Unsolicited solicitations: identifying characteristics of unsolicited emails from potentially predatory journals and the role of librarians | Journal of the Medical Library Association
This commentary provides a succinct overview of predatory journals; briefly describes the problem of predatory journal email solicitations; explains the role librarians can play in their identification; and lists some red flags and tactics librarians can tell researchers to look out for, as informed by the literature and the author's analysis of 60 unsolicited journal emails she received in her own institutional inbox.