Преглед НЦД 22 (2013), 132–139

Renata Petrušić, Jasenka Zajec

National and University Library in Zagreb, Croatia

CROATIAN DIGITISATION PROJECTS OF

NEWSPAPERS AND JOURNALS – AN OVERVIEW

Abstract: Historic newspapers and journals are extremely valuable resources for the study of national and local culture, science, history and politics; consequently, they are often used by researches and other users. The paper aims to present digitisation projects of newspapers and journals in the Republic of Croatia. Digitisation projects are analysed according to several elements: digitising institution, reasons and aims of digitisation, project duration, realisation ratio, selection criteria, copyright issues, availability, metadata, search options and financing. Finally, the advantages of the Portal of digitised Croatian historic newspapers and journals, its benefits and advantages for cooperating institutions are presented.

Keywords: historic newspapers, historic journals, digitisation projects, cooperative portal