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Cabells and Third Iron have collaborated to bring Cabells’ awareness of problematic journals and websites to LibKey! Using Cabells’ data, LibKey will now highlight when an article or website domain is associated with a journal or URL labeled as predatory in Cabells’ Journalytics data.
There are two features: Problematic Journals and Problematic Domains.
Problematic Journals:
With this feature if you look up an article DOI from a journal that appears in Cabells’ data, in LibKey.io, you’ll see when the article is from a Problematic Journal. This page will have a link to view the full report in Cabells Journalytics:
Any link resolver requests run through LibKey Link will also be checked against Cabells’ data and get routed to this landing page if applicable. Users will also see this “Problematic Journal” messaging:
And in LibKey Nomad (PubMed results):
Problematic Domains:
The Problematic Domain feature is unique to LibKey Nomad. This feature highlights when a user with Nomad installed visits a webpage associated with a journal domain name in Cabells’ predatory journal data. Nomad will highlight when the URL a user visits is in this data and show a Problematic Domain warning:
This Problematic Domain button will link to a LibKey landing page which summarizes the journals affiliated with that domain and the violations listed for them in Journalytics. There will again be a link to view the full report for all of these journals in Cabells Journalytics:
