1994 founder lyubomir penev sergei golovatch country of origin bulgaria headquarters location sofia distribution worldwide publication types scientific journals and books nonfiction topics taxonomy biology biodiversity systematics entomology zoology botany ecology official website www.pensoft.net pensoft publishers also known as pensoft are a publisher of scientific literature based in sofia bulgaria . pensoft was founded in 1994 by two academics lyubomir penev and sergei golovatch . 1 it has published nearly 1000 academic and professional books and currently publishes 14 peer reviewed open access scientific journals 2 including zookeys phytokeys 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 . 3 pensoft were notably one of the first publishers to facilitate the publication of data papers 4 5 in collaboration with the global biodiversity information facility gbif . the first data paper they published came out in 2011 published in the journal zookeys . 6 7 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 8 in the biodiversity data journal . 9 10 contents 1 awards 2 see also 3 references 4 external links awards edit 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 . 11 see also edit see also category pensoft publishers academic journals . open access scholarly publishers association of which pensoft is a member 12 references edit about pensoft . pensoft.net . journals pensoft . pensoft.net . encyclopedia of life . encyclopedia of life . chavan v. ; penev l. 2011 . the data paper a mechanism to incentivize data publishing in biodiversity science . bmc bioinformatics . 12 s2 . doi 10.1186 1471 2105 12 s15 s2 . new incentive for biodiversity data publishing . eurekalert . 1 june 2011 . narwade s. ; kalra m. ; jagdish r. ; varier d. ; satpute s. ; khan n. ; talukdar g. ; mathur v. ; vasudevan k. ; pundir d. s. ; chavan v. ; sood r. 2011 . literature based species occurrence data of birds of northeast india . zookeys . 150 407 . doi 10.3897 zookeys .150.2002 . first database derived data paper published in journal . eurekalert . 28 november 2011 . edmunds s. c. ; hunter c. i. ; smith v. ; stoev p. ; penev l. 2013 . biodiversity research in the big data era giga science and pensoft work together to publish the most data rich species description . gigascience . 2 14 . doi 10.1186 2047 217x 2 14 . http www.sciencedaily.com releases 2013 10 131028101 110.htm stoev p. ; komeri ki a. ; akkari n. ; liu s. ; zhou x. ; weigand a. m. ; hostens j. ; hunter c. i. ; edmunds s. c. ; porco d. ; zapparoli m. ; georgiev t. ; mietchen d. ; roberts d. ; faulwetter s. ; smith v. ; penev l. 2013 . eupolybothrus cavernicolus komeri ki & stoev sp . n. chilopoda lithobiomorpha lithobiidae the first eukaryotic species description combining transcriptomic dna barcoding and micro ct imaging data . biodiversity data journal . 1 e1013 . doi 10.3897 bdj .1 . e1013 . http sparcopen.org our work innovator members . oaspa . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to media from pensoft . official website this article about a publishing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pensoft publishers & oldid 732784352 categories academic publishing companiespublishing companies established in 1994open access publishers1994 establishments in bulgariapublishing company stubshidden categories commons category with local link same as on wikidataall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 3 august 2016 at 06 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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