LibGuides for Guide Authors: Getting Started: Review/Publish

Once you have added all of your content and are ready to publish, there are still a few more steps -- outlined on this page -- that you need to take.

Once these steps are completed, your guide will be published and will be listed on the main LibGuides @ USD page.

Of course, you can continue to make changes to the guide after it is published.

Reviewing your guide:

• To see what your guide will look like when published, click on Preview on the yellow command bar at the top of the page. The preview page will open in a new window.

Getting feedback:

• When you are ready for others to review your guide:
  • Change the status from Unpublished to Private.
    • Click on Status on the command bar.
    • Select Change Guide Status.
    • Select Change to Private from the status drop-down menu (the bottom menu in the box).
    • Click on Save Status.
  • Send a request for feedback, with the URL, to Danielle.Loftus@usd.edu. (Make sure the URL has "...content.php..." in it, not "..."aecontent.php..."; the aecontent is the edit mode.)
  • The protocol calls for a week for people to provide feedback, after which you can publish the guide.

Publishing your guide:

• At the end of the feedback period and after you've made any changes, you can publish the guide.
  • Add tags (under Guide Options at the top right). (Do not add tags until you are ready to publish.)
  • Give it a "friendly URL."
    • Click on Status on the command bar
    • Select Change Guide Status.
    • Enter a single word or words running together in the top box. (It will be appended to libguides.usd.edu as the friendly URL for the guide (i.e. libguides.usd.edu/communication, libguides.usd.edu/compscience, etc.)
  • Assign the guide to a subject catetgory. (Also done by clicking on Change Guide Status.)
  • Change the status from Private to Published.
  • Send a message to the coordinating group (Danielle.Loftus@usd.edu and Deedra.Holdhusen@usd.edu) requesting that a link to this guide from the appropriate Research Help by Subject page(s) be added. (Make sure to give them the friendly URL.)