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Open access (OA) publishing has become the dominant form of scientific communication. According to an earlier research, the share of OA in the total number of internationally visible papers by Croatian authors is 74 %. This study investigates the attitudes and publication practices of Croatian authors towards OA through a survey conducted among members of the znanstvenici.hr mailing list in early 2023. The survey aimed to determine their support for OA publishing, recognition of its positive and negative aspects, motives for choosing OA publishing, funding sources, and preferences for certain OA publishers. A total of 1,041 participants responded to the survey, with 763 fully completing the questionnaire. The majority of respondents (over 60 %) were active in the fields of sciences, social sciences, and engineering. Analysis of their publication output during the 2021-2022 period revealed that 43.6 % of respondents did not publish a single article in a Croatian journal, with the highest proportion (71 %) observed in the sciences. In contrast, 9.7 % did not publish in foreign journals, with 32 % of these respondents coming from the humanities. Among those who published in foreign journals, approximately 50 % published at least one paper in subscription journals, and the same proportion published in fully open access journals with article processing charge (APC) payments. One-fifth of the authors published their papers for free in fully open access journals, either through invitation or by utilizing coupons for free publication. Coupons were the most commonly used source for APC payments. The majority of respondents (75 %) expressed support for OA publishing and acknowledged its advantages in scientific research and the educational process. Over 80 % of respondents agreed that OA facilitates faster and more efficient dissemination of new knowledge, and increases readership, and enhances the visibility of research papers. However, when selecting a journal for publication, respondents were primarily motivated by the journal’s reputation and impact rather than its open access status. Nearly one-third of the surveyed authors believed that OA increases the commercialization of scientific publishing and that the rising number of publications diminishes the quality of peer review. Attitudes towards publishing in fully open access journals operating exclusively with the APC financing model varied among respondents. Those with a positive attitude were motivated by the speed of peer review and publication process, while those with a negative attitude believed that publishers of APC-charging OA journals prioritize profit over the quality of published articles. Additionally, some respondents mentioned that they could not afford to pay APC, or chose not to pay due to their opposition to any obstacles hindering the publication of scientific results. The survey results indicate that Croatian authors, even when lacking sufficient means, are more inclined to pay publication costs rather than ensuring open access through archiving their papers in public digital repositories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyses the new regulation of citizens’ rights in the Republic of Croatia established in the early 1990s. As part of the paper, a brief overview of the regulation of citizens’ rights in Croatia on the eve of democratic changes has been given. The author elaborates on the arrangement of citizens’ rights according to the Constitution of the Republic of Croatia of 1990 and the regulation of citizens’ rights in the period from the adoption of the Constitution until the declaration of independence on 8 October 1991. In addition, the author analyses the regulations on citizens’ rights since 8 October 1991 and the rules on citizens’ rights enacted after the declaration of independence. The main conclusion of the paper is that in the early 1990s, there was a significant break with the tradition in the direction of stronger emphasis on the individual position of a citizen and the protection of their rights. Similarly, the author points out that the transition to a new model of regulation of citizens’ rights was hindered by wartime circumstances and the restrictions on citizens’ rights that were introduced as a result of those circumstances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Vincenzo Virginio was born in 1752 in the city of Cuneo in Piedmont. He got a degree in ecclesiastical and civil law in Turin, as it was the tradition of his family. Agronomy, however, was his first choice and passion. A big altruist and philanthropist, he was deeply moved by the poverty and famine that often befell the population of Piedmont in the second half of the eighteenth century, so he decided to use his talent and financial resources to overcome prejudices against planting and consuming potatoes. His work made him famous, but it also completely drained his financial resources. Hence, in 1807 he accepted the invitation of Vincenzo Dandolo, general governor of Dalmatia, to come to Zadar and help him in his efforts to advance agriculture and provision supply of the people in Dalmatia. He stayed for a year in Zadar after which, due to ill health and family matters, he had to go back to Piedmont. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last few years, we are witnessing a resurgence of populist radical rightwing parties all over Europe as well as in Croatia. In the 2020 parliamentary elections in Croatia, populist radical right parties achieved the best overall result since the Croatian independence. However, in Croatian scientific bibliography there are very few studies regarding that topic. The aim of the paper is to examine the geography of support for the Homeland Movement, the strongest populist radical right party in Croatia. The research is based on the comparison between the results of four statistical methods (OLS, LISA, GWR, MGWR). Results have shown limitations of global models and benefits of employing multiscale and geographically weighted models. Analysis points to COVID-19 vaccination rate followed by religiosity as the most vital factors explaining the voting for the Homeland Movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose. The objective of this research is to explore if and in what way Croatian public libraries mark Banned Books Week, an event that celebrates the freedom to read, usually in the last week of September. Approach/methodology/design. First, by searching the websites of the libraries as well as their Facebook profiles, we identified the libraries that celebrate Banned Books Week. In addition, Google was also searched according to the precisely defined keywords. Furthermore, a content analysis of the identified news and announcements was carried out. The research was first conducted in October 2021, and then repeated at the end of September and the beginning of October 2022. The goal was to determine if any new public libraries have commemorated this event in the meantime. Findings. The research has shown that only twenty Croatian public libraries (out of 234) celebrated Banned Books Week, which is only 8.55% of all public libraries. The oldest posted news available online about the celebration of this event in Croatia dates back to 2011, which leads us to the conclusion that Banned Books Week has only been celebrated for the last ten years, and often without continuity. The event has been cele- brated usually very modestly, with only a few examples that are more creative. From the above, it can be concluded that Banned Books Week in Croatian public libraries is still not celebrated to a greater extent, and that this project has not fully taken root. Limitations. Since the total number of libraries in Croatia is very large it would be difficult to cover all libraries in one research, so this research has been limited to public libraries only. In addition, it is very likely that neither the selected ways of identifying libraries that celebrate Banned Books Week nor the chosen search strategies are the only possible ones. Practical use. The paper presents various possibilities and ways of celebrating this event. It is also an invitation to other libraries to join in the celebration of freedom of reading and open access to information. Social significance. The paper points to the important role of public libraries, as well as libraries in general, in the fight against censorship of the written word, advocating the idea of freedom of reading and intellectual freedom in general, and thus emphasizes their role in building and development of a democratic society. Originality/value. The value of the paper lies in the fact that it presents the research of a topic that is insufficiently represented in Croatia. So far, no similar research on the Banned Books Week in Croatia has been conducted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

