Cabells

Cabells LibKey integration ending June 28, 2025

June 24, 2025: The LibKey integration that brought Cabells alerts about problematic and potentially predatory journals will end on June 28, 2025.

We were waiting for additional login functionality to be implemented before we officially announced this new functionality for our LibKey products, but you may have noticed these indicators of a problematic journal:

Screenshots of problematic journal alerts

You can still use Cabells directly by going through our link on this page: https://www.lsuhsc.edu/library/databases/cabells.

If you need more information about LibKey, you can learn all about the various LibKey products at https://libguides.lsuhsc.edu/browzine.

If you have any questions about this or any other Library resources, please contact us.

New Subscriptions Announcement: Cabells Journalytics Medicine and Predatory Reports

LSUHSC Libraries now subscribes to Cabells Journalytics Medicine and Predatory Reports. These products will assist authors with evaluating scholarly journals for quality and impact and identifying predatory publishers.

Journalytics Medicine provides detailed reports on over 9,000 medical journals to assess their scope, history, quality, and impact.

Predatory Reports offers the largest database of predatory journals with reports on over 17,000 titles. It tracks the use of misleading metrics, irregular publication practices, and other predatory characteristics and then details all violations for a transparent view of each journal.

Look for an upcoming class from the Libraries about these new Cabells products and learn how to use these powerful resources to get the highest impact for your journal publication.

Please contact us at reference@lsuhsc.edu with any questions.