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ARPHA and the European Association of Science Editors expand their partnership to benefit journal editors

Pensoft Publishers is pleased to announce a deepening of ARPHA’s collaboration with the European Association of Science Editors (EASE), bringing new benefits to the editors of all journals published on the ARPHA Platform.

A partnership built on shared goals

The collaboration began in 2020, when ARPHA took over the hosting and publishing of EASE’s official journal, European Science Editing (ESE), and moved it to an online open-access diamond open access model, free for both authors and readers. The move marked a turning point: ESE evolved from what was essentially a newsletter for Association members into a fully fledged, peer-reviewed academic journal.

Since then, ESE has been indexed in Scopus and Web of Science and has received its first Impact Factor – 1.6, with the journal positioned in the 2nd quartile of the Library and Information Science category. Its growth shows what a strong publishing partnership can achieve for a society journal.

What the agreement means for ARPHA journals

Building on this success, ARPHA and EASE have agreed to extend the benefits of the partnership to the wider ARPHA community. The agreement is already in effect, and each journal hosted on ARPHA can nominate one representative, typically the editor-in-chief or another designated editor, to take advantage of the following:

  • A full EASE membership subscription, including access to the Association’s resources, regular webinars, the member newsletter, and discounted event rates; it also connects editors to a community of editing and publishing professionals across Europe and beyond
  • A free place in the EASE Editorial School for Journal Editors; EASE’s flagship training programme is a multi-part workshop that covers the editorial and peer-review workflow, and it normally carries a fee, though each ARPHA journal is entitled to one free place

Sharing knowledge with the wider community

In the spirit of open science and of supporting journals at every stage of development, ARPHA and EASE are also planning joint activities open to the whole scholarly publishing community. Pensoft is additionally looking forward to taking part in the 19th EASE Conference in Brighton, UK, in June 2027.

“We are delighted to deepen our relationship with Pensoft Publishers and are looking forward to welcoming ARPHA editors into our membership and to offer them a free place in our Editorial School for Journal Editors. Our partnership is important to us and I am sure it will flourish in the coming years as our journal grows its impact and influence.”

  • – Mary Hodgson, EASE Secretary

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About ARPHA
ARPHA is a full-featured open access publishing platform for journals, books and data, with managed hosting services. Several other services (website design and setup, production, semantic markup, distribution, archiving, indexing, promotion, journal management and more) are available on choice. More at https://arphahub.com.

About EASE
The European Association of Science Editors is a community of scholarly editors and communication professionals, dedicated to building trust in research by raising editorial quality. Through expert resources, practical guidance, and a strong international network, EASE drives excellence in every stage of the editorial process. More at ease.org.uk.

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Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) journal joins the Publish, Review, Curate Alliance as a founding member

The open-science journal Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO), published by the open-access scholarly publisher and technology innovator Pensoft Publishers, became one the founding members of the new Publish, Review, Curate (PRC) Alliance, a coalition of more than 40 funders, universities, publishers, platforms and infrastructure providers aiming to promote innovation around scholarly publishing workflows.

RIO has been operating a very similar model and will have transitioned to a full PRC model by mid-2027. Additional journals from Pensoft’s portfolio are expected to follow suit shortly thereafter.

About the PRC Alliance

The PRC Alliance promotes a researcher-centred model for scholarly publishing in which research outputs are first published and then subjected to open peer review and editorial curation. This decoupled approach makes findings available more quickly, while giving readers greater insight into the comprehensiveness of the work.

The Alliance is a joint initiative of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and ASAPbio, and it will be hosted by COAR as part of the COAR Notify Project in its first year of operation. The list of founding members includes high-profile organisations and Open Science innovators, such as the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), Gates Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), Europe PMC, Peer Community In (PCI) and Review Commons.

Why RIO?

Since its launch in 2015, RIO has been catalysing culture change in research communication by publishing early, intermediate and final scientific outputs from across the entire research cycle. With RIO, the entire research process, including work that would normally be lost, receives efficient and timely visibility, discoverability and recognition, as well as permanent availability, accessibility and citability.

Amongst the journal’s publication types are Research Ideas, Grant Proposals, Data/Software Management Plans, Workshop/Project Reports and many others. Aiming to bring together the whole research cycle, the journal also welcomes outputs from later stages, such as Research Articles, Review Articles, Software Descriptions and Policy Briefs.

