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Purpose. The aim of the study was to determine how familiar the students of the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek are with the concept of plagiarism, the extent to which they use Internet sources inappropriately, and how many of them got caught for this form of cheating. Approach/methodology/design. The research was conducted through an online survey. For this purpose, a structured questionnaire that consisted of several sections was used. In accordance with the aim, four hypotheses were tested and discussed. The descriptive statistics was applied in the analysis of the basic features of the collected data, while the inferential statistics included the Wilcoxon signed-rank test and a onetailed proportion test. Findings. The conclusions were drawn from the responses of 504 university students. The results of the study have shown that students generally feel that they are well acquainted with the concept of plagiarism and that they know how to correctly cite internet sources. Furthermore, the study found that the students are mostly familiar with the basic rules of referencing internet sources, but not with all of them. The analysis revealed that students plagiarised in their papers, such as mid-term and final papers, essays, reviews, project assignments, etc. The results have shown that about 80% of students had engaged in some form of plagiarism at least once. Out of all the respondents, 40,1% admitted to having copied someone else's entire paper from the Internet; 46,2% to having copied large parts of someone else's paper; 62,1% to having copied some parts of someone else's paper; and 78,4% to having paraphrased without acknowledging the source. Of those who had done so only slightly more than 5% were caught plagiarising. Limitations. The survey included students from only one university. However, since Croatian students have much in common, it can be assumed that the findings of this research can be largely generalised to a wider population. This has been confirmed by the studies conducted at other Croatian universities, too. Practical implications. The study contributes to a better understanding of the phenomenon of student plagiarism in the context of Croatian higher education and provides some guidelines for the prevention of such unethical behaviour. Originality/value. The paper deals with the aspects of plagiarism that have not yet been sufficiently explored among the population of Croatian students. Consequently, the paper provides new insights into plagiarism in the digital age related to the knowledge and behaviours of university students. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Goal. The paper is based on a research of cultural differences in modern multicultural society. The goal of the research was to investigate public libraries' role and potential in promotion of intercultural values in the Croatian plural society. Methodology. The part of the research presented in this paper was conducted by a survey. The total of 177 responses were obtained through the online survey from the librarians with bachelor's or master's degrees employed in Croatian public libraries. The results were analyzed using the descriptive and inferential statistics method. The main research question was: What are the public libraries' potentials for promoting intercultural values, with the research hypothesis that the existing potentials are not sufficiently used. Results. The research results show the awareness and sensitivity of the librarian community to the cultural needs of the Croatian citizens. It is also evident that libraries are places for realisation of these needs. Public libraries recognise their role as an important stakeholder in multicultural society and see the promotion of multicultural and intercultural values as one of the key roles of public librarianship. Nevertheless, the results show that these potentials are far from being fully exploited. Originality. The previous researches in Croatia have perceived the public libraries' role in context of multiculturalism mostly as places that provide minority collections and organize activities for the minorities. In addition, these researches have not differentiated between multicultural and intercultural services and activities. Therefore, the significant contribution of this paper lies in setting the scope for the critical evaluation of the theoretical and methodological approaches for future research on intercultural topics in Croatian librarianship. [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]