he article focuses on social democracy in Croatia and on electoral demand in the context of the general crisis and declining political support for social democracy. The paper seeks to contribute to the understanding of the state of social democracy in Croatia, by examining the relationship between voter ideological self-identification and party preferences regarding social democracy and voting for the SDP. The analysis uses data obtained through field surveys from 1999 to 2020, to identify factors that influence social democratic voters to vote for the party that represents this political ideology – the SDP. The paper tests a generalized linear mixed model in which survey years are treated as random effects. Self-identification on the left-right scale, as well as the attitude on abortion are found to be significant factors explaining why some social democrats vote for the SDP and others do not, with SDP voters leaning towards more left-wing positions and being more likely to support a woman’s free choice on abortion when compared to other social democratic voters. The random effect of survey years has shown low variability, but the amplification of the impact of the fixed effects is evident for 2003 and 2012, where we can see fragmentation and consolidation, respectively, of social democratic voter support for SDP. The model points to the importance of ideological self-identification for voter orientation even among voters from the same ideological camp. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic that started at the beginning of 2020 has put great constraints and significant challenges in organization of social and economic life. This paper analyses the civil society response to the COVID-19 pandemic and presents specific adaptations and opportuni)ties to contribute to the society in the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. The stories that civil society organizations published on the webpage ZADobroBIT.hr have been analysed by the means of a qualitative research. Thematic analysis in different scopes of activities shows that civil society organizations were more focused on the general population and various vulnerable groups. Vulnerable groups were recognized as those needing particular additional support in the course of this period. The activities aiming at general population focused on newly emerged needs related to civil protection. Civil society also worked on keeping the everyday routines in communities by conducting various types of activities. Informing and educating aimed at creating new and maintaining existing information and educational practices that adapted to pandemic circumstances. The results of the research show also that organizations have significantly changed, and quickly adapted their work with the help of technology and by using volunteer work. The results of the analysis suggest that civil society has proved flexible and able to respond quickly to emerging social needs, but also emphasized the contextual limitations of the ac)tions. Thus, the paper discusses the position and role of civil society in the “new normal“, and the impact it has on its further development in the Croatian social and political environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper relates to the concept of citizen in the Croatian and Yugoslav constitutional orders from 1944 until 1990. The paper deals with the analysis of the most important constitutional acts that affected citizens starting from those enacted by the Yugoslav and Croatian authorities at the end of the Second World War and its aftermath. In addition, the paper conducts an analysis into the federal and republican constitutional law of 1953, federal and republican constitution of 1963 and federal and republican constitution of 1974. The paper sets forth that the authorities shaped the concept of citizen in line with the socialistic principles while at the same time gradually abandoning individual approach towards citizens. In addition, it is pointed out that socialistic constitutions emphasized class terminology in their constitu)tional texts and interests of the community over the individual interests. Furthermore, the paper indicates that in the constitutional acts, specifically those enacted in the aftermath of the Second World War and in the acts of 1974, the authority emphasized ethnic equality as an important feature of the constitution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper provides an overview of the contribution of Croatian researchers, primarily scientists and associates from the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb, to research and teaching of political communication, political marketing and public relations in Croatia. All three disciplines belong to the field of strategic communication, which refers to a purposeful use of communication by individuals, organizations, institutions or states aimed at achieving their strategic goals. The paper shows how Croatia, despite its belated enrolment in the market communication, quickly caught up with international research and academic trends in the field. The role of the Faculty in this process was the one of a pioneer and a leader. Researchers from the Faculty, as well as other Croatian scientists, have been contributing to the conceptualization and comparative analyses of contemporary election campaigns, as well as to the research of the phenomena of Americanization, personalization, packaging of politics, populism, celebrity populism, disinformation, e-democracy, cyber politics and others. In the field of public relations, particularly noteworthy are contributions related to image, identity and nation branding, crisis communication, strategic communication in tourism and evaluation in public relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present and analyze public policy research in the context of the development of Croatian political science, while also probing the relationship between public policy research within political science and its application through other sciences and interdisciplinary areas in Croatia. After the introduction, in the first part of the paper, the concept of public policy is delineated and the development of the theoretical discourse that was formed around public policies as a rational system of state intervention in society that strives for good governance is presented. In the second part, the context-specific development of public policy research within the framework of Croatian political science is analyzed and interpreted. In the third part, this development is linked to the examples of policy relevant research and teaching in other academic institutional foci and discourses that deal with public policies. In the conclusion, the current state of public policy research is evaluated and possible future directions of research development and academic influence on public policy making are outlined within and across the borders of political science. Our thesis – or, more precisely, a value-driven projection – is that in front of public policy as a theoretically and methodologically constituted subject of research and the political science sub-discipline, stronger interdisciplinary cooperation outside the framework of political science asserts itself as a major practical challenge ahead in the joint task of solving relevant public problems in the political community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper offers a historical overview of the development of the study of Croatian politics at the Faculty of Political Science. The pre-democratic period was marked by relatively unfavorable conditions for the study of national politics, due both to the dominant conception of the curriculum that denied the independence of political science, as well as the political and social context. Yet, already in the 1960s and 1970s, first studies dealing with voter behavior and the functioning of representative bodies were conducted. The multiple transition in late 1980s and early 1990s introduced new topics and led to the emancipation of national political science. After 2000, the study of Croatian politics experienced new diversity in method and scope. Recently, there has been a significant increase in papers published in top international journals, leading to greater visibility and internationalization of the study of Croatian politics, but also of Croatian political science in general. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the articles published in the Journal Safety by using the basic bibliometric indicators. The sample consisted of 250 categorized articles published over a ten year period, from 2005 until 2015. The analysis has shown that the most common articles were review papers (32.4%), then professional papers (32%), original scientific papers (25.2%), preliminary notes (9.2%), conference papers (0.8%) and professional views (0.4%). Most articles were written in the Croatian language (90%) indicating a regional character of the Journal. Journal Safety is included in the multidisciplinary bibliographic and citation database Scopus from vol. 51, 2009, multidisciplinary database Academic Search Complete (ASC) from EBSCO Corps-led database of 50 vol. 2008. Also, it is fully indexed in the disciplinary database ProQuest Biological Science & Health Professional completely from 1992. Visibility Magazine Security is enabled by providing access to full texts of publications available through the Portal of Scientific Journals of Croatia - Hrčak from vol. 47 (2005), No. 1. was included in Hrčak on March 1, 2006. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim/purpose. The aim of the paper is to point out the social impact of public libraries in the crisis situation caused by the COVID-19 disease pandemic in the context of their position within the contemporary concept of smart cities, whose starting point is that information, knowledge, digitalization and technology (intellectual capital) are drivers of the economy and overall social development. Approach/methodology. The benchmarking method is used. The Croatian practice in which libraries are, for the most part, not yet recognized as an integral part of the concept and strategy of smart cities has been compared with the library practice in Singapore, the world leader in libraries' involvement in the national strategy of a smart nation. The analysis of social media posts compares the business strategies used by the Singapore's and Croatian public libraries in public relations during the first wave of the COVID-19 disease pandemic in the first half of 2020. Their goal was to maintain the social impact of libraries after the closure of physical spaces during quarantine (lock-down) in order to continue to perform informational, educational, cultural and social roles and tasks in digital or electronic form. The subject of the comparison is the posting on Twitter from February to September 2020 in the case of libraries in Singapore, and two public libraries in Croatia on Facebook from March to September 2020. The two Croatian libraries operate in the two leading Croatian smart cities - in the category of large Croatian cities it is The Rijeka City Library, and the category of