The Scientific Publishing House is a university-wide organizational unit of the Maritime University of Szczecin and it has editorial and publishing functions. It is placed in an organizational sector of the Deputy Rector for Science, who supervises administrational and financial activity. The Scientific Publishing House is subordinate to an editor-in-chief. Editorial staff consists of workers taking care of a high substantive and editorial level of publications.

The Publishing House reviews editorially, publishes and spreads scientific, didactic and information publications such as: Scientific Journals, scientific works (monographs, habilitation theses), conference materials, textbooks, materials for lectures and exercises, methodical guidebooks, specialist dictionaries, information materials as well as other publications for the University.

The Publishing House of the MU is a member of the Stowarzyszenie Wydawców Szkół Wyższych (Higher Education Institution Publishers Association), which integrates all Polish university publishing houses. It participates in exhibitions of Polish scientific books as well as in trade market events (e.g. in Poznań Days of a Scientific Book), where it presents and spreads scientific works of the MU workers.

The Publishing House supervises the university magazine “Akademickie Aktualności Morskie” providing it with the appropriate editing and regularity of appearing.