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Native name | Hrčak – Portal hrvatskih znanstvenih i stručnih časopisa |
|---|---|
Type of site | Open access academic journal portal |
| Available in | Croatian, English |
| Country of origin | Croatia |
| Owner | University Computing Centre (SRCE), University of Zagreb |
| URL | hrcak |
| Launched | February 7, 2006 |
Content license | Open access (free) |
Hrčak (Croatian for "hamster") is Croatia's national open access portal for scientific and professional journals. The University Computing Centre (SRCE) of the University of Zagreb built and runs it, alongside the Croatian Information and Documentation Society (HID). It went live on 7 February 2006, backed by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports, and has since become the main door to Croatian open-access academic publishing.[1]
History
editBefore Hrčak, most Croatian scientific journals existed only in print. Their audience rarely reached beyond local institutions, and Croatian research stayed off the radar of the wider academic world. A team from SRCE and HID started working on a fix in 2004. The idea was simple: give publishers a tool to put their journals online, for free, so anyone could read them.[1] Two years later, on 7 February 2006, the portal opened.[2]
Journals signed up fast. Within three years, 170 had joined.[1] By May 2013, the number stood at 333, covering nearly 92,000 full-text articles across the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and biomedicine.[3]
Hrčak also struck deals with major international database providers — Elsevier, Thomson Reuters, and EBSCO — to get Croatian journals indexed abroad.[1] Google Scholar and the Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) pull its metadata automatically through the OAI-PMH protocol.[1]
Platform model
editPublishers pay nothing to join. Readers pay nothing to read. SRCE runs the servers, writes the software, and handles the technical side, while journal editors use the platform's built-in tools to upload and manage their content.[1] A small publication with no IT budget can still keep a professional presence online. That is the point.
Researchers studying Croatian open-access publishing have also used Hrčak's database as their primary source. Work built on its data covers topics like how open access has spread through different disciplines, whether Croatian journals charge article processing fees, and how transparent their editorial policies are.[4][5]
See also
editReferences
edit- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Stojanovski, Jadranka; Petrak, Jelka; Macan, Bojan (October 2009). "The Croatian national open access journal platform". Learned Publishing. 22 (4). Wiley: 263–273. doi:10.1087/20090402.
- ↑ "Did you know that Hrčak is celebrating 20 years since its launch?". Hrčak. 2026. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
- ↑ Živković, Daniela (Fall 2013). "Open Access in Croatia: CROSBI and the Hrčak Portal of Scientific Journals". Association of College and Research Libraries, European Studies Section. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
- ↑ Macan, Bojan; Petrak, Jelka (2020). "David among Goliaths: Open access publishing in scientific (semi-)periphery". Learned Publishing. 33 (4). Wiley: 410–417. doi:10.1002/leap.1320.
- ↑ "Does small equal predatory? Analysis of publication charges and transparency of editorial policies in Croatian open access journals". Learned Publishing. 2017. doi:10.1002/leap.1116.