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This week F1000Research joins ORCID, ScienceOpen, Wiley, and the wider scientific community in a new initiative aimed at showcasing peer review: Peer Review Week!  This virtual event highlights the fundamental importance of peer review in science and promotes the many different forms it can take across the scientific spectra.

At F1000Research we’re proudly celebrating 3 years of open, post-publication peer review. One of our goals has been to champion transparency in the peer review process and to make the discussion between authors and referees an integral part of the publication: Articles are published before peer review (and are clearly labelled as such) and the peer review reports, reviewer names, and author responses are made available alongside the article as soon as they are received. This means that readers can follow the progress of the peer review, while having access to the full article and the reported findings without any delays.

In an effort to bring peer review to the fore, earlier this year F1000 partnered with ORCID and others to develop a practical approach to citing peer review activities. F1000Research started implementing this project this week and our referees can now easily reference the peer review they do for us on their ORCID profiles.

Today, we’ve compiled a list of peer-review-related posts that we hope you will find useful:

From F1000

What is open peer review?

What is post-publication peer review?

F1000 Faculty member peer review tips

A guide to open science publishing

From others

Sense about Science’s ‘Peer review—the nuts and bolts’

How to become good at peer review: a guide for young scientists

Are we training pitbulls to review our manuscripts?

A guide to peer review in ecology and evolution

 

The inaugural Peer Review Week is well underway, and ends today. Highlights include:

ORCID’s guest post on their new peer review functionality, from the Editorial Director of F1000Research

Interviews with Stockholm University scholars on their “dreams and visions about peer review” from the Stockholm University Press

Wiley webinar discussing “why trust and transparency are vital in peer review”

The continuing conversation on Twitter #PeerRevWk15

We encourage you to help support this initiative by engaging in the discussion and debate, beyond this week. Share resources your with colleagues, critically explore the many flavours of peer review, and advocate for improvement. Because every week is peer review week.