From: "Devine, Elaine" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:30:41 +0000


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To honor and celebrate peer review, a group of organizations is
working collaboratively to plan a week of activities and events. The
group is delighted to announce that the second annual Peer Review Week
will run from September 19 - 25, 2016.

This year’s theme is Recognition for Review, exploring all aspects of
how those participating in review activity – in publishing, grant
review, conference submissions, promotion and tenure, and more –
should be recognized for their contribution.

Planned activities include virtual and in-person events including
webinars, videos, interviews and social media activities designed to
improve understanding of the principle of peer review and how it is
practiced within the scholarly community. A list of events is
available at peerreviewweek.wordpress.com, and throughout the week
many organizations will join in with additional activities.

The Peer Review Week website (peerreviewweek.wordpress.com) also
features a list of online resources to advance our understanding of
peer review and its role in 21st century scholarship.

The idea for the first Peer Review Week, held in 2015, grew out of
informal conversations between ORCID, ScienceOpen, PRE (Peer Review
Evaluation), Sense About Science, and Wiley, the organizations that
planned and launched the initiative in 2015.

In 2016, over 20 organizations are signed on to the Peer Review Week
organizing committee. Coordinating efforts enables us to share widely
and powerfully the message that good peer review, whatever shape or
form it might take, is critical to scholarly communications.

“I am absolutely delighted that last year's first - very small and
experimental - Peer Review Week generated such support and enthusiasm
from the community that we will be celebrating it again in 2016,”
commented Peer Review Week Chairperson Alice Meadows. “Our much
expanded planning committee represents a broader and deeper
cross-section of organizations involved in peer review, and our theme
of peer review recognition should resonate equally with reviewers and
the organizations they are reviewing for - associations, funders,
publishers, research institutions, and others. I hope that Peer Review
Week 2016 will bring all stakeholders together to celebrate the
importance of good peer review to all forms of scholarly
communications.”

For more information, and to get involved with Peer Review Week
activities, visit:

www.peerreviewweek.org

and follow #PeerRevWk16 and #RecognizeReview

Organizing Committee:

AAUP
Aries Systems
COPE
Council of Science Editors
eLife
Elsevier
F1000
Federation of European Microbiological Societies
International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication
ISMTE
ORCID
Origin Editorial
The Optical Society (OSA)
PRE (Peer Review Evaluation)
Publons
The Royal Society
Sage
Springer Nature
ScienceOpen
Sense About Science
Taylor & Francis
Wiley