Bosniaca magazine included in the DOAJ database
The National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina is pleased to announce that the Bosnian library journal Bosniaca has been accepted for indexing into the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) database.
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Bosniaca is already indexed in Crossref, EBSCO Central & Eastern European Academic Source and The Belt and Road Initiative Reference Source (EBSCO), ROAD (Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources), Index Copernicus, Erih plus (the European Reference Index for the Humanities ), ICI Journals Master List, KoBSON (Consortium of Serbian Libraries for Unified Procurement) and available in CEEOL databases (Central and Eastern European Online Library), Hrčak - Portal of Croatian scientific and professional journals and Slavic Humanities Index.
In addition to the printed edition of Bosniace, an online version is also available, which belongs to open access magazines. The online version of the magazine is available at http://bosniaca.nub.ba/index.php/bosniaca.
This is a significant step in the further development of the journal and a great recognition to the editorial board in its work so far.
