
The Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador created the Center for Publications during the rectorship of Father Dr. Hernán Malo González, S.J., in 1974. It is structurally dependent on the General Academic Office and advises the Rector in regard to publications. For 42 years, it has diligently fulfilled its role while benefiting from the support of the entirety of the University’s academic departments and the intellectual capacity of its professors and researchers.The PUCE Center for Publications (CPPUCE) is the body in charge of publishing and disseminating the books and journals contained in the University's publishing catalog. It edits and promotes publications of an artistic, scientific, didactic, technical, religious and ethical nature, prepared by members of the University Community to ensure that PUCE, through its publications, communicates its Christian, academic, scientific, cultural and human values. MISSION: To edit and promote publications of an artistic, scientific, didactic, technical, religious and ethical nature, prepared by the members of the University Community to ensure that PUCE, through its publications, communicates its Christian, academic, scientific, cultural and human values. VISION: The Center for Publications will fortify its work by amplifying its editorial scope through co-publications with other national and international institutions, and will carry out activities to support PUCE's publishing duties. FUNCTIONS: To centralize the academic and cultural publications produced at PUCE by receiving requests from different academic departments, research and study groups, and profesors and students at PUCE; or from other educational, scientific or cultural institutions with which PUCE maintains or has signed special co-publishing agreements through the Provincial Branches of the PUCE National System (SINAPUCE). Also, to monitor and verify compliance with PUCE’s publication policies. To prepare accounting for PUCE-produced publications as part of the accounting system. To offer technical services and editorial advice to members of the university community who request it, in particular to the authors and editors of books and journals. To publish, promote, distribute and market PUCE's scientific and cultural publishing products. To organize book fairs and book presentations. To encourage and manage publishing agreements with national and international institutions in order to develop joint projects.
Contact information
- Name: Mtro. Santiago Vizcaino
- E-mail: wvizcaino688@puce.edu.ec
- Phone: +593 (2) 299–1700, Exts. 1122/1013/1711
Books from this publisher:
- Jambic Yuyu Yuraguna – Plants that heal – Cotopaxi Province
- Blue forrests: Wetlands at risk. A Latin American vision
- Thinking, Living, and Doing the education: shared visions Vol. 2
- Languages in Contact: Challenges in Diversity (volume 1)
- Jean-Luc Marion. The phenomenology of donation as a subsitute for metaphysics
- Urban planning in the era of complexity. Reflections for the building of sustainable, inclusive and innovative cities.
- THE GALAPAGOS HAWK
- UNIVERSITY, MEANING AND CRITICISM
- REVIEW OF THE ADULT-CENTRIC SOCIETY
- HUMBOLDT AND THE EMANCIPATION OF LATIN AMERICA
- APPLIED ETHICS TO THE WORLD OF PROFESSIONS. AN ACADEMIC PROPOSAL FOR 21ST CENTURY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
- COMPLIMENT TO ECUADOR’S TRADITIONAL CUISINE
- RED BOOK OF THE ENDEMIC PLANTS IN ECUADOR
- DICTIONARY OF ECUADORIAN SPANISH
- DETECTIVES IN THE AVANT–GARDE
- CRITICISM, ESSAY AND MEMORY IN LATIN–AMERICAN LITERATURE
- LAW: APPROACHES AND METHODS. A RETROSPECTIVE
- THE CONQUEST OF THE TROPICS. EXPLORERS AND BOTANISTS IN 19TH CENTURY IN ECUADOR
- FRONTIERS AND BORDERS. INTERDISCIPLINARY CHALLENGES OF CONTEMPORARY ART
- VOLCANOS, ASHES AND ANCIENT OCCUPATIONS IN GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE IN LATIN AMERICA. COLLECTION: STUDIES IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY, VOL. 2
- THE CONCEPT OF THE SACRED IN THE ANCIENT ANDEAN WORLD: PAN-REGIONAL ELEMENTS AND SPACES
- EVOLUTIONISM IN AMERICA AND EUROPE