medium-sized Croatian cities it is The Fran Galović Public Library in Koprivnica. The results. The paper results provide new insights into the business operation of libraries in crisis situations in Croatia and abroad with regard to their place in the strategic-developmental and political-management concepts of their countries and communities. Practical implications. An insight into the activities of libraries during the COV-ID-19 disease pandemic is a contribution to the consideration of library practices in a crisis situation on the one hand, and a basis for planning systematic crisis management in Croatian libraries both nationally and locally. Originality/value. This paper, for the first time in Croatian library discourse, analyzes the importance of libraries in a crisis situation, and their position in the economic-developmental and political-management concept of smart cities / smart societies / smart nations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose. The aim of the paper is to present the results of the research of users of the Library and Reading Room Bogdan Ogrizović, Zagreb City Libraries about the use of library resources in the crisis caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the COVID-19 illness it causes. Approach/methodology/design. A printed questionnaire was used as a principal method for research in the premises of the Library and Reading Room Bogdan Ogrizović, Zagreb City Libraries on a convenience sample of research participants. Findings. The results of the research have shown a continuing interest of the library users for the Library and Reading Room Bogdan Ogrizović, Zagreb City Libraries in spite of an emergency situation caused by Covid. The results have also shown an increased use of digital information resources in the period of time when the library was closed due to the pandemic. The results showed which library services were used the most when the library was closed also due to the pandemic. Furthermore, the results indicated a dominant orientation of the library users towards printed library material as well as the desire for the increased acquisition of this type of library material, together with the digital versions in the future. Practical implications. The results of the research of library users in the Library and Reading Room Bogdan Ogrizović, Zagreb City Libraries are applicable in the planning process of library material acquisition as well as for the development of annual programs in libraries and long-term plans of development of digital information resources in public libraries. Social implications. The paper indicates a stable position of public libraries in local communities and the constant need of users for public libraries in an emergency situation caused by the pandemic and an earthquake. Therefore, public libraries continue being a pillar of society in emergency situations and crises offering their information and related library services to the local community. Originality/value. The research of the library users of the Library and Reading Room Bogdan Ogrizović, Zagreb City Libraries was conducted during ongoing emergency situation and crisis which is a topic less researched in public libraries. The research in this article is a rare example of an investigation of public library users in a real emergency situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose. The paper provides a bibliography of scientific and professional papers of Croatian authors on the education of information professionals in three branches of information and communication sciences: archives and documentation, librarianship, and museology. The aim of the paper is to provide quantitative and qualitative insights into Croatian scientific and professional production in the mentioned areas and to indicate its importance in the establishment of the field of information sciences in Croatia. Methodology. In order to find the relevant papers on the subject the following sources have been searched: the Croatian Scientific Bibliography, Hrčak - Portal of Scientific Journals of the Republic of Croatia, the catalog of the National and University Library of Zagreb, the bibliographic, citation and full text databases in the field of social sciences available through the Electronic Source Portal for the Croatian Academic and Scientific Community, and finally the Google Scholar search engine. In an effort to keep the bibliography as complete as possible, the lists of literature in the identified works were also searched, and for this reason, the bibliography can be considered to be made de visu. The collected bibliography entries were analyzed from the quantitative and qualitative perspectives as well as by the authorship, types of papers, and language. Findings. The quantitative analysis showed that the first papers appeared in the early 1950s, and that even then much thought was given to the education of information professionals. This interest intensified in the mid-1980s and has not faded since then, but rather has grown. The largest number of papers appeared in the first decade of the 21st century. The reasons should probably be found not only in the rapid development of information and communication technologies but also in the introduction of the Bologna process into the Croatian higher education institutions, and the consequent adaptations and changes that had to be made in the curriculum and education of information professionals. The qualitative analysis has shown that a large number of papers were devoted to this topic. More than half of the papers were co-authored by two or more authors, which indicates good professional cooperation between the members of the Croatian professional and scientific community dealing with the issues of education of information professionals. The fact that a relatively large number of papers was presented at foreign conferences, and that a significant number of papers was written in English, indicate the importance of the contribution of Croatian authors to the understanding of this issue at the global level. Originality/value. The thematic bibliography of this type has not been made before. The paper is also a stimulus for a new generation of scientists and experts to further explore the topic of education of information professionals who should constantly work on their professional development and learn how to adapt to new information and communication technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose. The aim of this paper is to describe and critically analyse the application of citation analysis in the evaluation of the "Andrija Štampar" Library collection, an academic library of the Zagreb University School of Medicine, the School of Public Health in Croatia. Methodology/Approach. A total of 235 master's theses from the Graduate Program of Studies in Nursing at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine in the period from 2014 to 2017 were examined using citation analysis. The selected sample of master's theses has a broad range of specialisations which encompass key disciplines in medical sciences. Results. The results show that the library collection meets the needs of this specific group of users. The study revealed that the journals were the most preferred source of information used by the students in the field of nursing, accounting for 55.7% of total citations. The nursing students used the journals familiar to them that are easily accessible and available in open access. Practical implications. This paper indicates that citation analysis is a valid method for collecting indicators on the actual use of library information sources. Originality The paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the quality of library collections in the academic library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the connection between education and divorce in Croatia. Who gets divorced more often, people with more or less education? Are there gender differences? Is the educational gradient in the risk of divorce changing with time (across marriage cohorts)? The paper searches for answers by using individual (micro) data from the vital statistics of marriages and divorces. The data were linked to allow observation of all the couples who married for the first time between 1989 until 2014 from the wedding until the divorce or until the termination in observation. The results obtained by using the event history methods show that, on average, across all marriage cohorts, education influences the risk of divorce for men negatively, and for women positively. Regarding changes in time, for both genders there are indications that those with low(est) education levels get divorced most frequently. This can lead them into an even more unfavourable position, since the divorce most frequently has negative consequences, so the future research should examine what implications our empirical results have on social inequality in Croatia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Archival public relations are defined as a complex communicational process (by focusing on the coordination of the public and private interests) whose purpose is supposed to manage the archives' public image and, depending on the possibilities, support its marketing (advertising) activities. The special emphasis within analysing possibilities of the applicability of public relations in the activities of contemporary archives is put on publications, since they are one of the best known and most popular archival programs. