It takes place globally during the September in a multitude of locations both on- and offline.

Typical activities include blogs, webinars, video and social media.

Since 2016, each week has been themed, with the most recent focussing on "Identity in Peer Review".

[1][2][3][4][5] Over 35 organizations now participate in the planning of the week, including scholarly societies, university libraries, publishers, vendors, funders and more.

Founding organisations included ORCID, ScienceOpen, Sense about Science and Wiley (publisher).