Online academic databases use in Croatian higher education

The development of information and communication technologies has facilitated access to a range of scientific and professional content for academic community. Resulting from this process, online academic databases over the last decade have become an indispensable source of recent and relevant information in all areas of human activity. The paper presents the results of the research that endeavored to establish how far Croatian university teachers rely on such databases, and the way they perceive certain aspects of their usage. The research was conducted on a sample consisting of respondents employed at the Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek. The analysis of the data collected in the survey indicates that the respondents highly value online academic database usefulness; however, there are certain constraints in their usage.