Getting Started: Project Creation and Metadata

If you want to use Publish Goods to create a book, a Journaljournal issue or any other text document, you will first have to create a new project and fill in the basic information of it.

1. Project Creation

You can do so,so by clicking on the "Plus" symbol next to "Projects"

 

 

Next, give your project a name. 

After you have created the project, the name can no longer be changed!

The name does not doeshave notto necessarily have to correspond to the publicationspublication's title, which can always be changed at a later stage. It should primarily make the project for you distinguishable from other projects.projects for you.

The description is optional.

You can already choose the template you want to use for this project. But no worries, you can easily change the template at a later stage in the project metadata!

2. Project Metadata

Before you start to import your content, you should make sure to fill out the project metada.metadata. This not only prevents thatit it'llfrom bebeing forgotten, but without basic metadata, the export does - for technical reasons - not work. 

Simply fill in the information, if applicable.

"Enable Table of Contents"Contents: activate,Activate, if you want to include a Tabletable of Contentscontents in your publication 

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"Add soft hyphens"hyphens: If you work with Vivliostyle, please activate. Otherwise you can ignore this. The standard template provided by us does not rely on Vivliostyle.

"Template"Template: Choose between different templates. For more information on templates, please refer to the Sectionsection "Template Documentation"

"Citation Style"Style: Choose between a variety of existing citation styles. As an administrator, you can also upload new citation styles.

"Citation Language"Language: Some citation styles offer different language versions, e.g. translating "Author 1 and Author 2" ininto other languages. 

"Cover Image"Image: Here you can upload your front- and backcover. Images must not exceed 1 MB. Colours might be slightly altered, as Publish Goods works with CYMK.CMYK. 

"Title & Subtitle"Subtitle: Insert the title and subtitle of the planned publication

"Date of Publication"Publication: Insert the (planned) date of publication. Just like all other settings, this can of course be changed at any stage.

"Number of Pages"Pages: This might be counterintuitive, but Publish Goods cannot automatically count the number of pages of the exported file. Hence, just before you export the final version of your document, add the number of pages (which you will know from pre-final versions). At the beginning, you can just leave this empty.

"Web URL"URL: In case the contents you work with are already published in a different format, you could add the URL here. If this is not the case, just leave it empty.

Series: If your publication is part of a series, add the name of the series here.

Volume: Indicate, if applicable.

Edition: Indicate, if applicable.

Publisher: Indicate which organisation functions as publisher.

Short Abstract: The short abstract should not exceed 255 characters.

Long Abstract: The long abstract should not exceed 4,000 characters.

Authors/Editors: Indicate the author or editor of the project. If this is an edited work, only indicate the editor here, not all contributing authors. You can simply write the name, or choose from author profiles that you have previously created.

See "3. Persons" for how to create author profiles.

Keywords: List a number of keywords that describe your publication. You can choose from existing keywords in the GND database or add your own.

Language: Select the language of your publication. For hyphenation purposes, Publish Goods also recognizes the language automatically.

Licence: Select from the drop-down menu under which CC licence the project is published. You can learn more about CC-licenses here.

Identifiers: If your publication has persistent identifiers, add them here. Select the identifier type from the drop-down menu, add the name (e.g. DOI, ISBN, or adjust the name if applicable, e.g. ebook ISBN) and copy-paste the identifier into the "Value" field.

In the template settings, you can define that the persistent identifiers listed in the project metadata are automatically included in the imprint

After you click "Add", you can no longer change the information. Hence, if there is an error in the persistent identifier, delete the information (on the right, red trash can symbol) and add a new one.

DDC Classification: Select from the drop-down menu which discipline your publication belongs to. When you select one, a new drop-down menu will appear automatically to select a subfield, and subsequently a sub-subfield. For a book on constitutional law, this might look like this: Social Sciences → Law → Constitutional & Administrative Law.