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1、Submittedon:8/16/2014NewspapersasaResearchSource:InformationNeedsandInformationSeekingofHumanitiesScholarsSanjicaFaletarTanackovićDepartmentofInformationSciences,FacultyofHumanitiesandSocialSciences,UniversityofOsijek,Croatia.sfaletar@ffos.hrMajaKrtalićDepartm
2、entofInformationSciences,FacultyofHumanitiesandSocialSciences,UniversityofOsijek,Croatia.mkrtalic@ffos.hrDarkoLacovićDepartmentofInformationSciences,FacultyofHumanitiesandSocialSciences,UniversityofOsijek,Croatia.dlacovic@ffos.hrCopyright©2014bySanjicaFaletarT
3、anacković,MajaKrtalićandDarkoLacović.ThisworkismadeavailableunderthetermsoftheCreativeCommonsAttribution3.0UnportedLicense:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Abstract:Thispaperfocusesonnewspapersasascientificresearchsourceinthehumanities.Thepurposeofth
4、ispaperistopresentaportionoftheresultsobtainedinthenationwidestudywhichexploredhowCroatianhumanitiesacademicsandscholarsperceiveanduse(historicalandcurrent)newspapers.Thestudypresentedinthispaperfocusedontwogroupsofresearchers,historiansandlinguists,andaimedto
5、answerthefollowingresearchquestions:‘Whatkindsofinformationdo(Croatian)historiansandlinguistslookforinnewspapers?’,‘Whatdifficultiesdoresearchersencounterwhenusingnewspapers?’and‘Whatwouldenhancenewspaperuseintheirfurtherresearch?’.AsurveywasconductedinDecembe
6、r2013throughanonlinequestionnaire,andtheinitialresultsshowthatalmosthalfoftherespondentsusenewspapers(printoronline)asaprimaryresearchsourceandthatthemajorityofrespondentsstillprefertoconsultprintnewspapersoverelectronicforavarietyofreasons.Interestingly,altho
7、ughthemajorityofrespondentsfindandconsultthenewspapersinlocal(Croatian)libraries,archivesandmuseums,asignificantportionoftherespondents(20,4%)visitforeignculturalheritageinstitutionstoaccessthenewspapermaterialtheyneed.1SouthChinaNormalUniversity(202.116.41.69
8、)-2016/1/26DownloadThepapercriticallyanalysestheinformationneedsandbehaviourofaspecificnewspaperusergroupwhichhasnotyetbeenstudiedinCroatiaandprovidesdatawhichcancontributetothedev