Pensoft Publishers

{{short description|Scientific publishing house}}

{{Infobox publisher

| image = File:Pensoft.gif

| status = Active

| founded = {{Start date|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 = {{URL|www.pensoft.net}}

}}

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.{{cite web|url=https://www.pensoft.net/about.php|title=About Pensoft|work=pensoft.net}} It has published over 1000 academic and professional books and currently publishes over 60 peer-reviewed open access scientific journals{{Cite web | url=https://pensoft.net/browse_journals |title = Browse Journals}} including ZooKeys, PhytoKeys, Check List, Comparative Cytogenetics, Journal of Hymenoptera Research, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, and Zoosystematics and Evolution.

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 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.{{Cite journal | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.251.4516| title = Accelerating innovative publishing in taxonomy and systematics: 250 issues of ZooKeys| journal = ZooKeys| issue = 251| pages = 1–10| year = 2012| last1 = Erwin | first1 = T. | last2 = Penev | first2 = L. | last3 = Stoev | first3 = P. | last4 = Georgiev | first4 = T. | doi-access = free| pmid = 23378804| pmc = 3536320| bibcode = 2012ZooK..251....1E}}

Pensoft were notably one of the first publishers to facilitate the publication of data papers{{Cite journal | last1 = Chavan | first1 = V. | last2 = Penev | first2 = L. | doi = 10.1186/1471-2105-12-S15-S2 | title = The data paper: A mechanism to incentivize data publishing in biodiversity science | journal = BMC Bioinformatics | volume = 12 | pages = S2 | year = 2011 | issue = Suppl 15 | pmid = 22373175| pmc = 3287445 | doi-access = free }}{{cite web|url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-06/pp-nif060111.php|title=New incentive for biodiversity data publishing|date=1 June 2011|work=EurekAlert!}} in collaboration with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The first data paper they published came out in 2011, published in the journal ZooKeys.{{Cite journal | doi = 10.3897/zookeys.150.2002| title = Literature based species occurrence data of birds of northeast India| journal = ZooKeys| issue = 150| pages = 407–417| year = 2011| last1 = Narwade | first1 = S. | last2 = Kalra | first2 = M. | last3 = Jagdish | first3 = R. | last4 = Varier | first4 = D. | last5 = Satpute | first5 = S. | last6 = Khan | first6 = N. | last7 = Talukdar | first7 = G. | last8 = Mathur | first8 = V. | last9 = Vasudevan | first9 = K. | last10 = Pundir | first10 = D. S. | last11 = Chavan | first11 = V. | last12 = Sood | first12 = R. | pmid=22207820 | pmc=3234447| doi-access = free| bibcode = 2011ZooK..150..407N}}{{cite web|url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-11/gbif-fd112711.php|title=First database-derived 'data paper' published in journal|date=28 November 2011|work=EurekAlert!}}

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,{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1186/2047-217X-2-14| pmid = 24229463| title = Biodiversity research in the "big data" era: Giga Science and Pensoft work together to publish the most data-rich species description| journal = GigaScience| volume = 2| issue = 1| pages = 14| year = 2013| last1 = Edmunds | first1 = S. C. | last2 = Hunter | first2 = C. I. | last3 = Smith | first3 = V. | last4 = Stoev | first4 = P. | last5 = Penev | first5 = L. | pmc = 4076509 | doi-access = free}} in the Biodiversity Data Journal.{{Cite web | url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131028101110.htm |title = The cyber-centipede: From Linnaeus to big data}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Stoev | first1 = P. | last2 = Komerički | first2 = A. | last3 = Akkari | first3 = N. | last4 = Liu | first4 = S. | last5 = Zhou | first5 = X. | last6 = Weigand | first6 = A. M. | last7 = Hostens | first7 = J. | last8 = Hunter | first8 = C. I. | last9 = Edmunds | first9 = S. C. | last10 = Porco | first10 = D. | last11 = Zapparoli | first11 = M. | last12 = Georgiev | first12 = T. | last13 = Mietchen | first13 = D. | last14 = Roberts | first14 = D. | last15 = Faulwetter | first15 = S. | last16 = Smith | first16 = V. | last17 = Penev | first17 = L. | title = Eupolybothrus cavernicolus Komerički & Stoev sp. N. (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae): The first eukaryotic species description combining transcriptomic, DNA barcoding and micro-CT imaging data | doi = 10.3897/BDJ.1.e1013 | journal = Biodiversity Data Journal | volume = 1 | issue = 1 | pages = e1013 | year = 2013 | pmid = 24723752| pmc =3964625 | doi-access = free }}