Pensoft Publishers
Pensoft Publishers (also known as: Pensoft) are a publisher of scientific literature based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Pensoft was founded in 1992, by two academics: Lyubomir Penev and Sergei Golovatch. Pensoft is part of the open-access publishing movement.
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- Founded
- 1992
- Founder
- Lyubomir Penev · Sergei Golovatch
- Headquarters
- Sofia
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Pensoft Publishers (also known as: Pensoft) are a publisher of scientific literature based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Pensoft was founded in 1992, by two academics: Lyubomir Penev and Sergei Golovatch. Pensoft is part of the open-access publishing movement.
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The Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY) is used for all journal articles. In 2012, Pensoft established a partnership with Encyclopedia of Life 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 data papers in collaboration with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Pensoft also published the first ever eukaryotic species description (Eupolybothrus cavernicolus) to combine transcriptomics, DNA barcoding, and micro-CT imaging data in the same paper, in the Biodiversity Data Journal.
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• Status — Active • Founded — 1992 • Founder — Lyubomir Penev, Sergei Golovatch • Country — Bulgaria • Headquarters — Sofia • Distribution — Worldwide • Publications — Scientific journals and Books • Topics — Taxonomy (biology), Biodiversity, Systematics, Entomology, Zoology, Botany, Ecology • Url — www.pensoft.net
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1992
Pensoft Publishers established.
1992
Pensoft Publishers is recorded from 1992.
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In June 2016, one of Pensoft's journals called Research Ideas and Outcomes (short name: RIO Journal) won a Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Innovator Award for "promoting and expanding transparency in scientific communication".
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- 1.About Pensoft. pensoft.net.
- 2.Browse Journals.
- 3.Erwin, T. Accelerating innovative publishing in taxonomy and systematics: 250 issues of ZooKeys. ZooKeys. 251. 1–10. 2012. 10.3897/zookeys.251.4516.
- 4.Chavan, V. The data paper: A mechanism to incentivize data publishing in biodiversity science. BMC Bioinformatics. 12. Suppl 15. S2. 2011. 10.1186/1471-2105-12-S15-S2.
- 5.New incentive for biodiversity data publishing. EurekAlert!. 1 June 2011.
- 6.Narwade, S. Literature based species occurrence data of birds of northeast India. ZooKeys. 150. 407–417. 2011. 10.3897/zookeys.150.2002.
- 7.First database-derived 'data paper' published in journal. EurekAlert!. 28 November 2011.
- 8.Edmunds, S. C. Biodiversity research in the "big data" era: Giga Science and Pensoft work together to publish the most data-rich species description. GigaScience. 2. 1. 14. 2013. 10.1186/2047-217X-2-14.
- 9.The cyber-centipede: From Linnaeus to big data.
- 10.Stoev, P. Eupolybothrus cavernicolus Komerički & Stoev sp. N. (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae): The first eukaryotic species description combining transcriptomic, DNA barcoding and micro-CT imaging data. Biodiversity Data Journal. 1. 2013. 10.3897/BDJ.1.e1013.
- 11.SPARC Innovator: RIO Journal.
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Pensoft Publishers is recorded as founded by Lyubomir Penev and Sergei Golovatch. Associated with Bulgaria and Belgium. Recorded from 1992.
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