Dr. Vatovec was the first Slovene historian who systematically dealt with the history of Slovene journals and periodicals. He published about 200 works related to this field of work. His principal life-work to be the monographic »Slovenski časnik« (The Slovene Newspaper), however, out of an edition comprising three volumes he only published the first part (in 1961). Dr. Vatovec spent a large part of his life as a proffessional journalist and during the final decade of his life he was a university lecturer. He devoted the initial years of his research period to the Medieval history of colonization.
The bibliography of his works is attached to the article (pp. 326—332).