Pensoft Publishers (also known as: Pensoft) are a

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of scientific literature based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Pensoft was founded in 1992, by two academics: Lyubomir Penev and Sergei Golovatch. It has published over 1000 academic and professional books and currently publishes over 60 peer-reviewed open access

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s including ''

ZooKeys ''ZooKeys'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering zoological taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeography. It was established in 2008 and the editor-in-chief is Terry Erwin (Smithsonian Institution). It is published by Pensoft Publ ...

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PhytoKeys ''PhytoKeys'' is a peer-reviewed, open-access online and print botanical journal. Its stated goal is "to support free exchange of ideas and information in systematic botany". Printed issues of the journal are available in the libraries of the Unit ...

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Check List ''Check List'' is a peer-reviewed, open access, on-line scientific journal that publishes Annotated Lists of Species (ALS), Notes on Geographic Distribution (NGD), Distribution Summary (DS), Book Reviews (BR) and Forum Papers (FP). The journal ...

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Comparative Cytogenetics ''Comparative Cytogenetics'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering plant and animal cytogenetics, karyosystematics, and molecular systematics. It was established in 2007 by the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sc ...

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Journal of Hymenoptera Research The ''Journal of Hymenoptera Research'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering systematics, taxonomy, and ecology of Hymenoptera. It was established in 1992, and transferred to publishing with Pensoft Publishers in 2011, under an open a ...

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Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift ''Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering systematic and taxonomic entomology. It was established in 1857 as ''Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift'' and obtained its current title in 1875 ...

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Zoosystematics and Evolution ''Zoosystematics and Evolution'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering zoological systematics and evolution. It was established in 1898 as ''Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Sammlung des Museums für Naturkunde in Berlin'' ...

''. Pensoft is part of the open-access publishing movement. The Creative Commons Attribution License ( CC-BY) is used for all journal articles. In 2012, Pensoft established a partnership with

Encyclopedia of Life The ''Encyclopedia of Life'' (''EOL'') is a free, online encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.9 million living species known to science. It is compiled from existing trusted databases curated by experts and with the assistance of non ...

called the EOL Open Access Support Project (EOASP) to financially support independent taxonomists, and taxonomists living in developing countries to publish their results in Pensoft journals. Pensoft were notably one of the first publishers to facilitate the publication of

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s in collaboration with the

Global Biodiversity Information Facility The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services. The data are provided by many institutions from around the ...

(GBIF). The first data paper they published came out in 2011, published in the journal

. Pensoft also published the first ever eukaryotic species description (''

Eupolybothrus cavernicolus ''Eupolybothrus cavernicolus'' is a species of centipede so far only found in two caves near the village of Kistanje, in Šibenik-Knin County, Croatia. It has been dubbed the ''cyber-centipede'' as it is the first eukaryotic species for which, i ...

'') to combine transcriptomics, DNA barcoding, and micro-CT imaging data in the same paper, in the Biodiversity Data Journal.

Awards

In June 2016, one of Pensoft's journals called ''

Research Ideas and Outcomes The ''Research Ideas and Outcomes'' (RIO) is a journal claimed to be both peer-reviewed, and open-access, published by Pensoft Publishers, stating a goal to promote transparency, reliability, and effectiveness in scientific research. Since its 2 ...

'' (short name: RIO Journal) won a

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) is an international alliance of academic and research libraries developed by the Association of Research Libraries in 1998 which promotes open access to scholarship. The coalition ...

(SPARC) Innovator Award for "promoting and expanding transparency in scientific communication".

List of journals

References

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* {{Authority control Academic publishing companies Publishing companies established in 1994 Open access publishers Bulgarian companies established in 1994