Creation and purpose
The origin of the publishing house of University of Murcia was the magazine Anales de la Universidad de Murcia (Annals of University of Murcia), which published twelve volumes between 1930 and 1954, with an interruption between 1932 and 1942. It contained knowledge of Law, Philosophy, Humanities and Science, which gave room to separate series: Annals of University of Murcia: Science, Annals of University of Murcia: Law, and Annals of University of Murcia: Philosophy and Humanities, which would endure until 1984, 1976 and 1980, respectively.
Afterwards other magazines would follow: Annals of Science (until 1988), Annals of Law (which persist today) and Annals of University of Murcia: Humanities. From 1985 on, this last title would give room to other magazines with separate topics: Annals of French Philology, Annals of Hispanic Philology, English Philology Journals, Imafronte, Myrtia, etc. [AML1]
The proper Publication service of the University was created during the 70s and it has carried out a double task: manage those corporate printing for those Units and Departments of the University and the solely editorial function. It is a generalist publishing house, as well as the University, which teaches degrees and researches in every branch of knowledge. This can be seen in its current catalogue: its collections, series and magazines contain every kind of topic.
Its aim is to spread academic knowledge and support learning. This is the reason why it combines the printing version and the online open access version. Doctoral theses were also fully published in the repository Doctoral theses in the net (Tesis doctorales en Red or TDR) until 2018. Scientific magazines publish a digital version managed by the Open Journal Systems programme. All publications are sent to other Spanish university libraries, as well as other scientific organizations, to contribute to Scientific Exchange (Intercambio Científico).
The Publication service started a new stage in 1996, when it divided its activities: the solely editorial field and the corporative printing house of University of Murcia (Imprenta Corporativa de la Universidad de Murcia).
It adopted the editorial seal “Editum” in 2006. It integrated the Latin word that means “edition” and the initials of the University of Murcia. Its trademark was designed by Maximiliano Gómez, teacher of Fine Arts. In 2019 the corporative image and the trademark of the Publication service (Editum) was redesigned.
