September 23-27, 2024 is Peer Review Week! With its inaugural event occurring in 2015, Peer Review Week is now in its ninth year and going strong. Events and activities, which all are welcome to join, can be found on the Peer Review Week events page. Further insights into innovation in peer-review can be found on The Scholarly Kitchen.
What is Peer Review Week? It “…is a community-led global event celebrating the essential role that peer review plays in maintaining research quality.” The Week’s Steering Group member list is comprised of publishers, editorial councils, higher education institutions, and more. During Peer Review Week, best practices are shared, reviewers and editors are celebrated, innovations in peer review are showcased, and the central role of peer review in sharing scholarly work is emphasized. This year’s theme is “Innovation and Technology in Peer Review”, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence in the peer review process.
Peer review is an essential aspect of research supported by or showcased at Leddy Library. Here’s how:
Finding peer-reviewed sources: Leddy Library makes it easy to find peer-reviewed scholarly sources in our catalog. One way to do so is to filter your searches by “Peer-reviewed journals”. Another is to search for a journal in Ulrich’s International Periodical Directory – which is licensed by Leddy – to see if it is peer-reviewed. Our What Are Peer Reviewed Articles and How Do I Find Them? guide is a good place to start to learn more.
Archiving a peer-reviewed version of your article: Many publications in our institutional repository, Scholarship @ UWindsor, are what are called post-print or Author Accepted Manuscript versions of a research article. These are the versions of an article after peer-review edits have been made, but before copy edits and publisher branding/formatting have been implemented (more information about these distinctions is available on our institutional repository page).
Self-archiving this post-print (i.e. post-peer review) version of your article in a repository like Scholarship @ UWindsor is called Green Open Access, and it is a way to make your work openly accessible without paying an oftentimes expensive Article Processing Charge (APC).
Being a journal editor/peer reviewer: Peer review is an essential part of the workflow of the seventeen journals published by Leddy Library. Our journals are all hosted on Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open-source journal publishing platform provided by the Public Knowledge Project at Simon Fraser University. OJS has embedded peer review functionalities within the system, making it easy for peer reviewers to record editorial recommendations, provide comments to prospective authors and to their journal editors alike, and to perform multiple rounds of peer review if necessary. In OJS, journal editors can easily accept revised submissions based on peer-review feedback, automate notifications to authors informing them of their article’s status, and communicate with all those who hold a stake in the peer review processes of their journal.
If you are interested in creating a new journal and hosting it on Leddy Library’s OJS instance, we would be thrilled to help you do so! We can help with every aspect of this process, including helping you decide which type of peer review you would like to implement in your journal workflow.
Showcasing your work as a peer-reviewer: Leddy Library can also help you populate your ORCID profile. ORCID, or Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is essentially an online CV with which you can showcase your research, scholarship, and innovation activities. One of these activities is peer-review work. Please check out our ORCID Help Guide for more information. To learn specifically how your peer review work is added to your profile, go to the Populating Your Profile page of the guide, scroll down to the section titled “Information that can only be added by trusted individuals”, and click the “Peer review” tab.
Navigating policy and complying with mandates: The current Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications states that all peer-reviewed articles arising from agency-supported research must be made publicly available within twelve months of their publication. This policy is now under review. By the end of 2025, this timeline will change from within twelve months to immediately. At Leddy, we can help you understand this policy requirement and comply with it.
The Tri-Agency is made up of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
Please reach out to us at scholarship@uwindsor.ca for more information about peer review at Leddy Library and the University of Windsor. Happy Peer Review Week, everyone!
What is Peer Review Week? It “…is a community-led global event celebrating the essential role that peer review plays in maintaining research quality.” The Week’s Steering Group member list is comprised of publishers, editorial councils, higher education institutions, and more. During Peer Review Week, best practices are shared, reviewers and editors are celebrated, innovations in peer review are showcased, and the central role of peer review in sharing scholarly work is emphasized. This year’s theme is “Innovation and Technology in Peer Review”, with a particular focus on Artificial Intelligence in the peer review process.
Peer review is an essential aspect of research supported by or showcased at Leddy Library. Here’s how:
Finding peer-reviewed sources: Leddy Library makes it easy to find peer-reviewed scholarly sources in our catalog. One way to do so is to filter your searches by “Peer-reviewed journals”. Another is to search for a journal in Ulrich’s International Periodical Directory – which is licensed by Leddy – to see if it is peer-reviewed. Our What Are Peer Reviewed Articles and How Do I Find Them? guide is a good place to start to learn more.
Archiving a peer-reviewed version of your article: Many publications in our institutional repository, Scholarship @ UWindsor, are what are called post-print or Author Accepted Manuscript versions of a research article. These are the versions of an article after peer-review edits have been made, but before copy edits and publisher branding/formatting have been implemented (more information about these distinctions is available on our institutional repository page).
Self-archiving this post-print (i.e. post-peer review) version of your article in a repository like Scholarship @ UWindsor is called Green Open Access, and it is a way to make your work openly accessible without paying an oftentimes expensive Article Processing Charge (APC).
Being a journal editor/peer reviewer: Peer review is an essential part of the workflow of the seventeen journals published by Leddy Library. Our journals are all hosted on Open Journal Systems (OJS), an open-source journal publishing platform provided by the Public Knowledge Project at Simon Fraser University. OJS has embedded peer review functionalities within the system, making it easy for peer reviewers to record editorial recommendations, provide comments to prospective authors and to their journal editors alike, and to perform multiple rounds of peer review if necessary. In OJS, journal editors can easily accept revised submissions based on peer-review feedback, automate notifications to authors informing them of their article’s status, and communicate with all those who hold a stake in the peer review processes of their journal.
If you are interested in creating a new journal and hosting it on Leddy Library’s OJS instance, we would be thrilled to help you do so! We can help with every aspect of this process, including helping you decide which type of peer review you would like to implement in your journal workflow.
Showcasing your work as a peer-reviewer: Leddy Library can also help you populate your ORCID profile. ORCID, or Open Researcher and Contributor ID, is essentially an online CV with which you can showcase your research, scholarship, and innovation activities. One of these activities is peer-review work. Please check out our ORCID Help Guide for more information. To learn specifically how your peer review work is added to your profile, go to the Populating Your Profile page of the guide, scroll down to the section titled “Information that can only be added by trusted individuals”, and click the “Peer review” tab.
Navigating policy and complying with mandates: The current Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications states that all peer-reviewed articles arising from agency-supported research must be made publicly available within twelve months of their publication. This policy is now under review. By the end of 2025, this timeline will change from within twelve months to immediately. At Leddy, we can help you understand this policy requirement and comply with it.
The Tri-Agency is made up of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
Please reach out to us at scholarship@uwindsor.ca for more information about peer review at Leddy Library and the University of Windsor. Happy Peer Review Week, everyone!
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