(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@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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