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93 Academic databases in humanities and social sciences setting: the case of students at University of Osijek Podatkovne zbirke s področja humanistike in družboslovja: primer študentov univerze v Osijeku Sanjica Faletar Tanacković Oddano: 15. 12. 2017 – Sprejeto: 13. 3. 2018 1.02 Pregledni znanstveni članek 1.02 Review article UDK 004.65:[3+7/9] Abstract Purpose: The study investigated perceptions and experiences of students at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek, Croatia with academic databases. Methodology: The mixed-method study (self-administered print survey and semi-struc- tured interviews) was conducted from October 2016 through February 2017. Quantita- tive analysis was conducted on 381 correctly completed questionnaires using the SPSS statistical package. Besides descriptive statistics, Chi-Square tests, T-tests, ANOVA, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal Wallis tests were used to test possible differences between the groups in the sample. Statistical difference was tested at the level of 95%. Results: Although 82.2% of respondents think that information literacy (IL) skills are important for their academic success, only 63% reported that they received some for- mal IL training at university level. The respondents self-assessed their Google search- ing skills with higher grades (Mean 4.31) than their academic database searching skills (Mean 3.69), and they reported a more frequent use of Google (53.8%) than databas- es (25.1%) for academic purposes. When asked about problems related to database searching, students reported several challenges: their systematic habit of using Google (48%), limited access to databases from home (42.3%), the (foreign) language of schol- arly articles (35.2%) and their lack of searching skills (35.2%). In general, the findings suggest that humanities students receive less IL formal training at university level, they are to a lesser degree motivated (both externally and internally) to use academic databases and are more often inclined to use Google for academic purposes than social