General Editor and Publisher
The general editor, Prof. Jose Fadul, a U.P. Diliman graduate but currently based at the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, was responsible for the general format of the work. He has also contributed substantially to the project itself. A review made mention that "the contributors, except for two or three, as virtually unknown in the academic field." A number of other Rizal scholars and Rizalists were earlier invited and agreed to contribute, but they have died just months before the Encyclopedia Rizaliana project formally commenced.
The earlier online version of the Encyclopedia Rizaliana, first introduced in June 1998 through Homestead Technologies, has ceased to exist in 2002. This online version, like the latter print, is designed for high school and first-year college students along with public library users in Metro-Manila. It was once available to some libraries as CD-ROM intended for college students, with an accompanying workbook for the Course in Rizal.
Currently, Encyclopedia Rizaliana is printed and bound by the Lulu Press, (a transnational company offering print-on-demand publishing and online order fulfillment) in paperback student edition and in casewrap-hardcover binding (i.e., a coffee-table edition). Copies of the two editions of the book were out as early December, 2007 but they were post-dated 2008. The cover is a photo-mosaic of a popular portrait of Rizal. The two said editions are also sold as downloadable PDF files.
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