Of these, some publication types are exempt from mandatory review evaluation and proceed to publication straight away following an in-house integrity check. In all cases, RIO publications are open to post-publication review, where all evaluations would be made public, signed, and provided with DOIs.

RIO Journal 5 years on: over 300 published outcomes from all around the research cycle

Since its inception, RIO has been continuously implementing various open-science innovations and workflows to enhance transparency and FAIRness in scholarly communication. These include SDG mapping for each publication; permanently linked updated versions of previously published content; open-science project-branded collections designed to bring together all outputs coming from a specific scientific project regardless of their publication source; and a user-friendly nanopublication workflow meant to further improve the reusability and granularity of published outputs in a machine-comprehensible manner for our AI-powered age.

RIO shifts gears to serve as a project-driven knowledge hub

Furthermore, as part of Pensoft’s academic portfolio, RIO runs on a technologically advanced platform optimised for accessibility, discoverability, machine-readability and reusability. In its latest installment, Pensoft’s publishing environment features a wide array of functionalities and workflows designed to ensure available research outputs are AI-FAIR, matching the needs and expectations in an AI-driven world.

The RIO journal has long stood out as a pioneer in expanding the concepts of scholarly publication, peer review and scientific literature curation so that the community benefits from more timely and efficient access, use and recognition of research effort. As such, it makes perfect sense for RIO to move to a full PRC model and join the PRC Alliance in this new effort to improve openness of research.

Pensoft’s vision

Through its participation in the Alliance, Pensoft hopes that the PRC model can support and encourage research shared at a more granular level, while also providing greater visibility and recognition for valuable scientific work that would not typically see the light of day. This could include documents for individual steps of the research cycle, as well as nanopublication-style atomic units of knowledge. Pensoft also looks forward to working with fellow members to coordinate efforts and to support innovative PRC initiatives.

“As a collaborative and formal community of experts in the field, the Alliance provides an unprecedented opportunity to fuel wider and responsible adoption of the PRC model, which has become a necessity in academia due to current challenges in scholarly communication. This is why it’s an honour to be amongst the founding members of this fantastic community.”

  • – Pensoft’s CEO and founder Prof. Dr. Lyubomir Penev

“RIO is about publishing the research process in a granular fashion, about inviting criticism and collaboration throughout, and about communicating the process and its outcomes efficiently and sustainably to researchers, the wider public and to machines. With the PRC Alliance, we have found partners whose approach to gardening the research landscape is similar, and we’re looking forward to fruitful exchanges with them and their respective communities.”

  • – Daniel Mietchen, Editor-in-Chief of Research Ideas and Outcomes

About Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO)

Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) is an open science journal that publishes outputs from any stages of the research cycle on a single collaborative platform, with an open and public peer-review process. It is part of the academic portfolio of Pensoft Publishers.

About Pensoft Publishers

Pensoft is an independent, open-access scholarly publisher and technology provider, best known for its 30+ biodiversity journals, including ZooKeys, Biodiversity Data Journal, PhytoKeys, MycoKeys, One Ecosystem, and Metabarcoding and Metagenomics. Ever since becoming the first to introduce semantic enrichments and hyperlinks within a scientific article in the field of biodiversity in 2010, Pensoft has been working on various tools and workflows designed to facilitate data findability, accessibility, discoverability and interoperability.

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For more information on the Publish, Review, Curate Alliance and its full list of founding members, visit https://publish-review-curate.org.

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ResearchGate and Pensoft Publishers announce expansion of their Journal Home partnership

Berlin (Germany) and Sofia (Bulgaria), 10th February, 2026 – ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Pensoft Publishers, an independent open access publisher and provider of high-quality scholarly publishing services, today announced an expansion of their Journal Home partnership. Building on an earlier collaboration announced in 2023, the list now expands to 40 journals, covering the majority of Pensoft’s and partners’ journals using the publisher’s ARPHA Publishing Platform. 

Amongst the journals now enjoying increased visibility across the ResearchGate’s community of 25+ million researcher members are well-renowned scholarly titles affiliated with the Natural History Museum in Berlin, Swiss Academy of Sciences, International Association for Vegetation Science and The International Biogeography Society, as well as recently launched Pensoft journals, such as Individual-based Ecology, Natural History Collections and Museomics, and Food and Ecological Systems Modelling Journal.

