The Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research seeks to develop " the Department of Publishing and Translation ," at the university and change it to the " Center of Publishing and Translation " to contribute to the sustainable development and actively participate in building the cognitive society, therefore the noble approval has been come from the Board of the University at the sixth session under the resolution No. (3-6 / 1433 H), to transform the " Department of Publishing and Translation " and be under the name of the " Center of Publishing and Translation " at the university, where this change has been submitted to the Board of the Higher Education.
The Center of Publishing and Translation at the University of Majmaah is considered as an administrative and technical party, that is in charge of supervision on the scientific works, the composed and the translated ones, in terms of the process of approval, reviewing , editing, auditing, and publishing, in addition to holding seminars and scientific conferences and workshops in the field of translation, authoring, and publishing.
The Center is linked administratively with the Vice Rector for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, and is considered as the executive party of the Scientific Council in matters of scientific publishing and translation, where the Centre publishes the versions which are approved by the Scientific Council. However, all acts of publishing and translation should be achieved at the university in accordance with the " unified list for scientific research in the Saudi universities " which was issued under the resolution of the Higher Education Council No. 02/10/1419 H.
The versions of the Centre are varied including: reference books , textbooks , research, works of seminars and conferences, catalogs, scientific encyclopedias , dictionaries , indexes , and scientific messages , in addition to the three scientific journals.
The Board of the Department of the Center consists of the Vice Rector for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, Director of the Center , and 8 members of faculty members at the university representing various scientific and knowledge disciplines as well as their excellence experience in publishing, authoring, and translation , and their academic rank shouldn't be less than assistant professor .