Education and academic production: the role of university editors

• Autor(a) principal: Abreu, Luciano Aronne de
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Estudos Ibero-Americanos
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/index.php/iberoamericana/article/view/32339
• topic: University Press. EDIPUCRS. History of university press.; Editoriales Universitarias. EDIPUCRS. Historia de las editoriales universitarias.; Editoras universitárias. EDIPUCRS. História das editoras universitárias.

The university publishers in Brazil were created only recently, in the years 1961 and 1962, respectively in the Universities of Brasília (UnB) and São Paulo (USP). This process, however, would be reactivated only in 1971, with the creation of the publishing house of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), and would become more expressive from 1982, with the creation of 19 other university publishing houses in all regions of Brazil, among which Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, EDIPUCRS (1988). The role and academic meaning of these publishers, however, has been changing over the years, from service providers to active participants and integrated into the institutional project of training, production and scientific dissemination of the universities to which they belong. Analyzing these issues, therefore, constitutes precisely the purpose of this study, based on the case of EDIPUCRS.