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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.
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Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Reviewers Informaton Pack 2013
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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