for they do not know what these evaluators are doing. Wake up goverment educational institutions!! In case you missed this, DORA's advice is not to judge the quality of research articles on the basis of the name of the journal (or name of publisher/indexer). Search for "San Francisco declaration of research." https://wellcome.ac.uk/how-we-work/open-research/guidance-research-organisations-how-implement-dora-principles

To add: Of course 'predatory' if proven, should not be tolerated. Also, guidance to the public from researchers isimportant so that a relevant criteria is needed to assess the intrinsic merit of the article or book.

Edit: spelling 'Beall'

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Multivalent inhibition of the aspergillus fumigatus kdnase.

Aspergillus fumigatus is a saprophytic fungus and opportunistic pathogen often causing fatal infections in immunocompromised patients. Recently AfKDNAse, an exoglycosidase hydrolyzing 2-keto-3-deoxynononic acid (KDN), a rare sugar from the sialic acid familly, was identified and characterized. The principal function of AfKDNAse is still unclear, but a study suggest a critical role in fungal cell wall morphology and virulence. Potent AfKDNAse inhibitors are required to better probe the enzyme’s biological role and as potential antivirulence factors. In this work, we developed a set of AfKDNAse inhibitors based on enzymatically stable thio-KDN motifs. C2, C9-linked heterodi-KDN were designed to fit into unusually close KDN sugar binding pockets in the protein. A polymeric compound with an average of 54 KDN motifs was also designed by click chemistry. Inhibitory assays performed on recombinant AfKDNAse showed a moderate and strong enzymatic inhibition for the two classes of compounds, respectively. The Poly-KDN showed more than a nine hundred fold improved inhibitory activity (IC50 = 1.52 ± 0.37µM, 17-fold in a KDN molar basis) compared to a monovalent KDN reference, and is to our knowledge, the best synthetic inhibitor described for a KDNase. Multivalency appears to be a relevant strategy for the design of potent KDNase inhibitors. Importantly, poly-KDN was shown to strongly decrease filamentation when co-cultured with A. fumigatus at micromolar concentrations, opening interesting perspectives in the development of antivirulence factors.

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M. Scalabrini, D. Loquet, C. Rochard, M. Baudin Marie, C. Assailly, Y. Brissonnet, F. Daligault, A. Saumonneau, A. Lambert, C. Grandjean, D. Deniaud, P. Lottin, S. Pascual, L. Fontaine, V. Balloy and S. G. Gouin, Org. Biomol. Chem. , 2024, Accepted Manuscript , DOI: 10.1039/D4OB00601A

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Probing Exciton Physics in Wide Bandgap Materials to Understand the Absorption and Photoresponsivity Behavior with Applications

Md Mohsinur Rahman  Adnan

Advisors:  Profs. Roberto C Myers & Enam Chowdhury

Time:  Thursday, June 20th, 2024, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Place:  Dreese Lab 260

An exciton is an electrically neutral quasiparticle that consists of an electron and a hole attracted to each other by the Coulombic force of attraction due to the opposite charge of the constituent pair. Exciton can form with the absorption of a photon into a material (insulator or semiconductor) as an intermediate state which can soon dissociate and produce photocarriers i.e., electron and hole under suitable condition. Normally a photon with above bandgap energy would get absorbed into any material of interest, but under an applied electric field a photon with below bandgap energy can be absorbed due to band bending as the wave function of the constituent electron and hole leak respectively from the Conduction Band and Valance Band into the forbidden region. This absorption process is known as the Franz-Keldysh (FK) effect. In Wide Bandgap Material (WBM)s such as Gallium Nitride and Beta-phase of Gallium Oxide the FK effect is dominated by the formation and later dissociation of exciton. The below bandgap photon absorption via intermediate exciton state can be a process of general interest to explain the below bandgap photoresponsivity of the WBM under study. The understanding of exciton physics in this context can be utilized to engineer important applications such as to accurately detect and quantify the local electric field and the onset of breakdown behavior of the material which can help in designing Radio Frequency (RF) and power electronic devices with high reliability and stability. This dissertation looks at the excitonic physics of Wide Bandgap Materials i.e., GaN and Beta Ga2O3 with the objective to explain the experimentally observed photoresponsivity characteristics through eXciton Franz Keldysh (XFK) effect. Application of the exciton mediated below bandgap photon absorption physics in mapping out the electric field variation of GaN p-n diode and Beta Ga2O3  Schottky diode with applied external voltage are also discussed to demonstrate the importance of such studies. In addition to these unusual electric field dependent absorption and photocarrier generation processes, Beta Ga2O3  also displays a striking polarization dependent optical absorption that is a far cry from any previously explored wide bandgap semiconductors. The anisotropy in optical absorption of Beta Ga2O3  has been demonstrated experimentally by varying light’s polarization orientation and measuring the anisotropic photocurrent. The origin of the polarization anisotropy are the non-zero off-diagonal terms within the complex dielectric tensor of this monoclinic crystal. There exist non-negligible off-diagonal components in both the real and imaginary parts of the dielectric tensor, especially in the near bandgap region. As a result, not only is the absorption polarization dependent, but so is the refractive index, resulting in a material that is both dichroic and birefringent. These physical properties have their origin in the energy shift of the excitonic transitions and the orientation anisotropy of the exciton dipole moments that change the absorption behavior and photon flux decay in Beta Ga2O3 . The decay behavior of the incident photon flux in this material is modified away from the well-known isotropic Beer-Lambert law; giving rise to depth dependent absorption behavior which itself arises from a depth dependent polarization rotation as well as optical dispersion. Understanding the highly selective polarization dependent solar-blind behavior of Beta Ga2O3 from the perspective of raw photoresponsivity calculated from Electro-Magnetic wave equation solution can confirm the observed experimental results and provide basis for engineering ultra-sensitive narrowband UV photodetectors.