Publication of University Theses

Some publishers such as AV Akademikerverlag (formerly VDM Verlag), SVH Verlag, Scholar's Press or Lehrbuchverlag (all part of the OmniScriptum Publishing Group) as well as GRIN or Shaker Verlag systematically contact graduates of master's, diploma and doctoral programmes and offer to publish their theses free of charge. Such requests should be treated with caution, as the theses are printed unchecked and without peer review and distributed at high prices via print-on-demand.

If you are aiming for an academic career, it is not advisable to publish with such publishers, as they have no academic reputation due to the lack of quality features, e.g. peer review, and are only rarely purchased by university libraries or other academic institutions. In addition, you transfer the rights  to the publisher and, depending on the clauses in the publishing contract, you would be excluded from using your work.