Web References in Graduate Papers at the Department of Information Sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb

Bauer, Anina and Kirin, Marija and Turković, Marija. (2011). Web References in Graduate Papers at the Department of Information Sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. In: 3rd International Conference "The Future of Information Sciences: INFuture2011 – Information Sciences and e-Society", 9-11 November 2011, Zagreb.

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Abstract

The aim of this article is to give insight into how graduate students at the Department of Information Sciences at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb tend to collect their references online. The research is based on the hypothesis, which was drawn up regarding the continuous spread of the Internet use, that the usage of web references in graduate papers has substantially grown in the period from 2004 to 2010. The period in question was chosen according to the availability of digitalised graduate papers in the Digital Repository of the Faculty Library. For this purpose a bibliometric method was used on the sample of over 360 graduate papers in the given period which include graduate papers from Archive Documentation, Library Science, General Information Science and Museology. A detailed analysis of the web references cited in the theses, together with the total number of references, is presented in this article. The analysis includes distinction based on authors and type of online references. One of the aims of the analysis was to investigate which author is most frequently cited even though web references are not always signed by an author. The different types of online references that are used, such as online books, articles, reference materials and others, were taken into consideration as well. The analysis of the collected data proved the hypothesis that the number of web references increased over the period; however, there is still a great deal of offline based references used in the graduate papers.

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