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Student Journals: Uploading content to repository

Final Steps

Once the article files are finalized, there are a few final steps:

  • Print Journals should email final article Word doc files to driverk@christensen.com, and they'll be uploaded to Lexis and Westlaw.     (Online-only journals content will be uploaded to our online content providers from their pages on the Repository, and do not have to send them to the printer).
  • Email the final pdf version of each article to the authors.  As a courtesy, and also to let them know that the final okay to print has been given and that they can expect their complimentary copies of the issue (and offprints) a few weeks after the completion date.
  • Both print AND online-only journals should upload final pdfs of articles to your Journal page on the BerkeleyLaw Scholarship Repository. 
          Crop final pdfs to exclude print guide and banner lines prior to posting
          Forward cropped pdfs and any frontmatter files to Maro (mvmanou@law.berkeley.edu) to initiate the upload process
          Contact  Joe Cera (jcera@law.berkeley.edu) with questions regarding editor access or uploading content
  • Upload final Word and pdfs of your articles to your Journal’s Shared Drive, along with Author Agreements and any other relevant files. 

Last step! Submitting files for upload to Westlaw/ Lexis

You're almost there!   You've finished production, formatting, editing, contract proofs, and have given the OK to print to the printer, or for online-only journals have posted your content to your Journal's website on the Scholarship Repository!

If you have not already done so, you will need to upload the final Word and PDF documents of your articles to your Journal's shared drive so that the content is archived and accessible to future ed boards and the Journal Administrator.

There is an important last step which you need to take in order to make sure your content gets posted to our third party online content providers, Westlaw and Lexis.

See below for how to go about doing that (as it varies for journals in print and journals which are online-only).

ONLINE-ONLY Journals- instructions

For those journal which are online-only, JCI will NOT be uploading your files.  Therefore, you will only need to do the following:

Notify the Journal Administrator of the completion of your issue.

Make certain that your files have been uploaded to your page on the Law School's Scholarship Repository

Make certain that you have SAVED the files below to your Journal's shared drive.

  1. Final Word Doc of each article file
  2. PDF files of each article created from the final Word docs
  3. Table of Contents- does not need any special formatting.

PRINT Journals- instructions

For those of you who are still in print, you will need to do the following:

Email JCI <driverk@christensen.com> and the Journal Administrator <journals@law.berkeley.edu>:

  • Final Word Doc of each article file (you do not need to edit out the banner lines)

Make certain that your files have been uploaded to your page on the Law School's Scholarship Repository

Make certain that you have SAVED the files below to your Journal's shared drive.

  1. Final Word Doc of each article file
  2. PDF files of each article created from the final Word docs
  3. Table of Contents- does not need any special formatting.