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The Philippine E-Journals Platform

C&E's Educational Technology Division uses the Open Journals System (OJS)—an open source journal management software that was developed by the Public Knowledge Project. The OJS has a built-in facility that indexes all journals in the Philippine E-Journals platform through the Open Archives Initiative search engines which harvest the metadata for each journal article. This process establishes and optimizes the journals’ online presence and visibility, thus increasing the readership and promoting the use of research works of Filipino scholars worldwide.

 

Rationale for the Philippine E-Journals Project

  • An aggregation of the Philippines' journals across a diverse range of academic disciplines greatly increases the journals' accessibility to researchers and educators around the globe, thus making the research works as useful as possible to a wider audience.
  • C&E will provide a full range of web hosting services. The universities can therefore be unburdened from the complex processes involved in uploading, accessing, and managing the e-journals since C&E will handle everything upon the universities' submission of the electronic files.

 

Criteria for Selecting Journals for Inclusion in the Philippine E-Journals Platform

  • The journals should be scholarly in content and should contain original research.
  • The journal publishers should be able to provide all the required content in electronic format (tables of contents, abstracts, and PDF files of the full-text articles)
  • The journals should be published in the Philippines.

 

Range of Services that C&E Can Offer to Participating Institutions

  • Provision of web hosting services
  • Setting up of the journals in the web platform (note that the universities will also be given complete access to control the look and contents of their journals)
  • Training of the universities and their editors on the use of the OJS software
  • Provision of technical support whenever necessary
  • Management of the payment gateway for downloaded journals/articles

 

Important Features of the Philippine E-Journals System

  • Journal articles can be accessed in full text online (either through open access, pay-per-view, or subscription). The table of contents of each journal and the abstract of every article can be viewed and downloaded for free.
  • Researchers can use the platform's sophisticated searching facility to easily locate articles of interest or those that would need to use for related studies in specific disciplines.
  • Email alerts are sent to the PEJ users to inform them about newly-published issues of the journals to which they are subscribed.
  • Each journal in the PEJ platform has its own home page, where the users can read about the objectives and scope of study of the journal, including pertinent information on how to submit articles for possible inclusion in each journal.
  • If a journal is available in print, the users will either be directed to the institutional website of the journal publisher or they will be given information about how to obtain copies.
  • Researchers can use the Reading Tools at the right portion of the page where an abstract is displayed. This set of tools can help the researchers in reading and using the abstracts by providing quick links to information about the authors and related articles and websites.
  • Automatic generation of citations in the required format can be done using the "Creating Citations" feature in the Reading Tools.
  • Researchers can quickly read the definition of difficult terms using online dictionaries by simply clicking twice on any word in an abstract.

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