Elektroničke baze podataka u društvenim i humanističkim znanostima
ELECTRONIC DATABASES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

Summary/Abstract: Due to their professional selectiveness and the standardized processing, commercial databases are a valuable source of scientific information. This paper describes the rationale behind their emergence and evolution in the sense of technological and content changes that the on-line databases have gone through in their forty-year existence. On today’s market there are hosts that offer a plethora of databases. In the Croatian academic community the access is provided via NSK and CARNet. The article lists the examples of surfing on major on-line databases available in the web form (EMERALD, CSA and EBSCO) as the relevant electronic sources of information from the field of social sciences/humanities.

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