Inclusion of the nationally oriented journals into the journal elite of international significance or what can scientific outskirts offer to the metropolis?

摘要

Vjesnik bibliotekara Hrvatske has been published since 1950 by the Croatian Library Association, bringing information on the newest achievements in librarianship in Croatia and worldwide. Due to the fact that it publishes only reviewed and categorizedarticles, the journal has been affirmed as the only relevant scientific and professional journal in the area of Croatian librarianship. It is referred in three databases: Library and Information Science Abstracts, Information Science Abstracts and Sciences de l'Information, Documentation. Thus, the published articles are important elements for evaluation of Croatian librarians' scientific and professional contributions, as well as for acquiring professional and scientific titles. Besides that, specialissues edited by eminent professionals in a certain area, serve as mandatory exam literature for graduate and postgraduate students of the Department of Information Science, Faculty of Philosophy Zagreb, and of the Department of Librarianship, Faculty ofPhilosophy Osijek. Since March 9, 2004 Vjesnik bibliotekara Hrvatske has started publishing its parallel electronic edition free of charge (http://www.hkdrustvo.hr/vbh), thus giving its articles more visibility and making them more available to potential readers.