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the historical development of publishing activities of Croatian archives, as well as the contemporary managerial process of archival publishing as a promotional tool and in the context of the public relations. The analysis of the historical development of the publishing activities of Croatian archives had been based on the available literature, as well as documents of the individual archives and Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia. The research in the network of the state archives (regional archives and the Croatian State Archives) on managing the publishing activities had been conducted on a onetime basis via the questionnaire in the period from the 2nd to 7th March 2022. The main finding of the analysis is that the Croatian archives soon became aware of the techniques of early public relations' models and tried to implement them to the publishing activities. The strategic planning of their publishing activities, including the analysis of preferences of archival public based on the continuing interpersonal communication between archives and users, as well as the analysis of the communication with potential media and wider general public, can be considered as the important segment of public relations, whose purpose ought to be part of the archival management. The specified models imply a two-way symmetry of the public relations. Due to the fact that already in the mid-20th century the planning of publishing activities included interpersonal communication with actual users of archival services, it implies an early implementation of informational-communicational aspects in the strategic planning of archival program activities meant for their users i.e. the attempt of integration of the discipline of the public relations in archival project management. The publishing activities within the primary tasks of the archival network of state archives in independent Republic of Croatia formally kept continuity based on the existing Archives and Archival Institutions Act. Publishing of archival publications is stimulated by users' needs for better understanding and finding of archival records, as well as by archives' endeavours to increase as much as possible the sales of their services. According to the available information on the websites of the Croatian archives, and catalogues of the National and University Library in Zagreb on their publications from 1991 to 2022 (published on their own or co-published with other institutions), it can be concluded that archival publishing activities have gone into full swing after democratic changes. Still, the publishing policy did not undergo major changes compared to the earlier period. After 1991 the publishing activities are still mostly focused on publication of archival sources with the aim of increasing their availability. Apart from that, the results of research concerning the contemporary archival publishing activities in Croatia as promotional tools and in the context of the public relations indicate the need for their reorganisation, especially in the phase of strategic planning and evaluation, with additional stimulation of the development of digital versions of archival publications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In 2020, two devastating earthquakes hit the area of the City of Zagreb and Sisak-Moslavina County. On that occasion, numerous historical buildings in which cultural and educational institutions have been placed were damaged. Due to the safety of employees and users, libraries within the institutions (schools, museums, etc.) were temporarily closed. Many librarians were affected by the quake in their private lives, too - some of them lost their homes, some had to move temporarily out of the damaged buildings, houses, and flats, or take care of the safety of their families. At the same time, at work, in their libraries, they did not have regular working conditions. An additional challenge was restoring library buildings, protecting the material, and returning the libraries to a functional state, all in the circumstances of the prescribed epidemiological measures due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Extraordinary circumstances caused by the pandemic and earthquakes have also affected the services provided to the users by the different types of libraries. Only in 2020, due to the impossibility of visiting libraries in person, did users recognize the importance and usefulness of virtual services that were available earlier as well. The paper describes the categorization of the damage caused to buildings in which some libraries operated, the work of librarians in special circumstances, and the adaptation of existing as well as the development of new library services. Significant professional assistance and support to librarians in the earthquake-affected areas have continuously been provided by the Croatian Institute of Librarianship, which operates at the National and University Library in Zagreb, as well as by professional library associations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides a clear insight into the quality of life on the level of housing estates in European countries. In doing so, the questions of housing and satisfaction with the housing situation in the estates as well as with surrounding areas and the neighbourhood, in general, is being considered as an important dimension of a complex research concept called the quality of life. In analysing the quality of housing, we inevitably encounter an interesting division into the so-called two different versions of Europe or two types of housing estates. In the phase of planning and constructing, they shared a common idea of designing modern and functional, mixed estates that would solve the housing question of most residents, i.e. of different social classes. However, the first type is marked by the socio-historical context of Western Europe, and the second by Eastern Europe, or as some authors like to frame it, the differences in housing quality between 'capitalist' and 'socialist' cities. From that perspective specifically, it seems useful to analyse the quality of life and the possibility of renewing both types of housing estates, by now deprived and decrepit, built after the Second World War in both types of cities. This applies equally to those in Western Europe, often marked by a significantly worse image and higher levels of socioeconomic problems (crime, segregation, deterioration and other), as well as the estates in post-socialist Europe, where large housing estates built during the socialist period remain a desirable housing option, but that are increasingly facing problems related to maintenance and upkeep of buildings and built environments (both public and communal spaces). In the last decades, in both types of estates there has been an increasing depopulation of middle and higher classes of residents, which progressively causes segregation but also deterioration in the social and physical sense. All the mentioned negative aspects of the housing quality require adopting national housing strategies and renewal programs which exist and are implemented in Western European countries, while they do not exist in most post-socialist countries, and Croatia is not an exception. Housing estates renewal should be an essential part of every country's housing policy, aimed at alleviating or preventing further degradation of the quality of life for housing estate residents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Paleoenvironmental changes are the subject of numerous scientific studies. For their reconstruction, paleoclimatic or paleoenvironmental indirect indicators, sensitive to changes in climatic and environmental parameters that indicate climatic and environmental conditions, are used. One of the very valuable and reliable indicator is variation in the isotopic composition of cave speleothems. As isotope variations in speleothems depend on complex processes, the way they are interpreted differs. On condition that calcium carbonate has been precipitated under equilibrium conditions, variations of 18O/16O and 13C/12C in calcite speleothems can provide information on changes in the environment. This paper gives an overview of the basic laws of paleoenvironmental reconstruction, primarily climatic and vegetation conditions, based on the speleothem isotopic composition, the synthesis of previous research conducted in Croatia as well as preliminary information on recent research on speleothems with phreatic overgrowth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to analyze the spatial distribution of libraries in the Republic of Croatia. To this end, the structure of the library network in the Republic of Croatia and the hierarchy of library centers (municipalities and cities that have a library) is presented, while the development of libraries and its usage are analyzed through selected indicators. A comparison of the development of libraries has been made according to macro-regions, counties and local government units. Furthermore, the current situation has been compared to the state of the library system in 1990. The collected data is analyzed and presented using graphical and cartographic methods. Based on the conducted analysis, it can be stated that the network of public libraries in Croatia is relatively well developed, but there are still some areas where further development can be implemented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Question of copyright in the latest amendments to the Croatian Law on science and higher education regarding institutional repositories have not been adequately resolved, despite the proclaimed and imposed duties on the institutions of high education to copy the final papers in the institutional and university repositories. The burden imposed on academic institutions would be more effective if it would be imposed on the authors, who are the correct adresse to the issue from the legal perspective. Burden to resolve the issue of recquired permissions of the authors - students, was also effectively put on the academic institutions as a real result of those legislative actions, due to the legal frame of copyrights that were not changed. Institutions of high education on the other hand, in their internal acts largely missed to install the firm legal frame on how to deal with permission of the authors to publish their works. This could be imposed as a condition of enrollment or completion of studies, or put completely on a voluntary basis, but the unified solutions and uniform model for the copyright permissions