From Scholarpedia

How to log in

If a user is not logged in, he will see on the top of each Scholarpedia page a link "create an account or log in", as shown in figure 1

Figure 1: If not logged-in, users will see a "create an account or log-in" link on the top of each page.

Click the "create an account or login" link to get to the log in page (http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Special:Userlogin), shown in figure 2. To log in, the user should give his username and password. The username and the first password have been sent to the author in the first invitation email.

Figure 2: Login page, at http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Special:Userlogin

For authors

When logged-in (see section #How to log in) the author will always see his username on the top right of each Scholarpedia page ("riccardo.guida" in Figure 3). There, he will also see his Scholar Index and a logout link, as shown in Figure 3.

The author will find his article at an URL of the form http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/title_of_the_page (replace the title of the page). This address corresponds to the main article page.

Apart from this page (named "article") there are other related pages that can be reached by following the links at the top of the page, as shown in figure 3.

• "reviews" -- where reviewers, authors, and editors put their comments. The link is red because the page in the example is empty.
• "edit this article" -- click this to edit the page
• "revisions" -- click this to find all previous saved versions of the article and to compare them
• "(un)watch"
• "author" -- contains many author tools, including the "submit article" button (to submit it to the peer-review forum), see the section #How to submit an article.

Figure 3: When logged in, each author should see the page with his/her article.

"edit this article"

After clicking "edit this article" in the main article page, the author can see the source code of the article, as shown in figure 4.

Figure 4: The "edit this article page"

At the top of the page there are some icon-buttons that can help the author in reducing editing. From left to right the button action on the selected text is the following:

• Bold,
• Italic,
• Internal link,
• External link,
• Section,
• Image,
• Media,
• <math> </math>--tag
• nowiki--tag
• signature
• horizontal line
• <ref> </ref>--tag
• <rev> </rev>--tag

Try and use them! For further reading, look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_toolbar.

"author": author tools page

After clicking "author" in the main article page, the author could see the author page, shown in figure 5.

The first sentence in figure 5 (in a violet box) contains a "submit" button to be clicked to start the reviewing process when the article is finished, see the section #How to submit an article.

The left the menu provides links to the following functions:

* "Order of authors" -- to change the authors' order in the publication (DEFAULT)

• "Automatic Reminders" -- Where to go to change the self-imposed deadline and the frequency of reminders, see below.
• "Privacy" -- To enable the privacy option so that only authors can read or modify the article. Privacy can only be granted once per article, and for the period of 30 days.
• "Email Notification" -- email warning the author every time this article is modified
• "Invite co-author" -- to ask another scientist to co-author this article.
• "Resign" -- to resign from being an author of the article

Figure 5: After clicking "author" in the main article page the author should see this page.

"author"/"Automatic Reminders"

Clicking "Automatic Reminders" in the "author" page, the author reaches this page, shown in figure 6, where he can set the following parameters

• "Current deadline"
• "Choose new self-imposed deadline"
• "Get automatic reminders"

Figure 6: This page can be reached by clicking "Automatic Reminders" in the "author" page

How to submit an article

When logged-in (see section #How to log in), after having clicked the "author" link in the main article page (see section #for authors and figure 3), the author could see the "author page", as shown in figure 5. The first sentence in figure 5 (in a violet box) contains a "submit" button to be clicked to start the reviewing process when the article is finished. After clicking the submit button --and confirmed his submission to an automatic prompt-- the author will see a page like in figure 7. There the author will specify the copyright of the article (author owns the copyright or Creative Commons or GPL) and the chosen review mode (old-style/mixed/wiki-style). To complete the submission it is mandatory to click the button "submit to peer-review forum": after clicking the button the author will be redirected back to the "author" which will look like in figure 8. Note in figure 8 the message "submission successful" and the button "withdrawal from review forum"

Figure 7: After clicking the submit button --and confirmed his submission to the prompt-- the author will be asked about copyright and review mode

Figure 8: After clicking the "submit to peer-review forum" button the author will be redirected back to the "author" page

For referees

When logged in (see section #How to log in) and after reaching the article page, the reviewer will see, on the top of the article a pink box named "peer review status", as shown in figure 9. There the reviewer could find three buttons:

• "email alert" -- to alert the author that new comments are available
• "accept" -- to ACCEPT the paper
• "resign" -- to resign reviewing the paper

Figure 9: The "peer review status" box that each logged-in reviewer sees at the top of each article he is reviewing

Moreover at the bottom of the article page the reviewer will see the text "(Your contributions to this article are anonymous. If you wish, you may use your real name in this article.)" as shown in figure 10. If reviewer desires, he/she can follow the link "use your real name" to disclose his identity and be acknowledged at the bottom of the article.

Figure 10: The bottom of the article page as seen by a reviewer; remark the "use your real name" link.

For curators

When logged-in (see section #How to log in), the curator will see his username on the top right of all Scholarpedia pages, as shown in figure 11. There he also will see his Scholar Index and a logout link.

Figure 11: The top of an article page as seen by a curator, before the first approval.

At the end of the review process the author becomes a curator and is ask to approve the version of the article that will be published in the journal. At this stage when the curator logs-in the article stage looks like in figure 11. Note the pink box which explains that to approve a version of the paper the curator has to click the tab button "curate" at the top of the page.

When coming back to the article page after the first approval, the logged-in curator will see something like figure 12.

Figure 12: The top of a an article page as seen by a curator, after the fist approval.

The curator will find his article at an URL of the form http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/title_of_the_page (replace the title of the page). This address corresponds to the main article page. Apart from this page (named "article") there are other related pages that can be reached by following the links at the top of the page, as shown in figure 11.

• "reviews" -- where reviewers, authors and editors have put their comments and where Scholars might have put new comments.
• "edit this article" -- click this to edit the page
• "revisions" -- click this to find all previous saved versions of the article and to compare them
• "(un)watch"
• "curate" -- contains many curator tools, including the approve revisions button.

"edit this article"

See the corresponding instructions for authors.

"curate" page and the "approve revisions" button

After clicking "curate" in the main article page, if there are unapproved modifications of the article, the curator will see the "curate" page, shown in figure 13. Note the "evaluate and approve revisions" button that should be clicked to approve the revision.

Figure 13: After clicking "curate" in the article page, if there are unapproved modifications of the article, the curator should see this page. Note the "evaluate and approve revisions" that should be clicked to approve the revision.

If, on the other hand, the last revision of the article has already been approved, than the curator will see the "curate" page, shown in figure 14.

Figure 14: After clicking "curate" in the article page, if there are NOT unapproved modifications of the article, the curator should see this page.

In both cases, the left menu provides links to the following functions:

* "Options" – options to customize email warning to the author every time this article is modified (DEFAULT)

• "Invite co-curator" -- to ask another scientist to co-curate this article.
• "Resign" -- to resign from being a curator of the article