For more than two decades, new information systems have been developed in Slovenia to support historical research, and when building them, it is necessary, among other things, to think about the user, i.e. the historian. In this research, we set two research questions, i.e. what kind of inquiry methods are used in historical research and how users evaluate the experience of using the History of Slovenia – SIstory portal. The first question was answered by a review of the literature, which showed that, while historians' search methods, strategies and information behaviour are very diverse, there are certain patterns. The latter has been found in a number of foreign studies, which have been in progress for more than thirty years, but there is no detailed research on this topic in Slovenia yet. The second question was answered by a short online questionnaire, which was answered by 30 users of the portal. The majority of the respondents were Slovenian historians and history students, and based on their answers we concluded that the SIstory portal fulfils its main tasks with room for minor improvements.
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