in the form of either contract or a statement, has not yet been put in practice. Nevertheless, institutions adressed the problem in various, not allways adequate ways. Even if this could seem as a minor problem in the constitution of fully functional system of institutional repositories of final papers on institutions of high education in Croatia, it nevertheless can pose as an obsticle. Specially to the extent of the project, if there would be authors, students or in later stages, PhD students or academic employees, willing to use the present state to intedict their permission out of various motives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the form and content of the sixteen scientific conferences "Rijeka and its Citizens in Medical History" ("Rijeka i Riječani u medicinskoj povjesnici") which were held in the period between 2000 and 2016 according to the archive data of the conference organizer Croatian Scientific Society for the History of Health Culture. It presents data about the beginning of science convention, some its organisational features and the number of participants. A total of 315 presentations, whose abstracts were published in individual conference's abstract books, were given at the sixteen conventions by 463 participants from Croatia and abroad. It is emphasized that the great number of the papers printed in extenso are published in the journal AMHA - Acta medico-historica Adriatica. Summarised quantity data on the number of presented papers, number of presenters and number of co-authored papers are given. Finally, a review of the significance of this convention within the regional, national and international aspect is given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to point out the importance of libraries in tourism, especially the library information services, and to contribute to the research in this field. Design/methodology/approach. The paper presents the results of a research on library information services and the role of libraries in tourism in Croatia. The research was conducted on the sample of 34 libraries, and the respondents were the directors of both independent libraries and libraries within other institutions. The role of libraries in providing access to information in tourism was examined in respect to the library collections, library activities in tourism, and the engagement of libraries in tourism events. Findings. The results have shown that the contribution of libraries to tourism is higly significant, since libraries hold collections and literature which provide information, theoretical and research support to scientists, professionals, and others engaged in tourism research, as well as to users who are in any way connected to tourism. On the other hand, the library collections and resources are highly informative for tourists, and the tourists can learn a lot about the local culture in libraries. Research limitations/implications. In this paper, the aspect of informational function of libraries in tourism was investigated from the point of view of libraries. In order to understand the issue better, it is necessary to carry out further research in the field on users and their perspective. Originality/value. Since the role of libraries in tourism has not been investigated enough, this paper introduces a valuable research on this topic trying to assess the contribution of informational role of libraries in tourism based on the empirical data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The founder of the Vienna School of Ophthalmology was Prof. Dr. Georg Joseph Beer, who founded the First University Eye Clinic in the Vienna General Hospital in 1812. Prof. Ferdinand von Arlt led it for 27 years from 1856 to 1883. As the First Eye Clinic became too small, the Second University Eye Clinic was founded in 1883 at the same hospital in Vienna. Since 1885 it had been led for 30 years by Prof. Ernst Fuchs. Many well-known ophthalmologists were leading those Viennese eye clinics. However, Arlt and Fuchs were the main representatives of the Vienna School of Ophthalmology, which was always characterised by the high standards in the diagnosis and therapy of eye diseases. Many Croatian ophthalmologists were educated by them or their students, and later they established eye departments in the major cities in Croatia and transmitted acquired knowledge and experience. The first eye departments in Croatia were formed at the turn of the 19th and 20th century. The First University Eye Clinic in Croatia started to work in Zagreb in 1923. Our ophthalmologists transmitted the organisation of the clinics as they existed in Vienna, and that was the matrix form of all European clinics at that time. Therefore, the tradition of the Vienna School of Ophthalmology was passed on to the next generations. The paper also gives short biographies of Viennese and Croatian ophthalmologists and their mutual relations in education and work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents a folk recipe collection manuscript written by an unknown author in Poljica area, in the 18th century. It is owned by the philologist, historian of literature and bibliophile, Josip Bratulic. Therefore, the author suggests that this recipe collection should bear the name Great folk medicine book from Poljica (Bratulic's folk medicine book). The manuscript is written in Latin script and Croatian language. It consists of 288 pages written in black ink and contains more than 1,100 recipes making it one of the largest known manuscripts. Although well preserved, a small part of it is unreadable. Most recommended recipes are for treating humans and domestic animals, while several recipes contain household tips. The abundance of its content, expressions, and healing instructions add this recipe collection to other similar manuscripts of this region, which create precious part of the Croatian medical, pharmaceutical, and cultural heritage [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the development and business of the chemical-pharmaceutical factory Rave PLC, founded in Zagreb in 1922. Based on archival and building documentation, professional and daily newspapers, and promotional material, the formation of the factory complex in the Zagreb industrial zone was reconstructed, its marketing strategy and its impact on the development of domestic drug production and hygiene and sanitary necessities were presented. As an important motive for its operations, the factory emphasized industrial independence, the national features of its business and the promotion of cooperation with young domestic industry. In accordance with the above-mentioned text, Rave PLC participates in the construction and development of domestic pharmaceutical production and market, encouraging the development of modern industry and struggle for more favourable conditions of its business. Its unprecedented history is an important segment of our pharmaceutical past, but also an indispensable element of knowing the industrial development of the wider region. This segment of the beginnings of pharmaceutical manufacturing is essential in knowing the origins of entrepreneurship in our region as a significant element in raising awareness of national production, development and identity [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Medicine and physicians in Dubrovnik during the last two centuries, i.e. in the period after the dissolution of the Republic of Dubrovnik by Napoleon's Army, have attracted less interest among medical historians. In this paper, the lives and medical careers of two physicians from Dubrovnik, father and son, Baldo and Ante Bibica, have been reconstructed from the end of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century by searching through the contemporary medical journals and newspapers as well as private archives of the members of family Bibica. Baldo Bibica graduated medicine in Vienna and spent the whole professional life as a municipal physician, at first, in the places in the vicinity of Dubrovnik and from 1903 in Gruž. Ante Bibica studied medicine in Graz and in Zagreb to become the first person from Dubrovnik promoted at the School of Medicine, Zagreb University. He specialized in dermatovenereology in Vienna and worked, as a specialist, in Dubrovnik. They both were active in the professional medical societies (at local and national levels) and were influential in the social life in Dubrovnik. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Plague epidemics have remained in the collective consciousness until nowadays remembered as the deadliest. Therefore, it is not surprising that the answers to them throughout history have been not only medical but also religious. The previously mentioned will be analyzed in this paper through the cults of the protector saints against the plague epidemics that have developed in two Croatian cities of comparable size, Rijeka and Osijek, but with the diametrically opposed geographical positions and, accordingly, quite different historical developments. On the one hand, a more detailed overview of the development of the cults of various saints present in the mentioned cities will be presented. On the other hand, based on their presentation in the sacral heritage of these cities, the broader context of the time and space in which they have developed will be lightened. Particular attention will be paid to their medical connotations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Order of St. Augustine (Ordo Eremitarum Sancti Augustini) was the first religious community in Rijeka. The monastery of St. Jerome, founded by the noble families of Devin and Walsee, existed from the 14th century till 1788, when it was dissolved by Joseph II. Unfortunately, the past of the Augustine Monastery of St. Jerome is mostly unknown. On the basis of largely unexplored sources in Croatia and overseas, the author reveals several facts about the relation between Rijeka's Augustinian community and medicine. The paper includes an important piece of information concerning the existence of a