As the chief information officer, I was the one whose
brainchild it was – complete name: Sylvatrop,
The Philippine Forest Research Journal – first published by the Forest
Research Institute
(FORI) with me as Editor In Chief.
I left FORI in 1981 for greener pastures; FORI has since transformed itself
into the Ecosystems Research &
Development Bureau (ERDB), and its mother agency the Department of Environment & Natural
Resources (DENR) has since become the publisher of the journal, name shortened
to Sylvatrop.
Sad News: Sylvatrop has been coming
out very late, at this Digital Age – the latest, July-December 2018, that is, 3
years behind schedule! We must publish results of researches as soon as possible, to keep the
technical public up-to-date with science.
I am reading what Adreana
S Remo and Carmela Kris Armilla
have written for the agency’s website, “ERDB Launches Pilot Mentorship Program
To Increase Published Research Results[1]”
(undated, Erdb.denr.gov.ph). Having
been Editor In Chief of The Typewriter-Age Sylvatrop of FORI and The
Digital-Age Philippine Journal of Crop
Science (PJCS) of the Crop Science
Society of the Philippines based at UP Los Baños, I see that the ERDB
led by Director Henry A Adornado is finally doing something concrete in
terms of speeding up publishing the results of ERDB researches. If late,
Director Adornado has this Digital Editor In Chief’s congratulations.
The
need for publication is being met now – the speed is not. Now an octogenarian, thank God, a self-taught digital writer,
editor & desktop publisher, I shake my head – with their issues 3 years
late, the Sylvatrop people require technique, technology and time to catch up!
Good Old News: I
was the Editor In Chief who made the PJCS from being 3 years late to up-to-date in 3 years and, in 2007, included in the elite international list “ISI“ (now “Web of Science“). Quality works! My
secrets? These: Beginning 1975, I was editing typed manuscripts; beginning 1985, self-learning digital skills: writing, editing,
layouting, up to complete desktop publishing.
For
Sylvatrop’s sake, I hereby volunteer as an experienced Digital Executive Editor, ranked below Sylvatrop’s Editor In
Chief, for 3 years, 6 semi-annual issues, to edit all the papers, desktop publish
each whole issue – at the same time show the journal staff, and anyone interested,
virtually, how I do/how they can do it themselves. Say yes!
How sure am I the Sylvatrop staff will learn digital
publishing from 81-year-old me? I am sure they will – or where will they hide
themselves if they cannot be taught even when they cannot deny that I taught myself all that I know about
editing technical papers and desktop publishing them into journal issues like I
did for the PJCS?
Digital
Sylvatrop? Where there is a will, there is a way!@517
[1]https://erdb.denr.gov.ph/erdb-launches-pilot-mentorship-program-to-increase-published-research-results/?fbclid=IwAR1HFL77Z8d1k-prONji7_UrQNxbAz9fSsYXAIUTwebLX7908lmteJ6LxuA
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