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For faculty reviewers

This section is for the person your faculty or school has nominated to review research before it is published in the repository.

That person might be a supervisor — the academic who already supervised the work — or a designated research reviewer the faculty appoints to handle submissions generally. Either way, the job on this page is the same.

Where you sit

Nothing published in an academic collection goes straight online. Every submission passes through two review stages, and you are the first:

Student or staff submits
        ↓
   YOU — faculty review          ← academic merit: is this good work, correctly described?
        ↓  approve
   RIC — final review            ← publishes it, and mints its permanent DOI
        ↓  approve
   Published in the repository

You are the academic check. The RIC is the publishing authority.

You cannot accidentally publish anything

Approving at your stage does not put the item online and does not create its DOI. It simply hands the item to the RIC's queue. Only the RIC's approval publishes. So you can work your queue without worrying that a wrong click makes something permanent.

What you do

  • Check the academic substance — is the work what it claims to be, is it complete, is it correctly attributed and described?
  • Send it back if it isn't right, with a written reason the author will read.
  • Approve it when you're satisfied, which forwards it to the RIC.

What you don't do

  • You don't edit the submission. At your stage the repository gives you Approve and Reject — there is no "fix it yourself" button. If something needs changing, you send it back to the author with a note saying what to change. (The RIC can edit at their stage.)
  • You don't publish. That is the RIC's decision, and it's what mints the permanent DOI.
  • You don't grant people access. Adding depositors and reviewers is a RIC task — see Appoint a faculty reviewer.

There is no comment thread

The repository has no back-and-forth discussion on a submission. Your feedback travels once, attached to a return. So write the whole of what needs fixing in that one message rather than expecting a conversation. Reviewing a submission shows how to write it.

What you need before you start

  1. An account on the repository — create one with your Amoud email if you don't have one.
  2. Membership of your faculty's reviewer group. The RIC adds you; you can't add yourself. Until you're added, no tasks will appear for you.

Once both are true, submissions to your faculty's collections start appearing in your MyDSpace.

In this section

  1. Reviewing a submission — find a task, check it, and decide.

Next steps