More than 20 days after being accused by Mr. Oliver (Philippines) of not participating in writing anything for a book but being the first author, Dr. Nguyen Tra Giang, Ho Chi Minh City University of Management and Technology (UMT) spoke up about the incident.
Contract for transferring ownership of manuscript between 3 parties
Ms. Nguyen Tra Giang said that she and Mr. Oliver Napila Gomez have known each other since 2017. The two often exchanged expertise in physical science . At that time, Mr. Oliver had just graduated from university in the Philippines while she was a doctoral student teaching at a university in Thailand. Their exchanges focused on academics.
“In most of these conversations, I acted as a mentor to Mr. Oliver as a mentee,” said Ms. Giang.
In 2022, Mr. Oliver went to Thailand to work. Ms. Giang and Mr. Oliver kept in touch regularly and met to discuss related academic issues.
“Among the issues I often discussed with Mr. Oliver was the idea of writing a book on physical qualities based on the existing content and documents that I had drafted with two other experts. We pushed the issue further and worked regularly until the manuscript of the book A Unified System Fitness Design (USFD) was completed in August 2022,” Ms. Giang informed.
According to Ms. Giang, she and Mr. Oliver began discussing and decided to send the manuscript of the book to Springer Publishing House (USA). She was the one who chose to have many scientists review the manuscript, but later the content of the manuscript was not published because it did not meet the expectations of the reviewers.
By September 2023, based on each research relationship and assessment of Oliver's capacity, Ms. Giang invited Oliver to work at UMT.
“Becoming colleagues helped Mr. Oliver and I have more time to exchange and collaborate on the content of the next draft of the book, learning from my experience after being rejected by Springer. Finally, I suggested to Mr. Oliver to continue to try sending the book to Routledge Publishing House (UK) and we would have to edit the manuscript. From then on, I directed the editing of the manuscript and rewriting some of the content, including dividing which content was written by me, which content was written by Oliver and I checked it again. It took us another year to do the editing and exchange with Routledge Publishing House (UK),” Ms. Giang added.
By February 2024, the negotiation process was completed and the USFD book was agreed to be published by Routledge Publishing House (UK). At the same time, the publisher requested the signing of a contract to transfer ownership of the manuscript between 3 parties including Ms. Giang, Mr. Oliver Napila Gomez and Routledge Publishing House.
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Ms. Giang affirmed that from the idea, drafting, main writing, reviewing, convincing the publisher until launching a complete manuscript to sign a multi-year publishing contract. During this process, the relationship between her and Mr. Oliver was completely cooperative, without any disputes. Signing with a large and globally prestigious publisher like Routledge is not simple and not spontaneous.
Foreign PhDs have blackmail?
According to Ms. Giang, on September 24, 2024, the book USFD was officially introduced to global readers by Routledge. On September 30, Mr. Oliver quit his job at UMT and returned to the Philippines, then changed his attitude, while before that, the relationship between the two was very good. She herself also invited Mr. Oliver to join her in the book launch in Vietnam, but he refused without giving a reason and at the same time began the process of writing content about her on social networks.
Ms. Giang said that in October 2024, she received a series of blackmail and slanderous emails from Mr. Oliver. He demanded that she pay 40,000 USD, and continued to post many unsubstantiated articles on Facebook saying that she violated intellectual property rights by naming herself the first author of the book and asserting that he was the creator and owner of the USFD brand and the sole author of the book's manuscript.
“I once again affirm that there is no dispute here. I am the main author of the book and Oliver is the co-author. We both researched this work and signed a contract to transfer copyright to Routledge Publishing as mentioned above,” said Ms. Giang.
According to Ms. Giang, Mr. Oliver's posting of information stating that he was the author of the entire book is strange and meaningless because the book USFD was discussed, adjusted, and rewritten many times by her and her co-author, Mr. Oliver, based on her original manuscript, and also discussed, commented on, and signed a contract with many terms with the publisher Routledge before its release.
“It was a serious and professional working process between three parties. I am the main author because I came up with the idea, outlined and wrote the paper from the beginning. Meanwhile, Mr. Oliver is my research partner and student,” said the female doctor.
Ms. Giang believes that the most important issue in this case is related to the author's honor. She herself expects a scientific and honest review board to clarify the issue. Once again, Ms. Giang affirms that there is no dispute between her and Mr. Oliver over the copyright of the USFD book, but rather an intentional act of personal insult and defamation.
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Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/nu-tien-si-len-tieng-khi-bi-to-dung-tac-gia-chinh-nhung-khong-viet-gi-cho-sach-2358111.html
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