With most of Pensoft’s eligible partner journals choosing to participate, the expansion reflects strong demand for greater exposure and engagement opportunities, particularly among smaller and developing journals in niche research areas. Through Journal Home, partner publishers can reach more relevant audiences, improve discoverability, and connect more effectively with researchers worldwide.

Participating Pensoft journals will also benefit from:

  • Increased usage and readership, with full-text open access journal content seamlessly surfaced to highly relevant researcher communities across the ResearchGate platform.
  • Stronger engagement from new and returning authors, connecting partner journals, including specialist and emerging titles, with targeted researchers and potential authors throughout the research lifecycle.
  • Dedicated Journal Profiles and prominent placement of Pensoft journals to enhance visibility and branding, boosting recognition of partner journals with researcher communities around the world.
  • Improved author experience, with the automatic addition of published articles to author profiles, clearer insight into reader engagement, and greater opportunities for meaningful collaboration.

“Journal Home allows us to provide our partner journals with improved visibility and stronger connections with global researcher communities. Many of these journals serve highly specialised fields, and Journal Home helps make sure their articles reach the right researchers, who will benefit from them most.”

– Lyubomir Penev, CEO and founder of Pensoft Publishers

“We’re pleased to expand our Journal Home partnership with Pensoft to support an increasing number of partner journals. By bringing these journals onto the platform, smaller and emerging titles can expand their reach, attract high-quality submissions, and connect with the most relevant researcher communities at key moments in their research journey.”

– Robyn Mugridge, Head of Partnership Development at ResearchGate

For more information about Journal Home, please visit www.researchgate.net/journal-home.

For more information about ResearchGate, please visit www.researchgate.net.

For more information about Pensoft Publishers, please visit www.pensoft.net.

About ResearchGate

ResearchGate is the professional network for researchers. Over 25 million researchers use researchgate.net to share and discover research, build their networks, and advance their careers. Based in Berlin, ResearchGate was founded in 2008. Its mission is to connect the world of science and make research open to all.

About Pensoft Publishers

Pensoft is an independent, open-access scholarly publisher and technology provider, best known for its 40+ biodiversity journals, including ZooKeys, Biodiversity Data Journal, PhytoKeys, MycoKeys, One Ecosystem, and Metabarcoding and Metagenomics. Ever since becoming the first to introduce semantic enrichments and hyperlinks within a scientific article in the field of biodiversity in 2010, Pensoft has been working on various tools and workflows designed to facilitate data findability, accessibility, discoverability and interoperability.

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Pensoft and ARPHA integrate with Prophy to speed up reviewer discovery across 90+ scholarly journals

In a new partnership between open-access scholarly publisher Pensoft and the AI-driven reviewer discovery system provider Prophy, the editorial teams at all journals hosted on the publisher’s ARPHA Platform receive access to a broader and more diverse global pool of researchers. 

The integration connects ARPHA’s editorial and peer review workflows with Prophy’s continuously updated database of millions of active, qualified researchers. As a result, editorial teams across more than 90 open-access peer-reviewed journals powered by ARPHA can now opt to enjoy data-driven reviewer recommendations based on structured analysis of researcher expertise and publication history, with matches based on each manuscript’s topic, field, and research focus.

This development responds to a growing challenge in scholarly publishing. As submission volumes rise, the pressure on a relatively small pool of frequently invited reviewers increases, which eventually leads to delays and reviewer fatigue. By expanding the pool of potential experts and improving how they are identified with the help of semantic analysis, the integration supports a more sustainable and balanced approach to peer review.

“By working with Prophy, we’re helping editors discover expertise that might otherwise be overlooked, opening the door to a more inclusive, well-distributed, and resilient peer review ecosystem. This is about using technology not to replace human judgment, but to support it in a smarter and more responsible way.”

– Prof. Dr. Lyubomir Penev, founder and CEO of Pensoft and ARPHA

“We’re excited to work with Pensoft and ARPHA to bring smarter reviewer discovery to their editorial teams. Peer review should be efficient and fair, and this partnership helps with both. Editors can find the right expertise faster, which means less time searching and fewer delays. This integration helps editorial teams manage growing submission volumes without burning out their reviewer networks.”

– Oleg Ruchayskiy, CEO of Prophy

To further support editorial teams and client journals’ owners, Pensoft and ARPHA are offering the Prophy integration free of charge to all journals on the platform until the end of 2026. 

