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Is My Artistic Work Reviewed?

A reviewed work, peer review, is a work that has been assessed by other experts in your field as being of high quality. This is often scientific but can just as easily be artistic. Much of what we do as musicians is already reviewed, and this is partly what we rely on here. In an artistic context, peer-review means identifying the surrounding cultural life as an instance for peer review (refereed).

As a basis for an artistic publication/production to be considered peer-reviewed, it must have gained recognition within the professional artistic field it belongs to. It also establishes that the publication/production should have taken place in a "context where a peer-review-like assessment can be assumed to have been made."

Examples of this are:

  • All individual and institutional projects and concerts with direct or indirect state, regional, or municipal support.
  • All record releases that have received phonogram support from the Swedish Arts Council or are released on an established record label, as well as smaller record labels included in umbrella organisations.
  • Concerts recorded and broadcast by Swedish Radio (SR) or Swedish Television (SVT).
  • International productions and artistic projects.
  • Concerts and productions at international festivals in Sweden and abroad.

As can be seen, this encompasses a significant portion of the music life. This type of artistic work/output can be considered reviewed. If this is the case, then tick the box reviewed.

However, there is, of course, music of high artistic quality that falls outside these predefined frameworks. In that case, tick the box not reviewed.

Basic Criteria:

  • The publication/production should be of professional quality (this normally implies the involvement of exclusively professional forces; see Other for exceptions).
  • The production should be national or international and not solely of a local character.
  • The production should have been completed (commissioned work performed, engagement fulfilled, etc.).
  • An employed teacher/artist at Örebro University should participate in the publication/production in a significant function (e.g., soloist, ensemble leader, member of a small ensemble, composer, leading actor, director, producer, responsible sound engineer); this function should be clearly shown through, for example, an attached program leaflet, video recording, CD booklet, exhibition catalogue, newspaper article, or other public information about the publication/production.
  • The publication/production should be mainly of an artistic nature (not, for example, a lecture with musical elements).

For works that do not clearly fall within the framework of "reviewed" but still meet these criteria, there is a review committee with representatives from several music academies who jointly assess whether the work can be considered reviewed.