Procedure: Editing a Chapter in a Book

Introduction

Existing Books and eBooks Chapters entries may be edited / updated if required.  

Each Books and eBooks Chapters entry on this page will be listed in a new row and will be displayed alternately in a blue / black font colour.  This formatting is only used within the Scholarly Output context and purely for ease of visual display of multiple entries.

See also: Overview: Books and eBooks category

Procedure

1. Log in to the UCT Research Portal website with your UCT network credentials.

2. Click Scholarly Outputs.

2. In the Scholarly Outputs – Home  page, click Books and eBooks category.

3. The Scholarly Outputs – Books and eBooks page opens displaying any Books and eBooks Chapters listings.

• Editing an ISSN, title of book and title of chapter
• Editing and saving an author
• Editing and saving an editor
• Editing additional book information
• Contributing to OpenUCT
• Saving a chapter in a book

Editing an ISSN, title of book and title of chapter

• In the Chapters section, Click Edit next to the entry you wish to edit.

4. The Scholarly Outputs – Edit a Chapter in a Book page opens.

If necessary, edit the following fields:

• Edit the ISBN number in the ISBN Number field.

• Edit the title of the book in the Title of Book rich text field.

• Edit the title of the chapter in the Title of Chapter rich text field.

Editing and saving an author

• If applicable, click Edit next to the author name you wish to edit.

5. The Edit an Author  dialog box appears.

• Edit the author's surname in the Last Name field.

• Edit the author's initials in the Initials field.

• In the Institution extendable select field, edit or select your institution name.

• If this person was the primary author, ensure that the Primary Author check box is selected.

• Click Save & Close.

• A message displays briefly confirming that the information was successfully updated.

Editing and saving an editor

• If applicable, click Edit next to the editor name you wish to edit.

6. The Edit an Editor dialog box appears.

• Edit the editor's surname in the Last Name field.

• Edit the editor's initials in the Initials field.

• In the Institution extendable select field, edit or select your institution name.

• If this person was the primary editor, ensure that the Primary Editor check box is selected.

• Click Save & Close.

• The following message displays briefly: “Information was successfully saved.”

Editing additional book information

7. The Scholarly Outputs – Edit a Chapter in a Book page reopens.

If necessary, make the following edits:

• Click up / down arrow under Move to sort the Author and/or Editor listings by priority.

• Select the status from the Status drop-down list field.

• Edit the year in the Year field.

• In the Publisher extendable select field, edit or select the publisher name.

• Edit the place in the Place field.

• Edit the number of the first page in the chapter in the Start Page field.

• Edit the number of the last page in the chapter in the End Page field.

• Edit the website address in the URL field.

• Select the relevant peer reviewed option from the Peer Reviewed drop-down list field.

• If this falls into the category of engaged scholarship, ensure that the Engaged Scholarship check box is selected.

• Edit your own contribution in the Own Contribution field.

A scholarly output is considered ready for distribution once the Own Department and Own Faculty fields have been completed.

• Select your faculty from the Own Faculty drop-down list field.

• Select your department from the Own Department drop-down list field.

• If applicable, in the Own Research Group / Unit / Centre extendable select field, edit or select the name of your research group / unit / centre.

• Edit keywords, separated by space, comma or semicolon, in the Keywords field.

Contributing to OpenUCT

• Click Upload Contribution.

8. The Upload to OpenUCT dialog box appears.

9. Select the file version from the File to upload drop-down list field.

10. Select the Creative Commons licence from the Licensing drop-down list field.

11. Click Browse in the Upload file/s field.

9. The File Upload dialog box opens.

10. Navigate to the location of your saved file.

11. Select the file to upload.

12. Click Open.

10. The File Upload dialog box reopens with your selected file listed below the Upload file/s field.

• If you want to select another file to upload, click Browse to add another file and repeat from step 9.

• If you want to remove a previously selected file, click next to the file to remove.

11. Select the check box to agree to the OpenUCT non-exclusive distribution agreement.

12. Click Upload File/s.

13. The following message displays briefly: “Information was successfully saved.”

Saving a chapter in a book

11. The Scholarly Outputs – Edit a Chapter in a Book page reopens.

• Click Save & Close.

• A message displays briefly confirming that the information was successfully saved.

12. The Scholarly Outputs – Books and eBooks page reopens.

See also: Overview: Books and eBooks category