Local Resources
The Sentro ng Wikang Filipino (SWF) of the University of the Philippines Diliman launched Aklatang Bayan Online in August 2020. This is a free online repository of Filipino books, refereed journals, books, and creative writings submitted by researchers, scholars, researchers, and writers.
ARCHIUM - Ateneo De Manila University Journals Online
The Office of the Associate Dean for Research and Creative Work (OADRCW) main responsibility is the promotion of research and creative work, scholarly publications, and linkages pertaining to scholarly work.
The ASEAN Digital Library is a regional project to aggregateand connect the digitised resources of National Libraries in the ASEAN region so that these repositories can be accessed through a single search facility. ADL is a project led by the National Library Board of Singapore, with support from the ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information (COCI).Overview: https://youtu.be/zTsvZPk7YMo
Abstracts and full text of journal articles published by Central Philippine University. Access to BAHANDIAN is free and there is no need to log in. Each item in Bahandian is also very easy to share on social media with the social media buttons.
CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art Digital Edition
An important compendium of data on Philippine art and culture for all generations, this online edition enters the new millennium cognizant of a generation of content consumers that are quick to adopt the latest trends in technology, have great access to information, and are globally connected, thus possessing the potential for a deep sense of empathy and an aspiration to reform the world.
Central Philippine State University (CPSU) Journals
The PSDRM Journal publishes articles about resource management and conservation, biodiversity, and social and technological development in the Philippines while the Philippine Innovative Education Journal (PIEJ) is a peer-reviewed journal of Central Philippines State University which provides a forum for researchers, school administrators, and teachers from within the university and among other institutions.
ChanRobles Virtual Law Library
The Virtual Law Library is the largest online source on Philippine Law since 1998, created by the ChanRobles Law firm. This contains full text of Philippine laws, statutes and codes, Supreme Court decisions, foreign constitutions and laws as well as thousands of links to worldwide Internet legal resources as well as general Internet guides, search tools and other sites of interest which you may find useful for legal, government, business and educational research.
Commission on Human Rights (CHR) eLibrary
The Commission on Human Rights’ library collection is accessible online and they also feature free online databases. The eLibrary contains information on their resources that specialize on human rights issues. The library accommodates research and scanning requests.
COVID-19 E-resources (Philippines)
Compiled by Legislative Library, Archives and Museum, House of Representatives, COVID-19 E-resources website is “a compilation of COVID-19 policies and issuances, laws and legislations, publications, websites, and databases, published by local and foreign governments, academic institutions, international organizations, and health science publishers.”
Datos PH is a public repository of Philippine data that spans a lot of categories: from natural language processing data to law enforcement to natural hazards, you name it!
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) e-Library
The DTI eLibrary is a curation of information, education, and communication (IEC) materials that supports the Department’s mission to be the main economic catalyst that enables innovative, competitive, job generating, inclusive business; and empowers consumers. Some publications are downloadable and their online catalog is also open to the public.
DepEd Commons contains online review materials and Open Educational Resources (OER) authored by public school teachers who are subject matter experts. Teachers can retain, reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute the content by blending it with a learning management system for distance learning.
Ang DIWA ay isang refereed e-journal na naglalayong maglathala ng mga makabuluhan at makatuturang pag-aaral sa Sikolohiyang Pilipino na nagsusuri at umuunawa sa diwa at pagkataong Pilipino mula sa oryentasyon at perspektibong Pilipino tungo sa pagpapalawak ng pambansang kamalayan at kamulatan ng sambayanang Pilipino.
Diwa: Studies in Philosophy and Theology
Diwa: Studies in Philosophy and Theology is a refereed journal published twice a year by the Graduate Schools of Divine Word Seminary, Tagaytay City, and Christ the King Mission Seminary, Quezon City, Philippines.
Department of Science and Technology – Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic, and Natural Resources Research and Development (DOST-PCAARRD) has launched its online library. Their research, publications, technical reports, and other resources are available. Users are encouraged to create an account to access.
