UKM Placed Second In The Ministry Of Higher Education Innovation Award 2011

BANGI, 4 Nov, 2011 – The National University of Malaysia (UKM) won second place in the Innovation Award 2011 of the Ministry of Higher Education (AIKPT 2011) with its project – Full Texts Electronic Journal: e-Journal Texts High Impact Search Centre (JETP).

Minister for Higher Education, Dato’ Seri Mohd Khaled Nordin presented the award - a trophy, certificate and cash of RM3,000 - to UKM Vice Chancellor, Prof Tan Sri Dato’ Wira Dr Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabuddin at a ceremony in Putrajaya yesterday.

JETP has last April won the UKM’s ICT Innovation Award and was the first runner-up at the ICC Malaysian Libraries Convention in Jun.

The Community College Study Department of the Ministry with its project ‘The Management of Information Using ePSH Based on On-Line Technology to Monitor Study for Life’ won the AIKPT 2011 award.

The Sultan Idris Teaching University (UPSI),Tanjung Malim came in third for its project, the University’s Integrated Information System.

The AIKPT Innovation Award has been held since 2009.This year’s award was on the theme “Innovation Spear heading the Ministry of Higher Education’s Transformation”.

A total of 50 innovation projects were received by the organising secretariat with 35 of them found to be qualified for competition after fulfilling the required conditions.

Out of the 35 selected, 13 were shortlisted for assessment with seven eventually competing as finalists which involved site visits.

The Senior Librarian of UKM’S Tun Seri Lanang Library (PTSL), Shamsudin Ibrahim said JETP was designed by the Innovative and Creative Group (KIK KLIK) from PTSL. The group consists of 14 staff of differing grades who began working on it in May 2010 and managed to finish the job within three months by July.

JETP can be access anywhere through URL http://www.eklik.ukm.my/jetp

It consists of 27,000 e-journals, 25,000 e-journals subscribed by UKM Library and another 5,000 without charge access in the internet.

 

JETP was built using the open source software, with no built-up costs thus saving the university up to RM100,000 if it had been developed by third party sources. It also enabled a savings of up to RM30,000 a year for UKM since the university’s users no longer needed to subscribe to overseas sources for information now made available through the facility.

Shamsudin said to date more than 150,000 access has been recorded an increase of over 200% compared to what was recorded last year.

“Users from 25 countries besides Malaysia were found to have accessed JEPT since they can also access it through smart phones and tablets apart from the internet.

“We have also made presentations to libraries in other institutes of higher learning in Malaysia and have received very good response,” he said.

Shamsudin said UKM users can check for articles in journals using JEPT while those outside the campus can go through the Suppliers Publications Services.

It also contained learning modules for Information Skills Courses used by library users andto check other journals to subscribe or referrals to the Reader’s Counseling Desk.

Besides the ministry’s award, JETP is also a finalist in the National Innovations Award. The final assessment for it will be held at PWTC on 15-16 November.

JETP will be commercialized through a UKM Start Up Company, UKM Technology Sdn Bhd once the updated version JETP 2.0 now in the final stage of development is ready for marketing by December.

JETP received RM100,000 from the UKM Innovation Fund last June for the JETP 2.0 update.

Shamsudin said JEPT had also resulted in time savings for its users since the search for high impact e-journals had been reduced to just two minutes down from 25 minutes needed previously.

“JETP also helpsin the sharing of information sources at the national level through Borrowings Between Libraries. PTSL has since  recorded 2.1 million down loadings for its full texts articles in 2010.

“The returns from our investments isRM2.40 per article of full texts since libraries subscribed to our e-journals. Otherwise researchers, academicians and UKM students who needed to buy full text articles will have to pay RM80-RM120 per article for down loading,” Shamsudin said. 

By Abdul Ghani Nasir
Pix by Ismail Ibrahim

 Friday, 04 November 2011 00:00 

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