This work deals with publishing policy, considering how it is done and which aspects should be taken into consideration in the specific context of higher education institutions in Brazil. It considers what is available about this theme on the literature and the observation of the practices and knowledges. It is concluded that the diversity in modes of articulation can convey alternative publishing propositions having the structures as the backgound and conjunction of forces and problems, as well as the advances of production technologies, as mobilization factors.
University publishing policy; University presses