Updates on the Philippine E-Journals

Volume 3, Issue 6 (November-December 2011)

Table of Contents

  • PEJ Wall: Updates on the Philippine E-Journals
  • CE-Learning SPOTLIGHT: Isang pagsilip sa diary ni Sinag…
  • The [Digital] Story of the Nativity: Reliving the First Christmas, Digitally
  • If you could have all the latest gadgets…

PEJ Wall: Updates on the Philippine E-Journals

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) encourages publishers and editors of CHED-accredited research journals to collaborate with the Philippine E-Journals (PEJ) in making the research works of Filipino scholars globally accessible.1

CHED Chair Dr. Patricia Licuanan issued a memorandum that highlights the benefits and range of free services the publishers would get from joining PEJ.

Meanwhile, the Philippine Association of Institutions for Research (PAIR) and PEJ recently signed a Memorandum of Agreement that will make way for concerted efforts to advance the quality of Filipino research publications, give recognition to researchers who actively conduct research and publish their works, train educators and researchers on the use of the PEJ platform, and “implement the celebration of 2012 as year of the Philippine E-Journals.”

PAIR has a membership of over 50 higher education institutions committed to upholding the quality of multidisciplinary research in the country. With PAIR President Dr. Genaro Japos in the lead, the organization “operates to provide member-institutions with mechanisms that strengthen research capability.”

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The year 2011 has been a good one for PEJ. With more than 2,600 articles published online to date, the PEJ collection continues to grow as more institutions and organizations participate in the online journal initiative of C&E Publishing, Inc. Keeping true to its mission to promote research publication in the Philippines, PEJ was given the Asian Research Journal Consortium Diamond Award during the Asian Conference on Academic Journals and Higher Education Research held on August 17-20 in Cagayan de Oro City.

PEJ Acquisitions Officer Mia Monica Santos also received several recognitions from research organizations: Asian Research Advocacy Award from PAIR; Award of Distinction – Training on International Accreditation of Academic Journals, International Association of Multi-Disciplinary Research (IAMURE); and International Quality Award, PAIR.

PEJ currently houses 68 journals of 51 different disciplines from 25 higher education institutions and professional organizations from Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. It has reached 97 countries worldwide and garnered more than 400,000 pages views this year.

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New feature!

Editorial Policies and Submission Guidelines of journals available on PEJ can now be easily downloaded from a single page! Just visit the Resources page of the site or click here.

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CONGRATULATIONS to the Digital Librarians of the Philippine E-Journals for passing the Librarian Licensure Examination!

Ms. Maria Judith Faye Gorospe (Top 5)

Ms. Esther Cariaga

Ms. Leanne Pearl Tingson

Cariaga and Tingson are currently serving as librarians for PEJ while Gorospe was part of the team until August this year. The examination was held in November 2011 where 211 out of 764 passed. For the complete list of passers, visit the Professional Regulation Commission’s website.


Footnotes:

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“Proud Member of the Philippine E-Journals”

Volume 3, Issue 5 (September-October 2011)

Table of Contents

  • PEJ Wall
  • CE-Learning SPOTLIGHT: The Math World E-Quizzes through the eyes of a grateful student
  • Collaborative Environments: Working with peers anytime, anywhere
  • Mobile Phones: Learning with multimedia, games, and apps
  • Head on to the CLOUD: Why cloud computing for education
  • Augmented Reality: Things get better

PEJ Wall

“Proud Member of the Philippine E‐Journals” is how the new PEJ badge reads.

In the Philippine E-Journals (PEJ) team’s effort to recognize the manycolleges, universities, and professional organizations supporting the e-journals initiative of C&E Publishing, Inc., a Web 2.0 badge that can be displayed on the member-institutions’ Web pages was launched in October.

To better cater to the need of researchers, students, and faculty of finding the journals specific to their disciplines, strengthen our link with our partner-institutions, and improve user navigation through our journals, we introduced an improved layout of the PEJ homepage in September.

Users now can easily look through the journals on the homepage by searching by discipline, publisher, or status per accrediting or indexing authority.

CHED JAS or the Commission on Higher Education Journal Accreditation System is “a mechanism through which a national standard for peer review and journal refereeing system can be implemented” for all research journals published in the Philippines. SciVerse Scopus is a prestigious bibliographic database of abstracts and citations of scholarly journals. Thomson Reuters indexes scholarly journals in the sciences and social sciences and measures their importance in their given fields according to number of citations.

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CHED urges publishers to join PEJ!

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) encourages publishers and editors-in-chief of CHED-accredited research journals to partner and collaborate with the Philippine E-Journals (PEJ) in making the research works of Filipino scholars globally accessible.

CHED Chair Dr. Patricia Licuanan released a memorandum recognizing that publishing through PEJ would:

  • Promote the CHED-Journal Accreditation Service to other HEIs and professional organizations who may want to have their research journals recognized as having undergone and passed a national journal refereeing system;
  • Promote the CHED-Journal Accreditation Service to other HEIs and professional organizations who may want to have their research journals recognized as having undergone and passed a national journal refereeing system;
  • Improve the online visibility and readership of the Philippines’ academic journals especially the CHED-accredited journals in the worldwide research community; and
  • Promote electronic publishing as an alternative, cost-efficient method of supporting and promoting scholarly publications done by Filipinos.

PEJ provides free publishing of journals on its online repository and offers the following services to participating educational institutions and professional organizations:

  • Web hosting
  • Payment gateway management for online journal/article purchases
  • Journal setup
  • Technical support

Make your journals available to worldwide readers!

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Contact PEJ at ejournals@cebookshop.com or call (02) 929-5088 local 145.


