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

Abstract

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.