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The following tutorials cover the most common steps involved in publishing a Digital Commons journal. For a comprehensive guide, see Managing and Publishing Journals. Please feel free to contact us if you have any additional questions not answered in the guide or videos.

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Step 1 - Uploading Submissions in a Digital Commons Journal

View the upload process for either authors or editors by selecting a video below.

This video describes the process for submitting to a journal in Digital Commons as an author.

This video describes how to upload articles as an editor using the journal submission form.

This video describes how to batch upload articles as an editor.

Step 2 - Managing Submissions in a Digital Commons Journal

This video gives an overview of the Manage Submissions tools in Digital Commons journals. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about your particular editorial workflow.

Step 3 - Reviewer Process in Digital Commons Journals

This video describes how editors add reviewers and request reviews, how reviewers submit reviews, how editors view reviews, and how authors respond to reviews. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about your particular peer review workflow.

Step 4 - Registering Decisions in Digital Commons Journals

This video describes how to accept submissions, reject submissions, and how to request revisions for submissions to journals in Digital Commons.

Step 5, Option 1 - Author Approval and Publishing Incrementally

This video describes how to request author approval of the final version of an article, how authors give approval, and how to publish an article to a journal that publishes articles incrementally.

Step 5, Option 2 - Publishing by Closing Issues

This video describes how to assign articles to issues, how to rearrange articles in an issue, and how to publish issues in a Digital Commons journal that publishes by closing issues.