DOST Starbooks (Science and Technology Academic and Research-Based Openly Operated Kiosks) was established by the Science and Technology Information Institute (STII) to provide scientific and educational information to schools. Originally, Starbooks are access portals in key areas in the Philippines where residents can have access to the scientific information physically available at DOST (SciNeT), Philippine eLib project sources, freely-available online resources, and subscribed databases (if any).
DOST-Science and Technology Information (STII) Library
This contains the union catalog of the DOST ScINET-PHIL, a consortium of all the 21 libraries and information centers under the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) including its 15 regional offices. Library resources are available.
This library is a private library of the Ayala Foundation’s Arts and Culture Division. Their collection is focused on books and other materials authored by Filipinos or about the Philippines, with a focus on Philippine history and culture. They have an Online Library with digitized materials organized by subject.
A web platform and mobile application that provides students and educators with free and quick access to digital storybooks and eLearning videos. It features age-appropriate and engaging educational resources.
Index to Philippine Newspapers (IPN)
The Index to Philippine Newspapers (IPN) is the University of the Philippines Main Library's index to locally published newspapers.
Open-Source Database of Philippine Indigenous Instrument Sounds
LEGIS: Legislative Information System
A search-based system that allows access, retrieve, or save structured bills information and status as well as download full texts of Bills, and Resolutions, its Authorship, Committee Referrals, and the Nature of Bills from the 8th Congress to the present. Managed by the Legislative Library, Archives, and Museum, House of Representatives of the Philippine Congress.
LUMINA publishes refereed articles once a year with a vision of trail-blazing research excellence in the Philippines and serves as the researchers' light as they seek the truth and society's illumination when faced with tough challenges.
The official literature and visual arts publication of De La Salle University-Manila.
Marayum is a dictionary-making tool funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) that can be used as an online dictionary for Philippine indigenous languages.
National Library of the Philippines e-Resources Portal
Licensed electronic resources (eResources) made available by the NLP through the Reference Division (RD) and Filipiniana Division (FD) are databases of online journals, ebooks, audiobooks, and other eResources.
The National Agricultural Library "houses one of the world's largest collections devoted to agriculture and related sciences."
The Philippine E-Journals (PEJ) is an online collection of academic publications of different higher education institutions and professional organizations.
The Philippine eLib is a collaborative project of the National Library of the Philippines (NLP), University of the Philippines (UP), Department of Science and Technology (DOST), Department of Agriculture (DA), and the Commission on Higher Education (CHED).
Philippine Epics and Ballads Archive
A multi-media archive of Philippine literature such as epics and ballads, maintained by the Ateneo de Manila University.
Philippine Geographical Journal (PGJ)
Established on the 8th of December 1950, PGS is a professional organization of geographers and geography enthusiasts whose main goal is to stimulate geographic interest through research and education, as well as to apply geographic knowledge in all phases of human activities. PGS publishes the Philippine Geographical Journal (PGJ) and spearheads the annual National Conference on Geographical Studies (NCGS). PGS is part of the Philippine Social Sciences Council (PSSC), a private organization of professional social science associations in the Philippines.
Philippine Review of Economics
The Philippine Review of Economics is devoted to the publication of theoretical and empirical work in economic development.
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints is an internationally refereed journal that publishes scholarly articles and other materials on the history of the Philippines and its peoples, both in the homeland and overseas.
Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy (PIJP)
Philosophia: International Journal of Philosophy (PIJP) is published by the Philippine National Philosophical Research Society (PNPRS). It publishes articles that present all types of philosophical points of view. It is open to all branches of philosophy and all types of philosophical idiosyncrasies for as long as the arguments are rationally and logically presented.
PHL CHED Connect Platform contains higher education materials in various formats that are useful for teaching, learning, and research purposes.
The Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas (SPP) aim of promoting research and setting a collegial venue where researchers in various fields of physics can find opportunities for creative scientific work and productive exchange of ideas. The Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas publishes full-length peer-reviewed articles in physics that are presented in the annual Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Physics Congress while PISIKA is the online, open-access, and peer-reviewed physics and applied physics journal publication of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas.
SCIENTIA is the official scholarly multi-disciplinary journal of the College of Arts and Sciences, San Beda University on the Liberal Arts and focuses on Social Anthropology, Speculative Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Systems of Ethics, Higher Religious Studies, Inter-religious Dialogue, Historical Issues, and Historiography, New Historicism, Political Theories, Literary and Artistic Theories, Hermeneutics and Textual Criticism, Linguistics and Translation, Cultural and Gender Studies.
The digital repository of scholarly and research information of the department. This is to enable the effective dissemination of AQD researchers' in-house and external publications for free and online.
The SILLIMAN JOURNAL is devoted to discussion and investigation in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, and is published by Silliman University, Dumaguete City, Philippines. SJ publishes two issues per year and has more than 200 journal exchanges with educational institutions, government bodies, and non-government organizations worldwide.
Socioeconomic Research Portal for the Philippines (SERP-P)
An online knowledge resource that contains socioeconomic studies and materials produced by the Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS) and other academic and research institutions. Users can access socioeconomic materials in various formats: journal articles, books, working papers, policy notes, research papers, newsletters from multiple sources.
Southeast Asia Digital Library
Provides free and open access to a variety of materials created in and about Southeast Asia. SEADL supports researchers, educators, and members of the public by aggregating and contextualizing these unique digitized materials in a single online environment that can be easily browsed and searched.
Supreme Court of the Philippines eLibrary
The “primary research tool in the speedy delivery of justice.” It serves the entire Judiciary: the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, Sandiganbayan, Court of Tax Appeals, Regional Trial Courts, Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts and Shari’a Courts. It has supported legal education by providing information to law schools upon request.
The Educational Measurement and Evaluation Review
The PEMEA is a professional organization of educators, researchers, teachers, and assessment, measurement, testing, and evaluation practitioners. On their website, drag the arrow mouse to "EMEReview", you'll be able to see the available Volumes to download.
University of Santo Tomas Journals Online
Brings together the various UST Academic Journals (ACTA Manila, Ad Veritatem, The Antoninus Journal, The Asian Journal of English Language Studies, Boletin Eclesiasrtico de Filipinas, HASAAN, Journal of Medicine, University of Santo Tomas, Journal of Social Health, Kritike, Philippine Journal of Allied Health Sciences, Philippiniana Sacra, Tomas, Unitas, University Heritage Catalogs, and Books Printed by the UST Publishing House) under one common platform. It allows researchers to access content and information about the journals, specifically their submission and publication policies.
University of the Philippines (U.P.) Diliman Journals Online
The University of the Philippines (U.P.) Diliman Journals Online is a free online service exclusively offered to U.P. Diliman journals. It aims to gather all the U.P. Diliman journals in a single repository; widen their dissemination and visibility online, and provide journal editors with a convenient means of implementing the editorial process.
UST Miguel de Benavides Library
The UST Miguel de Benavides Library is engaged in a remarkable project called Lumina Pandit II which is being supported by the UnionBank of the Philippines. The project consists of three major components: conservation, digitization, and publication of the UST Heritage Library rare collections housed in the Library as well as the Archives collections.
FILIPINIANA EBOOK SITES
For Filipiniana selections which are prized for their cultural and intellectual value, but are largely unavailable now because many have not yet been digitized and opened for online access. The Freelipiniana Online Library seeks to bring Filipiniana literature to every Filipino in a time when information and education are limited.
Multong Aklat: Endangered Books Digital Archive
In response to the book banning of Communist-related books in libraries in the Philippines, concerned groups compiled an online collection of ‘subversive’ books.
National Commission for Culture and Arts (NCCA) free books
The NCCA has 9 free books on Philippine culture, art, and history available for free from their website.
