The Ministry of Education and Science (, ''Ministerstvo na obrazovanieto i naukata'') of

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

is the ministry charged with regulating and promoting the

education Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education als ...

al and

scientific Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of testable hypotheses and predictions about the universe. Modern science is typically divided into twoor threemajor branches: the natural sciences, which stu ...

work in the country. It was founded as the Ministry of Popular Enlightenment in 1879 and existed under this name until 1947, after which it changed its name numerous times. In 2009 the name changed from "Ministry of Education and Science" to "Ministry of Education, Youth and Science". In 2013, this change was reversed.

Az-Buki

The national publishing house "Az-buki" under the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science currently publishes the weekly newspaper "Az-buki" ("Аз-буки" in Bulgarian) and 9 scientific journals. Its publications are intended for students, tutors, Bulgarian cultural centers and communities in and outside Bulgaria. Nadia Kantareva-Baruh is the director of the publishing house.

Newspaper

The first edition of the national newspaper "Az-buki" came out on April 10, 1991. The weekly publication continues the tradition of a newspaper, which started to come out in 1896. "Az-buki" is distributed by means of subscription and each individual copy is read by an average of 22,8 people.

Publications

The list below includes nine scientific journals, which are indexed, referred, listed and abstracted in international databases, such as

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, Philosopher's Index,

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, ERIH PLUS,

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and Russian Science Citation Index. * ''Bulgarian Language and Literature (Bulgarski Ezik i Literatura)'' listed through EBSCOhost Research Databases. Bulgarian Language and Literature Journal has been included in Web of Science (Q4 of JCI), the European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS) and RSCI. * ''History (Istoriya)'', indexed, referred, listed and abstracted in Web of Science (Q4 of JCI), ERIH PLUS, RSCI, CEEOL. * ''Pedagogy (Pedagogika)'' – in Web of Science (Q4 of JCI); RSCI; CEEOL; ERIH PLUS * ''Mathematics and Informatics'' – in Web of Science (Q4 of JCI), ERIH PLUS, RSCI, CEEOL. * ''Natural Science and Advanced Technology Education'' – in Web of Science (Q4 of JCI), ERIH PLUS, RSCI, CEEOL, SCOPUS. *''Vocational Education'' – ERIH PLUS, RSCI, CEEOL, EBSCOHost, Google Scholar. * ''Philosophy, (Filosofiya)'' – in Web of Science (Q4 of JCI), Philosopher's Index, ERIH PLUS, RSCI, CEEOL. * ''Foreign Language Teaching, (Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie)'' – in Web of Science (Q3 of JCI), ERIH PLUS, RSCI, CEEOL. * ''Strategies for Policy in Science and Education (Strategii na Obrazovatelnata i Nauchnata Politika)'' – in Web of Science (Q4 of JCI), Philosopher's Index, ERIH PLUS, RSCI, CEEOL.

References

External links

Official website
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