Pensoft Publishers

Launched for scientists, by scientists!

Pensoft Publishers specialize in academic and professional book and journal publishing, mostly in the field of biodiversity science and natural history. Starting in 1994, Pensoft has become one of the leading academic publishers based in Eastern Europe with more than 600 books and e-books published so far. We largely perform our activities in English, with only a minor fraction of our own publications being in French, German, Russian and Bulgarian.

In 2008, PENSOFT launched its first open-access journals named ZooKeys and BioRisk. The flagship journal of Pensoft, ZooKeys, is currently considered the most technologically advanced journal in biodiversity science and has implemented several innovations in digital publishing and dissemination. ZooKeys was the first journal in the field of biodiversity science to develop and implement an XML-based submission, editorial, publication and dissemination workflow. In 2010, we launched PhytoKeys, an open access journal in plant systematics, phylogeny and biogeography. In December 2010, five society journals moved to Pensoft's open access journal publishing platform.
 

On 1 November 2010, we launched our brand new, innovative, integrated TRIADA platform for publishing, disseminating and marketing of printed books, e-books and open access journals. TRIADA provides a linked environment for content, authors, reviewers, editors and customers through four independent classifications (taxonomic, subject, geographical, and geological time scale) as well through tagging and semantic mark-up. TRIADA uses a one-time registration process which allows users to submit, review or edit manuscripts, to subscribe for E-mail and RSS alerts, and to purchase Pensoft’s products.

With the success of Pensoft, our enthusiasm and activity has the impetus to continue unabated!

We are looking forward to discussing any opportunity to cooperate with you, publishing your manuscripts and printing or distributing your publications!

 

History    Back to top

Pensoft Publishers was conceived during the Christmas/New Year festivities of 1993-94, when we, Penev and Golovatch, with families, were enjoying Bulgarian wine and food at the southern Bulgarian resort Ognyanovo. It was then that the idea came to us, that we should cooperate in a publishing venture - active scientists publishing for other active scientists! It occurred to us that, in the publishing area of environmental/life sciences wherein lay our expertise, there was clearly an empty niche begging occupation.  

This involved bringing, by means of publication, the work of the top flight names and minds of Eastern Europe to the attention of western workers and vice-versa. In short, we decided to emphasize the basic cosmopolitanism of science, the rapidly developing global communication system and our own expertise, at home and abroad in research and publication policies.

In less than 10 years, Pensoft has become the leading Publisher and Bookseller of natural science books in Eastern Europe and Russia. As booksellers and agents, we have expanded our areas of interest from Zoology, Botany, Earth and Environmental Sciences, to encompass also Mathematics, Physics, History, Archaeology, Linguistics, Business, Finance, etc.

Hence, much of the very often, mostly unwillingly, neglected treasure represented by Russian or Bulgarian, or other East European/Balkan literature in various branches of natural, medical and humanitarian sciences, has been opened to the western reader and has become accessible due to our efforts.

A remarkable trend in our development of the last years is the increased number of academic and popular science manuscripts coming to us from all around the world - Australia, USA, Canada, UK, Brazil, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, The Netherlands, New Zealand, and many others.

We are authorized publishers and/or distributors for a wide range of academic institutions in various countries of the world. Yet, we can claim to have become a firmly established, fully international company, encompassing an almost global market, as well. This has become possible also through a joint venture, i.e. NHBS Russo-Asiatic. We have launched together with NHBS Mail Order Bookstore, the world's largest concern and leader in supplying books in various fields of natural history and environmental sciences (www.nhbs.com/russo-asiatic.html), and they have authorized us as exclusive supplier for all regions covered by the former Soviet Union, Eastern European countries and Central Asia. All publishers from the above regions are kindly invited to contact Pensoft, offering their titles to be included in NHBS R-A.

Among the institutions we publish and/or distribute publications for are: Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Natural History Museum, London, Museum National de Histoire Naturelle, Paris; Landcare Research, New Zealand, Institute for African Studies, Tervuren, Belgium; Severtsov Institute for Ecology and Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Moscow, Zoological Institute (RAS, St. Petersburg; Komarov Botanical Institute (RAS), St. Petersburg; Zoological Museum of the Moscow University, Fersman Mineralogical Museum, Institute of Zoology of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Kiev; Institute of Zoology of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, Tbilisi; Institute of Zoology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia; National Natural History Museum, Sofia and many others.

While we continue to offer numerous out-of-print titles, mainly Russian and Bulgarian, to the western reader, we are now increasingly involved in the reverse flow of western publications to Eastern Europe. Thus we are fulfilling our mission to act as a bridge between East and West!
 

Pensoft Staff     Back to top


Managing Director and Founder

  Dr. Lyubomir Penev
  Pensoft Publishers
  Geo Milev Street 13a
  1111 Sofia, Bulgaria
  Tel. +359-2-8704281
  Fax: +359-2-8704282
  E-mail: info@pensoft.net
 





Founder

  Prof. Dr. Sergei Golovatch
  Pensoft Publishers
  A.N. Severtsov's Institute of Ecology and Evolution
  Leninksy prospect 33
  Moscow 071
  Russian Federation
  E-mail: sgolovatch@yandex.ru





Communication Officer

 Dr. Daniel Mietchen
 Pensoft Publishers
 Geo Milev Street 13a
 1111 Sofia, Bulgaria
 Tel. +359-2-8704281
 Fax: +359-2-8704282
 E-mail: dissemination@pensoft.net






Preprint Department

  Teodor Georgiev
  Pensoft Publishers
  Geo Milev Street 13a
  1111 Sofia, Bulgaria
  Tel. +359-2-8704281
  Fax: +359-2-8704282
  E-mail: preprint@pensoft.net
   

 



Art Director

  Zheko Aleksiev
  Pensoft Publishers
  Geo Milev Street 13a
  1111 Sofia, Bulgaria
  Tel. +359-2-8704281
  Fax: +359-2-8704282
  E-mail: preprint@pensoft.net


 


 

  Ivailo Stoyanov
  Pensoft Publishers
  Geo Milev Street 13a
  1111 Sofia, Bulgaria
  Tel. +359-2-8704281
  Fax: +359-2-8704282
  E-mail:

Projects Department

  Dr. Pavel Stoev
  Pensoft Publishers
  Geo Milev Street 13a
  1111 Sofia, Bulgaria
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  Fax: +359-2-8704282
  E-mail:

Orders Department

  Desislava Grancharova
  Pensoft Publishers
  Geo Milev Street 13a
  1111 Sofia, Bulgaria
  Tel. +359-2-8704281
  Fax: +359-2-8704282
  E-mail: orders@pensoft.net






Office Manager

  Elisaveta Tasseva
  Pensoft Publishiers
  13a Geo Milev Street
  1111 Sofia, Bulgaria
  Tel +359-2-8704281
  Fax +359-2-8704282
  E-mail: office@pensoft.net
 

 



 

Preprint Department

  Angel Slavchev
  Pensoft Publishers
  13a Geo Milev Street
  1111 Sofia, Bulgaria
  Tel +359-2-8704281
  Fax +359-2-8704282
  E-mail: layout@pensoft.net
 

 


 

Web Marketing and Dissemination

  Veselin Kostadinov
  Pensoft Publishers
  13a Geo Milev Street
  1111 Sofia, Bulgaria
  Tel +359-2-8704281
  Fax +359-2-8704282
  E-mail: marketing@pensoft.net