Is it true that Open Access articles and journals are not peer-reviewed?

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No. A journal”s economic or access policy does not determine its peer review policy. Most scholarly journals, whether open access or controlled-access journals, are peer-reviewed. There are both open and controlled journals that are not peer-reviewed.

Most major publishers now have an open access option for individual articles. This does not change the submission, peer review, or editorial process for those journals or articles.

Attribution: This FAQ is reused from Vanderbilt University Library's Open Access: Open Access Myths page (accessed Mar 2023) thanks to a Creative Commons license.
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  • Last Updated Mar 16, 2023
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  • Answered By Charles W. Uth

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