Online Access Usage Among Croatian Students and Professors with the Purpose of Archive

The contemporary modes of communication open up new possibilities of promoting archive material and observing the renewed role of the archive. In this sense, the question is, what kind and amount of information the archive community forms and realizes through the transformation of historical development of archive as a institutional cultural area (Pavelin & Pletikosić, 2013) The aim of this research was to determine the habits of online access usage among Croatian students and professors with the purpose of searching the archive sources, and to analyze the differences in the proportions between the defined subsamples. The sample of examinees was represented by 129 students and professors of the European and Croatian university city of Zadar, of which 97 were male (48.84%) and 82 female (51.16%). The examinees were public representatives who use the archive material with the purpose of education and information. The research was conducted during year 2012 via anonymous questionnaire. The proportion difference analysis determined significant difference between the Croatian students and professors, with the purpose of using the online access to archive sources