General outline

The name of the course is thePostgraduate Doctoral Degree Course in Information Sciences. The course belongs to the field of social sciences, the area of information sciences and its basic branches are information systems and informatology, library science, archival and documentation science, museum science, lexicography and encyclopaedistics. In terms of its interdisciplinary approach the course is related also to human sciences and the field of philology, to technical sciences and the field of computer science as well as to natural sciences and the field of mathematics.

The institution that conducts the programme is The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Department of Information Sciences, in collaboration with archive, library, museum and lexicographic institutions whose staff members jointly participate in the realization of the programme of this course.

The institutional strategy of the development of doctoral degree courses is based on further development of interdisciplinarity both within the field of information sciences and its branches and other scientific fields and areas. The programme of this course is structured in such a way as to give a balanced approach between scientific research and multidisciplinary cooperation.

The innovativeness of the course lies in its interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach as well as in its close cooperation with various information institutions.