We'd love the idea that this e-book to become actualized on a regular basis. However, the authors main focus is not necessarily related to this e-book forever. Thus, the only chance to satisfy this goal is to allow this e-book to be a community-driven one, and motivate arbitrary contributions from Scientists and Engineers for certain compensations proposed below.
Who can contribute and what kind of contribution is expected, view involvement and conditions
Depending on the level and nature of the contribution, any contribution shall be acknowledged (acknowledgment section) or credited as a(n) (co-)author (on the top of a section or a chapter).
The e-book is licenced under typical CC license. Thus, contents of this e-book may act as (an extended) preprint for academic publications. Therefore, significant contributors
- can make use of the contents of this e-book for their academic publications. Common ethics for scientific publications are conditioned (agreement of other contributors and relevant credits to their writings)
- will be qualified to a co-authorship in any relevant academic publication that is making use of thier contribution (given that they must agree and actively participate in the writing/reviewing of a potential academic publication)
Remark
The philosphy of this e-book is to avoid duplicated materials available in open-access publications. Own style original text is used to summarize many relevant open-access publications. Thus, any signficant materials in this e-book that are employed online could be simplified afterwords in future revisions of this e-book.
Warning
Although we'd love to manage an academic publication in the form of communication letter, review paper or other topic-specific papers, We don't promise at all that a scientific publication will be ever attempted.
By request, further compensations for those who maintain a contibution ratio of at least 5% of the whole contents (to be anually estimated)
- You can bring the logo of your organization to the front of the e-book and/or
- You can obtain a ratio of (Y x 0.499) of the whole income of the e-book, where Y: an approximated contribution ratio at least 5% or 10% or 15%, ... (Y is divisable by 5)
- ...
Warning
Current income barely equalizes the current fees of overleaf.com
Remark
An extended or advanced version of this e-book may (but no promise is made) ends one day as a printed book or a commercial e-book (however, all contributions shall be always made online accessible). We are not really aiming at this goal, but we simply keep this possibility open.