UST LAUNCHES JOINT WEB PORTAL OF ACADEMIC JOURNALS
Responding to the global demand on higher education institutions to produce quality research outputs, the University of Santo Tomas (UST), through the Office of the Secretary-General, has created the UST Journal Affairs Committee (UJAC).
Through this initiative, an aggregate portal of all the university’s peer-reviewed and indexed research journals is now available to the public. Titled: “The UST Journals Online Portal,” it was officially launched by the Office of the SecretaryGeneral and the UJAC last Dec. 6, 2018 at the UST Paredes Building.
The UST Journal Affairs Committee is headed by the UST Secretary- General Rev. Fr. Jesus Miranda Jr., O. P., Ph. D. It is composed of the respective chief editors of the academic journals published by the various units of the university.
Through this committee, UST aims to intensify its support for the maintenance of these journals by bringing them together in a single official online portal, providing editors technical and financial assistance, guiding editors in maintaining quality assurance, and professionalizing the respective editorial boards, among others.
Now that the various UST academic journals are under one common platform, it will be easier for researchers to access content and information about the journals, specifically the respective submission and publication policies of each publication. Moreover, featuring various academic journals from different disciplines is an indication of the university’s commitment to knowledge production and dissemination, as well as the recognition of the academic efforts of the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and health sciences.
The “UST Journals Online Portal” can be accessed through http://journals.ust.edu.ph.