Demystifying Peer Review: Using Open Peer Review in Information Literacy Instruction

Peer review pervades the academic library. In the information literacy (IL) classroom we teach students how to find peer-reviewed articles and engage students in understanding the peer-review process. Undoubtedly, peer review is part of the scholarly conversation, and falls under the Scholarship as a Conversation frame of ACRL\u27s Framework for Information Literacy. Yet, despite our best pedagogical efforts, the peer-review process can remain a mystery for students. How can we demystify it for them when it is hidden in a black box? Open peer review (OPR)--a form of peer review that rejects the black box and brings the process into the open--is a tool IL librarians can use to enable to students to better understand the process, as well as encourage them to engage in scholarly conversations