The University Publishing House and its commitment to the extension of the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua, Managua (UNAN-Managua)

Abstract

One of the important functions of University Publishing Houses is to publish academic works resulting from research, teaching and university extension processes. The teacher, the student, the researcher or the extensionist who wants to publish with the Editorial Universitaria de la UNAN-Managua, must go through a process that starts from the acceptance of the work, the edition, the correction, the design and the printing of the sample for final approval, to print the work. University extension projects have completed  their intervention with the publication of their memoirs, systematizations, characterizations, bilingual intercultural curricular adaptations or magazines of the work of the University Extension. At this point, it is where the Editorial collaborates with transmitting these experiences that are carried out from the university extension.
In the 1980s, the Printing Press, now the  University Publishing House, was born as a project to support teaching: brochures, dossiers and class documents that the teacher used were printed. In the last two decades, the level of specialization of the University Publishing House has improved considerably: internal controls and procedures have been established, the equipment has been improved, the Publishing, Art and Graphic Design areas have been created, and the Editorial Board has been set up. The following article deals with the passage from the Printing Press to the University Publishing House, its background, structure, relationships and functions. This innovation is the product of learning, the recognition of other experiences and the adaptation of the Editorial to the University  model  that UNANManagua represents. The  Press,  fulfilled its function as a unit of  reproduction of knowledge, to now be a University Publishing House producing academic, scientific and cultural content.