National Museum of the Philippines Free Books
The National Museum of the Philippines has books on Philippine history and culture available for free from their website. These books are digitized in PDF format and can be downloaded.
We search for and compile the available Filipiniana materials for them to be accessible to you—learners, teachers, and writers—from one single source, in high-quality versions, at no cost.
Tagalog eBooks curates available eBooks online in the Filipino language. It is created and maintained by a Filipina in New Zealand working in digital publishing.
The Learning Basket: Free Filipino children's books
Free downloads of Filipino children's books from various publishers.
ATENEO PUBLICATIONS
(Ateneo Journals Collections)
Asia Pacific Mission Studies (APMS) is an electronic open-access online journal. Responding to the increasing role of electronic media, APMS succeeds its predecessor, East Asian Pastoral Review (EAPR), which ended its publication in 2016 in printed form. Like EAPR, APMS is the publication of the East Asian Pastoral Institute (EAPI), run by the Society of Jesus within the campus of Ateneo de Manila University. EAPI specializes in pastoral renewal and leadership programs for pastoral agents and missionaries of the Asia-Pacific region. In line with the thrust of EAPI, APMS aims to promote knowledge and research related to the mission of the Church, in a way that bridges theology and ministry in the Asia-Pacific context, and facilitates informed praxis and effective witnessing by the Church. Although the journal is not a peer-reviewed publication, it endeavors to maintain a high level of theological and pastoral standards.
The Ateneo Law Journal strives to remain as one of the benchmarks in legal scholarship in the country by providing a comprehensive forum where thoughts, ideas, and opinions meet on legal matters, whether of interest to the Bench, the Bar, the law student, or the common Filipino. The Journal earnestly carries out its responsibility as a medium for initiating discourse in various fields of law, reflecting a continuous collaboration and interaction among students, faculty, practitioners, and the government.
Budhi: A Journal of Ideas and Culture
Budhi is an international and peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of philosophy that seeks to encourage creative and critical contemporary interpretations and appropriations of the history of ideas as well as theoretical constructions addressing contemporary culture and society.
Journal of Management for Global Sustainability
The Journal of Management for Global Sustainability (JMGS) is an internationally peer-reviewed open access scholarly journal on management and global sustainability published semi-annually (June and December) by the John Gokongwei School of Management of the Ateneo de Manila University for the International Association of Jesuit Business Schools (IAJBS).
As a double blind peer reviewed journal, Katipunan publishes latest research that promotes the use of Filipino as a language for ciritical research and academic discourse, and cultivates the discipline of Philippine studies. Aside from the application of literary and critical theory, the journal’s commitment to interdisciplinarity aims to develop knowledge production that uses the Filipino experience to understand the categories of the global and international. The journal publishes two issues per year.
Kritika Kultura is an open-access semi-annual peer-reviewed international electronic journal of literary, language, and cultural studies of the Department of English of the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines.
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia
Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities Asia (formerly Asian Perspectives in the Arts and Humanities is a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year by the School of Humanities of the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. It welcomes papers on the different arts (literary, performing, visual, or media), philosophy, and theology in Asia or in the Philippines. Multidisciplinary in scope, it seeks to shed light on issues related to culture and identity and to record major developments in the arts and humanities.
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints
Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints is an internationally refereed journal (double-blind peer review) that publishes scholarly articles and other materials on the history of the Philippines and its people, both in the homeland and overseas.
Social Transformations Journal of the Global South
Social Transformations: Journal of the Global South is an internationally peer-reviewed print and open access electronic journal that analyzes social movements, development paradigms, relations, policies, tensions, contradictions, and socio-political interventions in the Global South. We are interested in employing interdisciplinary methodologies to produce reflexive theorizing and commentary on contemporary social change in countries once associated with the Third World. Given the history of uneven relations with the Global North and the social ills of poverty and violence in the South, we hope to generate research that addresses issues of social justice, global well-being, and translocal sustainable development.
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