Pensoft Publishers

Pensoft is an independent, open-access publisher and technology provider, best known for its biodiversity and entomology journals, including ZooKeys, Biodiversity Data Journal, Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Evolutionary Systematics, Alpine Entomology, Journal of Hymenoptera Research, Journal of Orthoptera Research, Nota Lepidopterologica, African Invertebrates and Check List. 

Over the past 30 years, Pensoft has built a reputation for its innovations in the field, after becoming the first scholarly publisher to launch a digital-first journal in zoology and the first to introduce semantic enrichments and hyperlinks within a biodiversity article. 

To date, the company has continuously been working on various tools and workflows designed to facilitate biodiversity data findability, accessibility, discoverability and interoperability. The latest large projects, led by Pensoft include the OpenBiodiv knowledge graph and the Horizon 2020 project BiCIKL.