If I publish my PhD thesis chapters, can my thesis be later still published as a monograph My supervisor told me that it is not required to publish my papers before submitting my thesis.
We are required (in German universities), however, to published our monograph thesis later as a book.
One of my chapters is already published as a book chapter in Routledge (it's too good an opportunity to miss). The published chapter is not entirely the same as my thesis chapter, as the Routledge editor edited it too (asking me to add this and that, which I did).
Now, another chapter of my thesis can be published in a conference proceeding too, if I so wish.
I understand that this is common practice for a cumulative thesis, but can it also be done with a monograph thesis?
In most places, PhD theses whose chapters are simply reproductions of work published elsewhere is acceptable. At the very least that's the case when you just publish the thesis yourself -- the situation might be different if you publish with a company that will likely insist on transferring your copyright to them.
Regardless of this, as in most of the other questions on this forum, the right answer is almost always &quot;Talk to your adviser&quot;.