But the reviewers have no knowledge of this choice (nor should they really).<p>The parent was suggesting that Universities bar their faculty from reviewing papers unless it was an open-access publisher. I haven&#x27;t published in a Springer journal, but others have the authors make the open-access determination only after the paper was accepted. In which case, the <i>reviewers</i> would have no idea about if they were reviewing an open-access paper or not.