We are pleased to announce the successful completion of the digitization of the journal Fizika (1968–1991). For the first time, this valuable part of the history of Croatian physics is now fully accessible online.

The project was initiated and carried out by Prof. Gordana Stubičan Ladešić, Head Librarian of the Library of the Department of Physics at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. The goal was to bring the journal Fizika out of the library archives and make it available to the wider scientific and educational community. Over the past two years, she carried out the digitization process and the entry of scientific articles, successfully completing this extensive and demanding project.

In total, 92 volumes and 32 supplements were digitized, comprising 14,260 pages. From 23 volumes, 826 PDFs of scientific articles and letters to the editor were extracted, while 1,525 PDFs of conference abstracts were extracted from the supplements. All scanned pages were processed using OCR technology, enabling full-text search across the entire collection.

In 2025, Dijana Sever joined the project and took on a significant part of the work related to entering the supplements, which contain a large number of abstracts from scientific conferences.

The journal has now been included in Hrčak – the Portal of Croatian Scientific and Professional Journals, providing open access to its content, improving its visibility, and facilitating citation. Detailed metadata have been entered for each article, including authors and affiliations, titles and abstracts in Croatian and English, and page ranges. Each record also includes a permanent URL, ensuring long-term preservation and accessibility.

The journals Fizika A (Physics A) i and Fizika B (Physics B) have also been included in the Hrčak portal. As these journals were already available in PDF format, digitization was not required; however, the same process of inclusion in Hrčak and the entry of articles and associated metadata was carried out.

The journal Fizika is available at https://hrcak.srce.hr/fizika.