hospital on the location of Andrejšćica in Rijeka, founded in the 15th century, which has so far been unknown. Augustinian's sources (16th and 18th century) show the presence of several shaver-surgeon (barbitonsorius) and other various relevant topics for the history of medicine in Rijeka - pharmacopola, aromatarius etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to explore financing of the social welfare homes for the elderly and infirm in Croatia. Apart from the legislative framework, the state expenditures for 1) operation of homes founded by the Republic of Croatia, 2) operation of decentralised homes (homes for which the founding rights were passed by the Republic of Croatia to the regional self-government units, i.e. the City of Zagreb and 3) homes users who are not able to pay for their accommodation, even with the help of their families or selling their own real property. The paper shows that the state expenditure for homes in 2014 amounted to almost 250 million HRK, with most of the expenditure covered the losses incurred by decentralised homes. The price of accommodation in these homes is below the market price, which results in demand that surpasses the supply by far. Apart from the price, the accommodation criteria which are currently unclear and uneven should be reconsidered. It is of crucial importance that those who do not have another solution get accommodation in state-owned homes, to reduce the waiting lists, and that the state participates in the payment of the price only for the most financially disadvantaged. The priority in financing homes should be an adjustment of revenue and expenditure on the annual level, in order to make the system long-term fiscally sustainable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the paper is to present the results of the research of availability and characteristics of digital collections in public libraries in Croatia. The purpose of the paper is to motivate library professionals to create common criteria for digital collection development with the aim to facilitate access to digital material for users and to motivate general public to use the existing digital collections by pointing out at their quality. The paper consists of two parts. The first part defines public libraries, digital collections, digital libraries, and digitization as fundamental terms of this paper and serves as an introduction into the second part of the paper. The second part of the paper presents the results of the research, i.e. the analysis and comparison of all available digital collections in public libraries in Croatia. Methods used in the second part of the paper are content analysis and comparison of characteristics of digital collections against a set of criteria prepared in advance during the analysis of digital collections across the world in the preparatory phase of the research. The results of the research could be used in further development of user interfaces of future digital collections which is one of the current hot research topics and a permanent orientation of libraries across the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research on the history and culture of Roma in Croatia has always been a marginal topic in Croatian science, especially in historiography. Having this in mind, it is no wonder we can observe only sporadic fragments of the research activities in Romani studies of some Croatian scientists, who only occasionally covered the aforementioned topic. The end of the 19th century saw the growing interest in the research on Roma - it is then that the important results of research on Roma culture, language and customs were published. Emilij Laszowski was also among these scientists. He was one of the most prominent Croatian historiographers at the end of the 19th century and in the first half of the 20th century. Our research was based on the analysis of the part of his personal archival fonds - which is kept in the Croatian State Archives - related to the history of Roma. Laszowski's historiographic work encompassed numerous fields of social history; he rose to prominence mostly due to his papers on Croatian early modern cultural and economic history and historical topography. It is, though, less known fact that Laszowski researched the history and culture of the Roma population in Croatia and in Europe. The impulse for studying the Roma population came from Mara Čop Marlet, the first Croatian ethnographer, who was part of the wider European circle of scientists exploring the ethnography of the Romani population. In the last decade of the 19th century Laszowski started collecting and analyzing the relevant literature and documents pertaining to Roma in Croatian archives. He had published the results of a part of his researches in an article in the newspaper Narodne novine in 1894 - this article may be regarded as the first Croatian historiographical work on the topic of Roma. Laszowski continued researching the history of Roma after publishing the 1894 article, including the history of Roma during the Second World War, but the aforementioned article remained his only published paper on the subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper compares the administrative-territorial organisation of Croatia with the organisation in other European countries, with an emphasis on geographical aspects - primarily size (territory) and number of inhabitants of administrative units. The introduction provides an analytical review of the recent papers on this topic, and then an analysis of the current territorial division of Croatia and its former division into regions (groups of municipalities) and so-called “large” municipalities. This is followed by an overview of territorial organisation in other European countries, which is compared with Croatia, with focus on the need to emphasise the relationship between territorial organisation and the size of a particular state. The final part of the paper contains proposals for the administrative division of Croatian territory based on the spatial distribution of the population and the main urban centres, using the application of the best practices in Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lagging behind in economic and demographic development has been one of the fundamental features of Croatian peripheral karst areas for a long time. For that reason, the main research goal of this paper was to analyse attitudes of students from the University of Zagreb regarding the revitalisation potential for Croatian peripheral karst areas. A questionnaire survey was conducted using quota sampling, whereby 490 students were included. The willingness of respondents to return or move to peripheral karst areas was examined, as well as the association between the respondents' stated willingness and connection to these areas by place of birth or origin. Furthermore, economic activities that respondents saw as crucial to the revitalisation processes of karst problem areas were identified. Respondents' views on the possible future development of peripheral karst areas were also analysed. The results point to multi-faceted views of the area. A low level of willingness to return or move to peripheral karst areas on the part of the respondents was determined, whereby respondents, who were linked with peripheral karst areas by birthplace or origin, considered moving or returning to these areas significantly more. Rural tourism and organic agriculture were seen as the most important economic activities in the process of revitalisation. Regional self-government units and central state government were defined by respondents as most important actors in the process of revitalisation. Finally, respondents' predictions about the future of peripheral karst areas were predominantly negative. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyses the spatial concentration of economic activities/sectors in the Republic of Croatia in the period from 2009 to 2016. For this purpose, absolute, and relative spatial concentrations-Hirfindahl- Hirschman's index and variants of the Gini coefficient of concentration (Gini coefficient, spatial Gini coefficient and Gini location coefficient)-were applied. As a basis for their calculation, data on the number of employees per county are used. The results show that the most spatially-concentrated activities are those of the tertiary sector, in particular activities related to information and communication. Some activities are highly concentrated in the City of Zagreb, while others are highly concentrated in certain coastal counties. Agriculture, forestry, and fishing have the most even spatial arrangement. Most of the researched activities did not show a significant change in degree of spatial concentration between 2009 and 2016. