摘要：Internet and the World Wide Web in the late 1990s in the US, enabled changes in the design and systematization of electronic journals as an information source, but also in the process of publishing scientific information. Consequently, scientific communication has changed, and the information transfer time which should not affect its quality, has become of vital importance to the entire scientific community. Open access initiatives encourage free access to scientific papers with the purpose of faster and cheaper publication of knowledge. Also, they protect copyright and ethical principles of scientific publication.Croatia has defined the policy of open access to papers funded by the state in the document "Science and Technology Policy of the Republic of Croatia 2006 – 2010“, according to which the results of research and development should be freely available to the public.The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the Croatian scientific journals from the field of educational sciences available through open access on the Portal of scientific journals of Croatia - HRČAK, and demonstrate how they can be found through EJOL database PERO search engine. Authors in this field, in Croatia and abroad, are encouraged to grasp open access initiatives and the many advantages of electronic journals which allow faster dissemination of scientific research results and the availability of knowledge in the field of educational sciences.
