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23. Nazarovets, S., Silva, J. A. T. D., & Nazarovets, M. (2019). Challenge of Ukrainian
academic librarians in an evolving scholarly publishing landscape. The Journal of

Academic Librarianship, 45(1), 9–14. doi: 10.1016/j.acalib.2018.11.001

Ukrainian research institutes are under pressure as a direct result of limited funding in the face of
a prolonged economic crisis. This has also had a direct negative impact on librarians'

functionality, as they have seen increasing limitations on acquisitions. Despite economic
difficulties, Ukrainian academic librarians are trying to offer specialized services to their end-

users which involve active librarian mediation in the preparation and dissemination of the results
of the scientific work of these users. One notable feature is to provide users with support on how
pseudo-scientific journals are identified. In this paper, based on a survey of librarians from

leading Ukrainian universities, we first researched Ukrainian experts' key information resources
and tools to check the validity of scientific journals so that library users can be recommended as

credible outlets for disseminating research results.

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