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151 The impact of components of information literacy on student success in higher education 1 Vpliv komponent informacijske pismenosti na učni uspeh študentov v visokem šolstvu Zdenka Petermanec, Urban Šebjan Oddano: 13. 2. 2018 – Sprejeto: 19. 4. 2018 1.01 Izvirni znanstveni članek 1.01 Original scientific article UDK 025.4.03:378.091.33 Abstract Purpose: Student proficiency in information literacy (IL) is one of key competences for their independence, critical selection of information sources, implementation of new information, and the ethical use of information sources on their way to professional development. The study researched the influence of information literacy on student success in higher education. Methodology/approach: The study is based on a sample of 197 regular undergraduate students, and the results were analyzed by using the multiple regression analysis. Results: The results show that proficiency in searching for information sources posi- tively influences students’ success. Within the component Search, the influence of ef- fective search procedures and the ability to master bibliographic sources on students’ success were measured. Research limitation: The study was limited to four components of IL (Theoretical knowl- edge, Search, Evaluation and Use of information), and the sample included students of economic and business sciences. 1 With the experimental study of evaluation components of information literacy (Petermanec & Šebjan, 2017) we investigated and evaluated the key components for the program of IL. In the next step in this article we present how these key components could affect student study success.