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses a potential contribution of social innovations to strengthening social cohesion and mitigating the effects of the crisis. In EUfunding policies and programs, social innovations are recognized as an important contribution to strengthening of social cohesion, which has weakened due to the crisis and increasing social vulnerability. At the same time, it is shown that social innovations in the Croatian context are still a concept poorly understood by policy creators, experts, and the general public. The findings and conclusions of the paper are based on the empirical research conducted within the international FP7 project WILCO - Welfare Innovations at Local Levels in Favour of Cohesion, which studied the selected towns (in Croatia Zagreb and Varaždin) and characteristics of their social systems, and which analyzed identified examples of social innovations. Local social systems of cities included in the research reflected the characteristics of national welfare regimes only partially, and the openness and support of local authorities is crucial for the development and sustainability of social innovations. Most of the studied innovations were in the field of services, although innovations were also recognized in innovative instruments of regulation and social rights, the new forms of governance and new modes of work and funding of organizations, and they can have an impact on the gradual changes of the local social systems. In the Croatian context, three types of social innovations can be distinguished: (1) innovations occurring in the public sector, with the support of experts from outside the industry, (2) innovations that come from abroad, as a result of foreign financial programs, and (3) innovations coming from civil society, based on the self-organization of citizens. While in the examples of some Western European cities the public sector with its professional capacity is recognized as an important producer of social innovations, in Croatia, past experiences and the research conducted within the project suggest that most social innovations come from civil society, where the level of cultural and social capital is an important prerequisite for the development and success of innovations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Purpose: The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of recent research about the concept of embedded librarianship and to provide deeper insights into the actual level of library services' embeddedness in Croatian libraries. The introduction brings into light certain trends of modern librarianship, especially in the context of postmodernism, that can be observed in relation to the concept of embedded librarianship. The theoretical review provides recent findings in the field of embedded librarianship and how the concept is developed by Shumaker and Tally, Kvenild and others. A content analysis of papers published in Vjesnik bibliotekara Hrvatske aims to determine the level of integration of embedded library services in Croatian libraries and to explore the features and scope of application of embedded librarianship. The article systematizes perceived strengths and limitations of development and application of embedded library services. Methodology/Approach: A theoretical overview of recent research and findings in the field of embedded librarianship is given. Content analysis of papers published in Vjesnik bibliotekara Hrvatske in the period from 2003 to 2014 has been made with the aim to update and expand the knowledge of this new concept among the national library community. Results: Systematized findings and results of the content analysis show that the model of embedded librarianship is relatively little known in Croatian libraries, although the features of this concept are implemented in all types of libraries: school, public, academic and special. The expert community is aware and reflects upon individual features of the concept of embedded librarianship, although the development of these features is neither recognized nor assessed within the general, unifying concept of embedded librarianship. Research limitation: Research limitations were mostly related to the relatively low rate of implementation of embedded librarianship in Croatia. Originality/Practical implications: The originality of the paper comes from the fact that the concept of embedding was for the first time researched through the Croatian library sector. The research results can be of use to those who are planning to develop modern library services or want to improve or become aware of the advantages and difficulties in developing the existing embedded library services. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper gives an overview of todays fisheries in Croatia and its role in management along the coast. First part of the paper provides an overview of the current world fisheries. The second part deals with Croatian fisheries, legal framework related to it and changes that happened after Croatia joined the European Union. As a member of the European Union Croatia was given a chance to explore new possibilities of developement and to find its place on the European fishing market but certain changes proved to be a threat for traditional fishing. Changes are necessary and inevitable but many are raising a question which changes should be accepted and which should be adjusted to local needs. The question of small scale fishing is a good example on which different interests encounter. European Union advises the implementation of Integrated coastal zone management which promotes integrated activity on all levels as well as coordination in ecological, economical and social needs. It represents a key factor in regeneration of economic activities on the Croatian coastal area. Croatia has been adjusting its fishing policy to the European and Mediterranean standard for a number of years. With the right guidance and financial support Croatia has a change to reflate its coastal areas. On Croatia as a case study, the paper explores the introduction of presented challenges and the future of its implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nautical tourism has a very important role in the development of economic activities of a particular country and is considered an important factor for the development of tourism in general. This is a distinctive form of tourism, distinguishable from other forms of tourism by its many special features, in particular by the maritime domain management model. The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of nautical tourism for the Croatian economy, which is reflected in the financial and other results this type of tourism has been accomplishing. In this paper, the authors analyzed the current state of nautical tourism in Croatia and pointed out the advantages and possible consequences of the construction of new marinas in Croatia. In order to determine the advantages and disadvantages of nautical tourism in Croatia in relation to the environment and the possibilities for further development, the Tomas Nautical Yachting 2012 research is presented. The contribution of this work is primarily reflected in the analysis of previous research works and in the adoption of possible measures for further development of nautical tourism in Croatia. The special aim of the paper is shown in the SWOT analysis and in the presentation of outcomes using a SWOT matrix. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Žiga Hirschler was a Croatian composer and music critic who worked between the Two World Wars in Zagreb, Croatia. As a composer he was a minor representative of nationalism in music and as a music critic he was a prominent representative of ideological-utilitarian music criticism. His reviews, essays and interviews were published in all the prominent newspapers and magazines in Zagreb and helped shape and document the town music culture in the 1920s and 1930s. This paper includes Hirschler's biography, an overview of music criticism in Zagreb between the Two World Wars, as well as detailed analyses of his criticism and his confrontation with Marxist music criticism representatives, Pavao Markovac and Zlatko Grgošević. This paper is the shorter version of my undergraduate thesis in Musicology at the Academy of Music of Zagreb University. It is also the first comprehensive overview of Hirschler's work in the field of music criticism ever to be published. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Starting from Bourdieu's theory of cultural and social reproduction, the paper seeks to examine the relationship between socioeconomic background, cultural capital and academic achievement in three national educational systems: Croatian, German and Danish. The analyses are based on PISA 2009 survey data (N(C)=4 994; N(G)=4 979; N(D)=5 924). Regression analyses were performed in order to examine the effects of students' socioeconomic background on their scientific literacy, the mediation of this relationship by cultural capital, and the effects of cultural capital for students of lower or higher socioeconomic status. The results indicate a positive correlation between students' socioeconomic status and scientific literacy in all three countries, with the correlation strength in German students' sample being the highest. Cultural capital of students in all three countries mediates the effect of family's socioeconomic status on scientific literacy, although the mediator effects vary significantly between the Croatian, German and Danish students. Interaction effects of socioeconomic status and cultural capital are present in the German and Danish students' samples, in which educational exclusion occurs primarily through embodied cultural dispositions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents the role of Eugen Viktor Feller, a pharmacist and factory owner, with an emphasis on his marketing strategy in advertising his pharmacy specialty Elsa. Various types of contemporary press and advertising leaflets and packaging were used as a starting point for analysis. The abundance of the collected material provided an insight into Feller's communication strategy of the approach to consumers, comparing advertising in different media and time spans. Following the appearance and elaboration of visual communication phenomena as part of family interest, approaches and advances in the development of advertising in the projects of Feller's sons Miroslav and Ferdinand were presented. Upgrading to the father's positive marketing experience they begin a more contemplative advertising campaign. Ferdinand Feller introduces the concept of collective pharmaceutical propaganda into pharmaceutical marketing, while Miroslav Feller becomes one of the leaders in the development of institutionalization and professionalization of commercial graphic design. Thus, marketing development was demonstrated through marketing approaches and innovative ideas of the three members of Feller family, illustrating the shift in approaches that marked the beginning of a different management within an industrial society, where advertising became an indispensable part and a promoter of market relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper closely examines territorial cohesion and rural development policy of the European Union, regional differences in the level of development of the cooperative system, and its spatially differentiated influence on the social and economic development of Croatia. The results confirmed the importance of the cooperative system as a factor of territorial cohesion, and the high level of positive correlation between lagging behind in regional and rural development, and the level of development of the cooperative system. The cooperative system has the greatest influence on regional development in Southern Croatia/Dalmatia (especially on social development) and in Eastern Croatia (especially on economic development). It has the highest impact on rural development in counties with the largest share of local self-government units (administrative towns and municipalities) with a development indeks below 75% of the national average - primarily in Vukovar-Srijem and Osijek-Baranja Counties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to investigate and present concepts of the author and his/her copyright work in copyright legislation that entered into force in Croatia from 1846 to 2007. 