Once you have submitted your article to Helen Walkington (Project Director), the article is then rendered anonymous prior to review, and prepared for publication on the Geoversity wiki. The wiki is used so that reviewers and editors can all discuss the article or resource without the need for printing or e-mails, in a secure area.
Two editorial reviewers, who are specialists in the topic, are contacted and granted secure access to review the article (or resource), and leave comments, in order to improve the article. An editor is then assigned and also granted access to the article, where the comments left from the reviewers are considered, and often further comments added. A decision is made by the editor as to whether the article should be accepted, accepted with some revisions, or rejected. The author is then contacted with the decision. In most cases there are small revisions to be made and lots of help and guidance is provided to support authors.
In the case of the article being accepted with revisions, the comments made by the reviewers and editor are given to the author, so that these can be addressed before re-submission. Once the article is finally accepted for publication the author is then identified with the article, and an agreement form is signed by the author and the work is published on-line.
Depending on the availability of the editors and editorial reviewers the timescale for this process can take some months.