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REVIEWERS’ INFORMATION PACK 1. ABOUT ELSEVIER 1.1. A Short History of Elsevier Whereas historians have recorded science and medicine’s key moments of progress – from Galileo’s celestial revelations to Fleming’s discovery of penicillin to the recent identification of SARS as a Corona virus – few have taken the time to examine the role that publishers have played in the history of science. Given that 2005 marked the 125th birthday of Elsevier and the 425th anniversary of the publishing house of Elzevir from which the modern company takes its name, the time seems right to redress that imbalance and reflect on the myriad ways in which Elsevier has played a role in the history of science for more than 130 years. In that time Elsevier has evolved from a small Dutch publishing house devoted to the promulgation of classical scholarship to an international multimedia publishing company that currently provides over 20,000 titles and products to science and healthcare communities worldwide. Elsevier’s history is one of a series of collaborations in the effort to advance science and health. The fruits of the collaboration between Elsevier and the eclectic group of scientific visionaries that it has published – ranging from Jules Verne to Stephen W. Hawking – are obvious. Less obvious, but no less important, are the cumulative efforts of the men and women who have dedicated their lives to disseminating and using scientific and medical knowledge: the editors, the printers, the librarians, the nurses, the doctors, the engineers, the information specialists, and the business people who coordinate the effort. Last but not least, Elsevier has enjoyed a number of crucial relationships with other great science publishers – North Holland, Excerpta Medica, Pergamon, Mosby, W. B. Saunders, Churchill Livingstone and Academic Press, to name but a few of the companies that are now part of the Elsevier family, bringing with them long and rich histories of their own. Above: ‘Le Patissier François’, printed in 1655 by Louis and Daniel Elzevir The use of the word ‘Elzevir’ as a noun describing a ‘pocket-book’ sized collector’s edition of the classics became quite commonplace in the educated parlance of the late nineteenth century. 2 www.elsevier.com/reviewers http://www.elsevier.com/reviewers

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Reviewers Informaton Pack 2013
Contents
About Elsevier
About Peer Review
Duties of Reviewers
Peer-Review System
Supporting Our Reviewers
Listening to Our Reviewers
A Brief Guide to Reviewing

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