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Add Users and Assign Roles

🔹 Step 4: Add Users and Assign Roles in DSpace


🧭 Step 4.1: Assign Roles to Users

Navigate to: Communities & Collections → Faculty of Science → Computer Science → Final Year Projects 2024

  1. On the right side, click the Edit button (pencil icon) [4] for the Final Year Projects 2024 collection. image

  2. Click on Assign Roles image


👤 Submitter (e.g., student123@uni.edu)

  1. In the Submitters section, click Create [6]

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  1. Click on the generated group (e.g., COLLECTION_..._SUBMIT) [7]

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  1. Click Add E-Person[5]
  2. Search for the email (e.g., student123@uni.edu)

  3. If not found, go back and add the E-Person first (Step 4.1)

  4. Select the user → Click Add [8]

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  1. Click Save Changes

👤 Reviewer (e.g., prof.reviewer@uni.edu)

  1. Switch to the Workflow tab
  2. Under the Review Step, click Create
  3. Click the group (e.g., COLLECTION_..._REVIEW)
  4. Click Add E-Person
  5. Search for prof.reviewer@uni.edu → Select → Add → Save

👤 Editor (e.g., editor.cs@uni.edu)

  1. Go back to Assign Roles
  2. Under the Curators section, click Create
  3. Click the group (e.g., COLLECTION_..._CURATE)
  4. Click Add E-Person
  5. Search for editor.cs@uni.edu → Select → Add → Save

👤 Final Editor (e.g., finaleditors.cs@uni.edu)

You can treat Final Editors as an extended curator group or create a new custom group for post-review metadata editing:

Option A – Add to Curators:

  • Add finaleditors.cs@uni.edu to the Curators group (same as above)

Option B – Create a custom group:

  1. Go to Access Control → Groups
  2. Click Create Group → Name it FinalEditors_2024
  3. Add finaleditors.cs@uni.edu as a member
  4. Assign this group specific permissions (if needed) via Authorization → Resource Policies