Using LibGuides: Publishing Guides

Prior to publishing a new guide, it must be reviewed by User Experience to ensure Guide accessibility and compliance with copyright guidelines. To request a review of a guide, please submit a User Experience ticket.

To publish a guide intended for display in a Canvas course, make sure the guide has a publication status of Published.

Next, select the gear icon from the editing options in the top right corner of the page, and select Guide Metadata.

Navigate to the Custom Metadata tab and add a custom metadata field entry of 'course' (do not include apostrophes). The value for this field should exactly match the the Name field value from the Canvas course. Click the checkbox to make this metadata public, then save your custom metadata.

If needed, contact the course instructor and ask them to send you the information on the Course Details portion of the Canvas site. Your 'course' metadata value must exactly match the Name field in the Course Details section.

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To publish your guide to the subject guide list, you must add the relevant subject as a subject tag to your guide. 

To publish your guide to the course research guide list, you must add the 4 letter academic code and subject as a subject tag to your guide. 

For example, in order to be published on both lists, a psychology guide would add the subject 'Psychology & Neuroscience' as well as the subject 'PSYC: Psychology & Neuroscience.