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Reviewers’ Information Pack Supporting Peer-Review 5. SUPPORTING OUR REVIEWERS 5.1. Online Support Developed with the input of editors, authors and reviewers, our online support site provides information and answers to questions on a variety of editorial and production topics. Features include a continuously-growing knowledgebase of information, a powerful search tool, Hot Topics and News sections, comprehensive FAQ lists and a suite of EES Interactive Tutorials. Reviewers can contact our support team from the website via a user friendly ‘Contact Us’ web form or via Live Chat. Telephone contact details are also provided. Reviewers are encouraged to submit their feedback on the content and format of the online support site via the ‘Leave Feedback’ page or the ‘Rate this paper’ option available for all items on the website. The 24 / 7 online support site can be accessed from the Help and Contact Us links on all EES sites or directly at http://epsupport.elsevier.com Reviewers’ Home – our online resource for reviewers. Advice for reviewers, information on reviewing and questions answered at www.elsevier.com/reviewers. 5.2. Training • Online training tutorials for reviewers • Live and recorded training sessions of EES, SciVerse Scopus and SciVerse ScienceDirect on the Elsevier Training Desk http://trainingdesk.elsevier.com Features of the Online Support Site (http://epsupport.elsevier.com) • Dynamic content creation and system development • Powerful search tool • Live Chat • User friendly ‘contact us’ web form • Comprehensive FAQs • Solution finders • ‘Rate this article’ option 12 www.elsevier.com/reviewers http://trainingdesk.elsevier.com http://epsupport.elsevier.com http://www.elsevier.com/reviewers http://epsupport.elsevier.com http://www.elsevier.com/reviewers http://www.elsevier.com/reviewers

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Reviewers' Information Pack / Version 2.0

Reviewers' Information Pack / Version 2.0
Table of Contents
1. About Elsevier
1.1. A Short History of Elsevier
2. About Peer-Review
2.1. What Is Peer-Review?
2.2. Who Are Reviewers?
2.3. Why Reviewers Review?
2.4. Peer-Review Process
2.5. Types of Peer-Review
3. Duties of Reviewers
3.1. Contribution to Editorial Decisions
3.2. Promptness
3.3. Confidentiality
3.4. Standards of Objectivity
3.5. Acknowledgement of Sources
3.6. Disclosure and Conflict of Interest
3.7. Adherence to Elsevier Publishing Ethics
4. Peer-Review System
4.1. Elsevier Editorial System (EES)
4.2. Tools to Help
5. Supporting Our Reviewers
5.1. Online Support
5.2. Training
6. Listening to Our Reviewers
6.1. Reviewer Feedback Programme
6.2. Reviewers’ Home
6.3. Elsevier and Sense About Science Reviewer Survey
7. A Brief Guide to Reviewing
7.1. Purpose of Peer-Review
7.2. On Being Asked to Review
7.3. Conducting the Review
7.4. Communicating Your Report to the Editor

Reviewers' Information Pack / Version 2.0

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