"E-journal shortly" module claims to have its own permissions, but it hasn't

Are you sure there isn't any 'add ejournal-{jid} shortly' permission on the permission page?
Because that comes from the standard drupal hook.

But you must have at least one journal set up, otherwise the permission will not appear (would be useless, it is bound to a journal)

84 /**
85 * hook_perm: Define user permissions for module ejournal
86 */
87 function ejournalshortly_perm() {
88 $journals = db_query("SELECT * FROM {ejournal_journals} WHERE jid>=1");
89 while($journal = db_fetch_object($journals)) {
90 $perms[] = 'add ejournal-'.$journal->jid .' ' . 'shortly';
91 }
92 return $perms;
93 }