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SelfOne characteristic of self-published material is characterized by the ''lack of reviewers who are independent of the <u>author</u>'' (those withoutwho aare conflictnot ofhired interest)and validatingfired by the reliabilityauthor, ofand contents.whose employment does not depend upon agreeing with the author).

* The [[University of California, Berkeley]] library states: "Most pages found in general search engines for the web are self-published or published by businesses small and large with motives to get you to buy something or believe a point of view. Even within university and library web sites, there can be many pages that the institution does not try to oversee."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160510203400/https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Evaluate.html|title=Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask|website=[[University of California, Berkeley]]|date=May 8, 2012|archive-date=May 10, 2016|accessdate=July 11, 2020}}</ref>

* [[Princeton University]] offers this understanding in the publication ''Academic Integrity at Princeton'' (2018): "Unlike most books and journal articles, which undergo strict editorial review before publication, much of the information on the Web is self-published. To be sure, there are many websites in which you can have confidence: mainstream newspapers, refereed electronic journals, and university, library, and government collections of data. But for vast amounts of Web-based information, no impartial reviewers have evaluated the accuracy or fairness of such material before it’s made instantly available across the globe."<ref>{{cite book|url=https://odoc.princeton.edu/sites/odoc/files/950045_AcademicIntegrity2018-19_FINAL_PDF.pdf|title=Academic Integrity at Princeton|chapter=Nonprint and Electronic Sources|year=2018|accessdate=July 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200517105412/https://odoc.princeton.edu/sites/odoc/files/950045_AcademicIntegrity2018-19_FINAL_PDF.pdf|archive-date=May 17, 2020|website=[[Princeton University]]}}</ref>

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| Alice Expert writes about her experiment, and she hires a freelance editor to help her improve her draft before sending her book to a [[vanity press]]. If she disagrees with the editor, she can reject his advice, fire him, or (if the editor is employed by the self-publishing printer) go to a different printing house.

| Alice Expert writes about her experiment, and submitted it to the [[Editorial independence|independent editors]] of a magazine. If she disagrees with these editors, they won't publisher her article in their publication.

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===Self-published doesn't mean a source is automatically invalid===