{"id":1458,"date":"2019-07-26T09:41:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T09:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/open-access\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2019-07-26T09:41:48","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T09:41:48","slug":"can-i-write-an-article-or-book-based-on-my-open-access-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/open-access\/can-i-write-an-article-or-book-based-on-my-open-access-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I write an article or book based on my open access thesis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting question and one that early career researchers commonly ask. You&#8217;ve worked long and hard on your PhD thesis and achieved your doctorate. Congratulations! Your thesis is deposited in your institution&#8217;s open access repository and the findings are published and freely available worldwide. Can you work on your open access thesis to write a journal article or develop it into a book? Will your target publisher object to publishing work that&#8217;s already been published?<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, there&#8217;s a list that can help answer these questions. The list contains publisher policies about publishing journal articles developed from a PhD thesis that&#8217;s freely available online. It&#8217;s called the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1VrXFJe_df0svkIvVBgFngrDPjDIsfzJSqFXzyX2lzWc\/edit#gid=768788756\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thesis prior publication and embargoes publisher policies and attitudes<\/a> and is available on the UKCoRR website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting question and one that early career researchers commonly ask. 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