Professional paper
Structure of theses users in the repository of the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb
Gordana Stubičan Ladešić
; Central Physics Library of University of Zagreb Faculty of Science
Iva Vrkić
orcid.org/0000-0002-3221-5204
; Central Geophysics Library of University of Zagreb Faculty of Science
Petra Gašparac
; Central Library of University of Zagreb Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry
Abstract
Academic libraries use institutional repositories to store and provide open access to content created at their institutions. Students' theses are represented in a large percentage among other types of documents in repositories. Analysis of user requests for inaccessible theses stored in the Repository of the Faculty of Science University of Zagreb provided insight into the structure and information needs and motivations of repository users, which we do not have the opportunity to examine in open access documents. All requests received from March 2018, when the above mentioned functionality was established over the Repository of the Faculty of Science, until the end of 2021, were analyzed. The aim of the research was to get to know the structure of users and their interests, as well as to demonstrate the importance of storing documents in open access. The results of research showed that the interest in student theses is great and that their potential readership is much wider than narrow academic circle (faculty's students, teachers and researchers).
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Publication date:
20.10.2022.
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