Source:

“On-Line Publication of CHED-Accredited Research Journals.” Commission on Higher Education (CHED). Commission on Higher Education Republic of the Philippines, 27 June 2011. PDF.

CHED Memos

The E-Publishing Landscape: Revolutions and Likely Futures

Volume 3, Issue 4 (July-August 2011)

Table of Contents

  • The E-Publishing Landscape: Revolutions and Likely Futures
  • EBOOKS: Enhancements and File Formats
  • Digital Checkout

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The E-Publishing Landscape: Revolutions and Likely Futures

The ability to keenly anticipate change and appropriately react and gracefully adapt to it has always been valued as the necessary advantage in ensuring one’s survival and continued prosperity. And this generalization cannot be exemplified more clearly than today’s global world, heavily depending and thriving on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in its daily workings.

With literally hundreds of millions of websites online and the equally telling billions of people using the Internet and the World Wide Web on a day-to-day basis, Google becoming a verb as in the common contention “I googled it!” and books now being born digital, it is safe to say that societies from all corners of the globe are going more and more digital by the minute. Although this advancing digital nature of our nascent ways of living may not be as “binary” as what we saw in The Matrix, the effects and changes it has brought into the many aspects of our existence are nevertheless truly experienced and thoroughly felt.

All of this is very transparent in the recent developments in the publishing industry. The arrival of the information age in conjunction with technological innovations pushed open the doors to a new landscape of publishing—the electronic kind or e-publishing.

Kindling the Boom of Ebooks

With all the excitement generated by Amazon’s release of its popular e-reader only four years ago and the consequent craze on acquiring ebooks in our very own digital libraries, it may come as a surprise to find out that the first ebook was actually created forty years ago. On July 4, 1971, Michael S. Hart had an epiphany of returning the big favor granted him when given a free account to a powerful Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the University of Illinois. And he did it by creating an electronic copy of The U.S. Declaration of Independence—the first ever ebook. He typed the text and made it available for download for free over a computer network. This effort of Hart marked the beginning of an initiative which aims “to put at everyone’s disposal, in electronic versions, as many literary works from public domain as possible for free” (Lebert 5) and to date houses a vast collection of 36,000 ebooks available for free download for everyone: Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org).

However, despite the digitization efforts of endeavors like the Project Gutenberg, ebooks and e-publishing in general did not really take center stage until the introduction to the market of Amazon’s Kindle in November 2007. The Kindle’s popularity, unprecedented by similar reading devices before it, and the ensuing increase in ebook sales on Amazon.com grabbed the attention of publishers from all over the world and opened up wide the playing field for e-publishing. The Kindle’s portability and memory size (i.e, its ability to store hundreds of books and let you keep a library in your pocket!) plus Amazon’s extremely low prices for ebooks, as compared to the print counterparts, as well as its option for users to browse and purchase ebooks directly from the device made for a very attractive package deal for book lovers and avid readers of all ages.

The hard-to-miss enthusiasm of the day’s consumers for ebooks and, among other devices, the Kindle, then, was an early indication that books are not dead—keeping pace with virtual world, of course, but not dead.

Embracing the New Canvas

While the publishing industry was still abuzz with excitement for the trends and developments brought about by Amazon’s Kindle, a new technological innovation yet again shook up the almost-equilibrium state of the e-publishing landscape. The introduction of the iPad in April 2010 ushered in a new wave of possibilities and potentials for the ebook.

This iPad’s release established the so-called “tablet era” of computers and offered a platform capable of scores of previously unachievable enhancements for the ebook. Consequently, the term “enhanced ebooks” became the new talk of the town. Left and right, publishers and authors began producing ebooks peppered with enhancements never seen before and certainly impossible to realize with the print medium (e.g., Alice for the iPad’s creative use of the accelerometer or the reading device’s ability to respond to the turning, tilting, and rotating of the device). And so with these new enhancements and their seemingly endless possibilities, reimagining the book, once again, becomes a matter of creativity, innovation, and takin the risk of jumping off the edge of the old publishing paradigm.

But perhaps the most interesting among these potentialities that will ultimately change the way we define, produce, and consume books is the shifting of the book from a physical object to a digital social object. To illustrate, Amazon now offers the Popular Highlights functionality wherein readers can highlight and write notes on their ebooks and retrieve them online.

Reimagining the book , once again, becomes a matter of creativity, innovation, and taking the risk of jumping off the edge of the old publishing paradigm.

Next Stop: In the Cloud!

Imagine a world where you wouldn’t need a hard drive to store in or retrieve from your ebooks and other electronic documents, and where you can access your files whenever and wherever you wish to on any screen or device (Shatzkin). Imagaine you hang all of your stuffs in the cloud. Imagine the convenience, the flexibility! Putting everything in the cloud (i.e., online on the Internet) will certainly solve the long agonized problem of Digital Rights Management (DRM) since you would not need to have copies of your ebooks or documents on your computer.

The publishing industry is facing many tumultuous and crucial changes and shifting to an excitingly different vista. So now is not the time to panic or give up. The democratizing nature of the digital medium presents once-in-a-lifetime opportunities—just waiting to be noticed and exploited. Hence, these final words to all the publshers in the 5th information age: Carpe Diem!

“The future book—the digital book—is no longer an immutable brick. It’s ethereal and networked, emerging publicly in fits and starts. An artifact ‘complete’ for only the briefest of moments. Shifting deliberately. Layered with our shared marginalia. And demanding engagement with the promise of community implicit in its form. The book of the past reveals its individual experience uniquely. The book of the future reveals our collective experience uniquely.”

Craig Mod, Post Artifact Books & Publishing

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