Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, Vol. 5, No. 3, August 2017 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 16 P-ISSN 2350-7756 | E-ISSN 2350-8442 | www.apjmr.com Organizing and Systematizing Knowledge Management through an Automated University-based Research Portal Marie Paz E. Morales 1 , Edna Luz R. Abulon 2 , Roxan C. Ermita 3 , Adonis P. David 4 Philippine Normal University abulon.elv@pnu.edu.phl 1 , morales.mpe@pnu.edu.phl 2 , ormita.rc@pnu.edu.ph 3 , david.ap@pnu.edu.ph 4 Date Received: April 17, 2017; Date Revised: July 29, 2017 Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research Vol. 5 No.3, 16-26 August 2017 Part II P-ISSN 2350-7756 E-ISSN 2350-8442 www.apjmr.com Abstract –Grounded on the need for higher education institutions to promote and practice knowledge management and research culture through technology, the present study reports the development of a web-based research portal in one government-owned university. To address the objectives of designing, developing, and evaluating the research portal, the study implemented three phases: Phase 1 focused on the planning and designing of the research portal; phase 2 involved the development and try-out of the research portal; and phase 3 refers to the evaluation of the research portal. The output of the design and development phases is a web-based research portal that has automated features on research procedures, publication processes, database management, and research dissemination and utilization. The results of the quantitative part of the evaluation phase indicate that the research portal has high to excellent quality in terms of the following features: construction and features; design and aesthetics; completeness; accuracy; functionality; usefulness; and user-friendliness. The high to excellent rating may be sourced from the novelty of the program, but the platform’s user-friendly features encouraged users of all ages, to make their research activities more manageable and more efficient. Qualitative comments from the evaluation of the portal supported the quantitative results although certain limitations were identified for the enhancement of the research portal. Researchers recommend that the web-based research portal be fully operational and be made accessible to various stakeholders while continually monitoring, evaluating, and enhancing its design and features. Keywords –database, knowledge management, learning management system, open journal system, research management system. INTRODUCTION Knowledge-based society or economy seems to drive better economic growth, reduce poverty index, and provide better global indices for countries. In fact, the Asian Development Bank [1] reported that building such economies is the most suitable way of ensuring strong and long-term growth which, however, requires quality and accessible higher education, sound information infrastructure, strong research and development, and persistent innovation to support it all. These contentions place a vital role in higher institutions to implement a quality educative process. Accordingly, Eid [2] argued that higher education plays a crucial role in the society by creating new knowledge, transmitting this knowledge to students, and fostering innovation. In this quest, knowledge becomes the major product of each education institutions in the country, which as claimed by several authors [3]-[6] should be properly managed to: 1) generate more knowledge; 2) access valuable knowledge from outside sources; 3) use accessible knowledge in decision making; 4) embed knowledge in process, products and/or services; 5) represent knowledge in documents, database, and softwares; 6) facilitate knowledge growth through culture and incentives; 7) transfer existing knowledge into other parts of the organization; and 8) measure the value of knowledge assets and/or impact of knowledge management. Seemingly, in a knowledge-based society [7], higher education institutions predominantly spell out knowledge management as a productive tool for knowledge creation, innovation, and sustainability [8]- [10]; knowledge flow and transfer [9]; and technical information systems [9] through their respective research centers. Admittedly, research centers of