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Considering Developmental Peer Review, Wendi Arant Kaspar, Sarah Hare, Cara Evanson, Emily Ford Sep 2018

Considering Developmental Peer Review, Wendi Arant Kaspar, Sarah Hare, Cara Evanson, Emily Ford

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This editorial is a collaborative discussion of College & Research Libraries’ open peer review experiment, representing the unique perspectives and voices of those playing roles.


Scholarship As An Open Conversation: Using Open Peer Review In Library Instruction, Emily Ford Apr 2018

Scholarship As An Open Conversation: Using Open Peer Review In Library Instruction, Emily Ford

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This article explores the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy’s frame, Scholarship as a Conversation. This frame asserts that information literate students have the disposition, skills, and knowledge to recognize and participate in disciplinary scholarly conversations. By investigating the peer-review process as part of scholarly conversations, this article provides a brief literature review on peer review in information literacy instruction, and argues that by using open peer review (OPR) models for teaching, library workers can allow students to gain a deeper understanding of scholarly conversations. OPR affords students the ability to begin dismantling the systemic oppression that blinded peer review and …