... advantage. Academic libraries in Croatia mostly recognize the questionable publishers as a threat for OA. However, 40 per cent of libraries do not plan any form of education about OA literacy. Practical implications The results of this research can be a basis for creating programmes of user education...

.... Sanja Bunić can be contacted at: sanja.bunic@kgz.hr © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Homelessness Shelter Library services Employment Croatia In the course of our two years' work with the homeless, three homeless‐oriented library service models have emerged. All three models...

...Radovan Vrana Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present findings from the research of aspects of journal publishing in the field of social sciences in Croatia in changing working conditions caused by the rapid development of information and communication technology. Design/methodology...

... research and academic libraries. Online questionnaire was chosen as the most appropriate tool, as the authors wanted it to be anonymous and as quick as possible. Findings The findings indicate that all the academic librarians in Croatia are aware of the importance of institutional OA repositories...

...Radovan Vrana Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the current state of digitization and digital collection development in public libraries in Croatia. Design/methodology/approach This paper is based on an online survey of public libraries in Croatia on digital collection...

..., Croatia and Germany and indicates the points of difference and local requirements. The SAMARC (South African MARC) format was based on UNIMARC for 18 stated reasons, the most important of which were that: many acknowledged experts experienced in many national formats have been involved in designing...