​General Directorate for Academic publishing and press is the window that holds the publishing intellectual production of King Saud University to the surrounding world, has passed the formation of this administration in several stages since it began publishing at King Saud University in 1391 H, then create a partition scientific publishing MUC in 1398 H, then transfer this section to University building new Diriyah in 1405 AH, and in 1417 was annexed Department of Scientific Publications and Printing university under the name of Academic Publishing and printing presses to include this administration a number of departments and administrative units and technical, including: Department of Scientific Publications Section, output and design, and printing department and the Department of quality and production control, and management are going now progressing rapidly towards becoming a university publishing house on behalf of the House, King Sau d for publication, to be the first university publishing house in the Arab world.

 

The role of public administration for publishing scientific and presses in the publishing and printing of intellectual production of the university and academic researchers from abroad, فتتولى Leaders edit and output as approved by the Scientific Council of the University of the books, as well as edit and print journals after arbitration and approval of bodies editing, as the Administration to print versions of research centers and scientific associations, seminars and conferences and mission of the university and all university publications.

 

Given witnessed this administration of the development and modernization has recently quoted subordination of the Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research Agency boiled university for business development.

 

The Department of Scientific Publications One of the main sections of the General Administration of published scientific and presses, a first gate for publication, where the reception Council resolutions scientific publishing books and decisions editorial published scientific journals, and referred to it by the Office of Supervisor General Administration of published scientific and presses, to assume the screening business assets and hardcopy and electronically to determine its compliance with the technical specifications for publication and updating of elements missing, then begin work on a linguistic correction to this business, and edit technically through the application specification publication based at King Saud University, and is done to a section of the team of qualified and experienced of correctors linguists specialists and editors technicians, and works of this section on the development of tools work by taking advantage of new technologies, head down recently to work e-correction and editing, as Section contributes scientific publishing a large share in the work of development and implementation of the Strategic Plan of the General Department of Post and scientific presses, who shall now develop technical specifications for publication in line with international standards, and achieves Privacy Arab and Islamic countries.