How to use GIS Journal Platform

The GIS Journal Platform is a platform developed for the GIS Journalism & Yearbook class to help write and manage articles for the student-led journal, GIS Standard.

How publishing works

1. The manager adds the students and creates a edition.
2. Editors choose that edition, write their posts, and mark them final when they are ready.
3. The manager opens each post and checks which posts are still drafts.
4. When no drafts remain, the manager can export a PDF and publish the edition.
5. Final posts from the published edition appear on the journal homepage.

Before and after publishing

• Editors can write while an edition is open.
• A post starts as a draft. The editor marks it final when it is ready.
• Editors can keep changing draft and final posts while the edition is open.
• Publishing an edition locks it for editors.
• Readers only see final posts from published editions.
• Editors should return to the same browser when they continue a saved post.