Presses Universitaires de Dakar

Presses Universitaires de Dakar (PUD), also styled PUD-UCAD, is the university press of the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD) in Senegal. It operates as a service commun — a shared institutional service — of the university, and for roughly three decades it has been responsible for implementing and monitoring UCAD's publishing policy as well as that of partner academic institutions. Its core mission is to serve as an institutional vehicle for the valorisation of research and innovation and for the dissemination of scientific and didactic work produced within the university system. As a university press, PUD publishes scholarly, pedagogical, technical and cultural productions. It has adopted digital publishing in order to increase the reach and visibility of these outputs, complementing its traditional print activity. The service is open to the external public, while operating under the strict norms that govern scientific publication. In the legal framework of publishing, PUD safeguards the intellectual property of authors and of UCAD itself. Acting in the name of the Rector of UCAD, PUD holds competence over all matters in which the university is legally recognised as acting as a publisher. These responsibilities include the publishing contract with the author, respect for reproduction rights, intellectual property, co-edition with private or institutional publishers, legal deposit, the assignment of ISBN and ISSN numbers, scientific peer expertise, the diffusion and distribution of publications, the promotion of books, the accounting follow-up of publication sales, and the representation of UCAD in external bodies connected with publishing. Beyond its own catalogue, PUD collaborates — within the limits of its competences — with institutions and associations, particularly regional ones, active in the fields of culture and the conservation of heritage. Depending on its means, it also works with bodies outside UCAD whose missions are cultural in nature. In this way the press functions both as the publishing arm of Senegal's leading university and as a node in the wider Francophone and West African scholarly publishing ecosystem.

Presses Universitaires de Dakar operates as a service commun of the Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD), Senegal's principal university. According to its official presentation, the service has been charged for roughly thirty years with implementing and monitoring the publishing policy of UCAD and of its partner academic institutions. This places its origins within the broader development of university-based scholarly publishing in post-independence Senegal, where the national university became the central institution for higher education and research. Over that period, PUD's role has been defined less as an independent commercial publisher than as the institutional publishing arm of the university. Acting on behalf of the Rector of UCAD, it handles the full range of publishing functions in which the university is legally recognised as publisher: author contracts, reproduction rights, intellectual property, co-edition arrangements with private or institutional partners, legal deposit, ISBN and ISSN assignment, scientific expertise, diffusion and distribution, book promotion, and the accounting follow-up of sales. It also represents UCAD in external publishing-related bodies. A significant development in its history has been the integration of digital publishing. The press states that it has adopted digital edition in order to better valorise and render more visible its scientific, pedagogical, technical and cultural productions. This shift reflects a wider movement among African university presses toward digital diffusion as a means of overcoming distribution constraints and reaching wider scholarly audiences. PUD also positions itself within a collaborative network. It works with institutions and associations — particularly regional ones — active in culture and heritage conservation, and, depending on its means, with external bodies whose missions are cultural. Its catalogue and activities thus sit at the intersection of UCAD's research output, Senegal's cultural heritage sector, and the wider Francophone African academic publishing landscape.

• PUD has served for roughly three decades as the shared publishing service of UCAD and partner academic institutions.

• Integration of digital publishing to increase the visibility of scientific, pedagogical, technical and cultural productions.

Institutional university press of Senegal's leading university, dedicated to the valorisation and dissemination of scientific, didactic and cultural research outputs.

• Scholarly monographs and research works

• Academic journals

• Didactic and pedagogical publications

• Technical publications

• Cultural and heritage publications

• Digital editions

1. 1PUD-UCAD — Presses Universitaires de Dakareditions.ucad.sn
2. 2Presses Universitaires de Dakar — Wikidatawikidata.org