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Cymbeline Villamin
FIRST ONLINE PUBLISHER IN THE PHILIPPINES

Cymbeline Villamin  is a pioneer of epublishing in the Philippines. The New Infoscience Magazine which she edited, was the first online science magazine in the country that was first published in 1996 at the web site of the Science and Technology Information Institute (STII), one of the 20 agencies under the Department of Science and Techology.

In 2003, Cymbeline spearheaded the science ebooks project, wherein public domain full texts on science, including The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, The World's Biomes, and Biographies of Early Scientists in the Philippines, among other digitized books, were compiled on a CD, and given to STII library users and researchers for free. The Ayala Foundation uploaded the ebooks in the servers of more than a hundred selected science-oriented schools in the country. Such has inspired Dr. Tom Murray, a professor of technology at Lynchburg College in Virginia, United States to donate his Microsoft Tutorials, to add to the contents of the STII science ebooks.

CASE STUDY WRITING GRANT AWARDEE OF ICT4D PHILIPPINES

The STII experience in ebooks publishing was documented by Cymbeline in a case study written in 2005 with a grant from ICT4D Philippines - Department of Science and Technology and was published together with other ICT4D articles in a book that compiled the initial Philippine experiences in ICT4D, released in 2007.

The complete citation is:

Villamin, Cymbeline R. "Ebooks ng Bayan: the STII Experience in CD Publishing," Philippine Experiences on Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) by Fortunato T. De la Pena and Paz H. Diaz (Eds.). Taguig City, Philippines: Department of Science and Technology and South Bridge Court, Singapore: International Research Development Centre of Canada - Regional Office for Southeast and East Asia, 2007, Pages 121-127.

From the CD version, the science ebooks are now easily accessible on the web from the DOST Online Public Access Catalog at. New additions are the 12 volumes of the Philippine Men of Science, starting from its maiden issue in 1962 up to the current issue released in June 2008.

EBOOKS NG BAYAN: LIBRE! LIBRE!

A passionate advocate of freedom of information without burdensome costs to the public, Cymbeline has created several websites that actualize this passionate advocacy:
 * Ebooks ng Bayan
 * Science eBooks
 * Public Domain Works
 * SILMS Pathfinder

SCHOLARLY WORK ON OPEN ACCESS

Villamin, Cymbeline. "Writing as an Adventure" Philippines Studies [Online], 53 30 Jun 2005

--Kerima Lopez 09:09, 25 August 2008 (UTC)