17 legal documents (acts, corrigenda, amendments) were investigated using the content analysis method. The analysis of the results gives an insight into various cultural and sociological dimensions of authorship in the given time-frame. Special attention was paid to definitions of the author and his/her copyright work, examples of copyright works and exceptions related to the duration of copyright for different kinds of copyright works. As there had been no systematic overview of such legal documents in the available literature, they were briefly described in the first part of the paper, highlighting the important articles that stress the role of authors and their copyright work. In the analysis and summary we provide a systematic overview of the main concepts, with a special review of copyright laws in relation to new technologies and artistic forms: it is their relationship that testifies to the complexity of the term 'copyright work'. The paper shows that the basic perception of the author, his/her copyright works and their relations in the analysed copyright legislation has not changed significantly during this period of time. All legal documents refer to the examples of copyright work, and in 1957 a definition of copyright work was included, according to which copyright work is every spiritual (later referred to as intellectual) creation. The concept of the author is strongly linked with the concept of author's copyright work. Various examples of copyright works allow us to see the difference between works that are permanent (e.g. literary works, music works, art works) and works that are yet to be protected by copyright thanks to the development of technology and new features of artistic expression (e.g. photography, movies, computer programs). The process of getting copyright is reflected in articles that regulate the duration of copyright. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Secondary sources of information are unavoidable in evaluation of scientific paper or in the title advancement. Journal indexation in citation databases is crucial for scientists and for editors of journals indexed in significant databases to achieve finacial support of Ministry of science, education and sport. Aim and purpose of paper is showing indexation of Croatian scientific and professional journals in citated databases Web of Science and Scopus. Method of the paper is bibliometric analysis, respectively data comparison concerning number of journals in databases Web of Science and Scopus, their analysis due to scientific field, language indexation in some articles of the journals, year of indexation, impact factor, h-index of individual authors in best rated journals in JCR database and due to indexing of foreign authors in individual journals. According to bibliometric results, 62 Croatian scientific and professional journals, including 6 from biotechnological fields are indexed in three citation index of Web of Science. In papers of domestic journals from biotechnological field indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded dominates English language. The highest amount of processed units belongs to Croatian authors, while more than two third is signed by foreign authors. According to data of Journal Citation Reports, The Science Edition for 2011, in the group of biotechnological journals, Food Technology and Biotechnology has the highest impact factor (1,195). At the beginning of 2013, 120 Croatian scientific and professional journals from all fields and 32 from biotechnological fields were indexed in Scopus. Food Technology and Biotechnology ranks highest following SJR indicator (0,492), according to SC Imago Journal & Country Rank portal for 2011 that included 116 Croatian journals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Volunteering is the activity of people who freely give their time in order to bring new contents and values into the lives of others, without expecting any financial gain in return, i.e. without being paid. The question arises what motivates individuals to being, but also persevere in volunteer work, and particularly what determines the motivation of young persons to decide on voluntary unpaid work. Namely, as volunteering is one of the key determinants of a developed civil society, young persons should be encouraged to volunteer work from the earliest age. Consequently the basic aim of the paper is to analyse the reasons to volunteer, particularly the reasons of young persons in the final years of their study programmes. Additionally, the paper researches the connection of selected personal characteristics of young persons (gender, personality and the area of study) with the primary reason to volunteer. On the sample of 255 students of the graduate study programmes at the University of Zagreb with its seven constituent parts (Faculty of Economics and Business, Faculty of Kinesiology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Social Work at the Faculty of Law, Faculty of Teacher Education) it has been established that the primary motivation to volunteer of the largest number of respondents is their own beliefs, and not any material gain, in other words they truly identify with the idea of volunteering (the motive of „worth“). The research has also shown that the incentives to participate in volunteer work depend on specific characteristics of an individual Specifically, the reasons to volunteer depend on the area of study/work of the individual (the third hypothesis on statistically significant different motivation for volunteering with regard to the area of study of the respondent is accepted), and to a lesser extent on the gender and personality traits of the individual (a large number of descriptive and some findings of the inferential statistics point to the differences in motives to volunteer with regard to gender and personality traits, but the first and the second hypotheses relevant to these relations have been rejected). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Paper presents the results of the pilot study of information needs and information behaviour of deafblind persons in eastern Croatia. The goal of the study was to identify information needs of deafblind persons in everday life, and find out how persons with such sensory impairements satisfy these needs. Special emphasis was put on their use of public libraries. The data were collected during November and December 2010 and January 2011 in structured interviews with nine respondents. The results confirmed that the respondents have diverse information needs and that they encounter numerous barriers when seeking information. The results have also shown that, as a rule, respondents cannot satisfy their information needs in local (public) libraries. Since there have not been similar studies in Croatia before, the paper can serve as theoretical and methodological initiative for future studies of this kind, and also encourage public libraries to start thinking about inclusion of deafblind persons into their (potential) user population, and help them by providing library services and building collections for persons with such sensory impairements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Secondary sources of information are indispensable in evaluation of scientific papers or in academic advancement and appointment procedures. Journal indexation in citation databases is crucial for scholars and editors of the journals when they apply for financial support of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports. The aim and purpose of paper is to present an overview of indexation of Croatian scientific and professional journals in citation databases Web of Science and Scopus, with special reference to humanities and social sciences. The method used is bibliometric analysis, giving a comparison of the number of journals in databases Web of Science and Scopus, their analysis with regard to scientific field, language indexation in the articles, year of indexation, impact factor, h-index of individual authors in best rated journals in JCR database, and indexing of foreign authors in particular journals. The bibliometric results have shown that at the beginning of 2013, 62 Croatian scientific and professional journals, including 28 from humanities and social science have been indexed in three citation indexes of Web of Science. English language is dominant in the domestic social fields journals indexed in Social Sciences Citation Index in 2012. About half of the processedpapersbelong to Croatian authors, while other half are written by foreign authors. According to data of Journal Citation Reports, The Social Sciences Edition for 2011, of all Croatian journals, Collegium Antropologicum has the highest impact factor (0,614). At the beginning of 2013, 120 Croatian scientific and professional journals from all fields and 47 from social and humanities sciences were indexed in Scopus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]