TY - JOUR AU - Babb, Maureen Nicole AU - Dingwall, Orvie PY - 2019/11/08 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - An Education Session Developed in Response to Low Health Professional Awareness of Predatory Journals JF - Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association / Journal de l'Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada JA - J Can Health Libr Assoc VL - 40 IS - 3 SE - Program Descriptions DO - 10.29173/jchla29389 UR - https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/jchla/index.php/jchla/article/view/29389 SP - 99-110 AB - <p>Predatory journals have arisen as a significant problem within scholarly literature and efforts to raise awareness about them have focused on researchers looking to publish their work.&nbsp; Because health professionals use scholarly literature to inform their practice, develop policy, and conduct their own research, they should be familiar with the harmfulness of predatory journals.&nbsp; This paper describes an education session delivered to health professionals throughout the province of X.&nbsp; Developed in response to health professionals’ low awareness of predatory journals, it was designed to raise awareness and to provide tools and techniques to critically appraise the scholarly literature.</p> ER -