La Editorial Universitaria y su compromiso en la extensión de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de 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.