The partnership reflects Pensoft and ARPHA’s continued focus on equipping journals with practical, forward-looking tools that strengthen peer review, support editors, and help ensure the long-term sustainability of scholarly publishing.


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Pensoft and the University of Zurich sign strategic OA Agreement to support Swiss research

Pensoft and the University of Zurich have signed an Open Access agreement that covers 65 peer-reviewed scholarly journals published by Pensoft or using the open-access publisher’s signature platform ARPHA. The agreement allows researchers at the University of Zurich and four affiliated hospitals to publish without individual Article Processing Charges (APCs). This partnership supports open science, making research freely available and adhering to the FAIR principles.

Pensoft and the University of Zurich have signed a comprehensive Open Access (OA) agreement, starting a partnership that enables researchers at participating institutions to publish their findings in Pensoft’s peer-reviewed journals without incurring individual Article Processing Charges (APCs).

The agreement encompasses five key research and medical bodies, namely the University of Zurich, the University Hospital of Zurich, Balgrist University Hospital, University Children’s Hospital Zurich, and the Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik.

Researchers from these institutions can now publish without worrying about APCs in 65 peer-reviewed journals published by Pensoft or hosted on its advanced ARPHA platform, including flagship titles such as ZooKeys, PhytoKeys, Biodiversity Data Journal, NeoBiota, and IMA Fungus.

Under this new framework, publishing costs for corresponding authors affiliated with the respective institutions are 100% covered by a centralised institutional deposit secured by the University of Zurich. By removing financial barriers, the agreement encourages scientists to disseminate their work to both the academic community and the wider public, making research immediately and freely available upon publication.

This initiative ensures that research is shared under open licences in strict accordance with the FAIR principles—making data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable.

“We are excited to start this partnership with the University of Zurich and sign an agreement that reflects our strong commitment to inclusive and equitable open science. By supporting researcher-driven publishing, we continue to foster a sustainable environment for high-impact scientific communication.”

– Prof. Lyubomir Penev, CEO of Pensoft.

“We are pleased to extend our portfolio of gold open access journals, in which our researchers can publish their findings without paying individual APCs. We thereby strengthen our commitment to open research information.”

– University Library Zurich

Are you affiliated with a research institution operating with OA agreements? Is your institution interested in helping resident researchers navigate the complex processes underpinning academic publishing and knowledge sharing? Reach out to <publishing@pensoft.net> to discuss a potential collaboration.

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Pensoft and Bibsam Consortium announce new OA agreement to advance scholarly publishing in Sweden

Pensoft and the Bibsam Consortium have signed an Open Access agreement that covers 65 peer-reviewed scholarly journals published by Pensoft or using the open-access publisher’s signature platform ARPHA. The agreement covers almost 100 institutions, including Karolinska Institutet, Lund University, Uppsala University, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Now, researchers affiliated with institutions in the Bibsam Consortium will benefit from a streamlined publication process where they will not be charged with any publication fees (APCs).

Pensoft and the Bibsam Consortium, operated by the National Library of Sweden, are pleased to announce the signing of a comprehensive Open Access (OA) agreement, marking a significant step in the transition towards a more transparent and open scholarly publishing landscape in Sweden.

Thanks to this move, researchers at participating institutions will be able to publish their findings in 65 journals published by Pensoft or using its advanced publishing platform ARPHA, including flagship titles such as ZooKeys, PhytoKeys, Biodiversity Data Journal, NeoBiota and IMA Fungus, without incurring individual article processing charges (APCs). 

The agreement encompasses 97 research bodies, including Karolinska Institutet, Lund University, Uppsala University, and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

All authors affiliated with participating institutions can benefit from this agreement, with publishing costs 100% covered by an institutional deposit secured by the National Library of Sweden.

Unlike subscription-based systems, an OA framework ensures that scientific findings are immediately and freely available to the global community, supporting the global shift toward accessible science and adhering to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable). 

OA agreements like this one reduce the financial burden on scientists and encourage them to share their work with both academia and the wider public, ultimately lowering barriers to sharing knowledge in a time when scientific input is key to resolving global challenges.

“We are excited to start this partnership with Bisbam and sign an agreement that reflects our strong commitment to open science. By supporting researcher-driven publishing, we continue to foster a sustainable environment for high-impact scientific communication.”

– Prof. Lyubomir Penev, CEO of Pensoft

“We are delighted to announce the addition of Pensoft Publishers to our portfolio of nationally funded agreements for 2026. This represents an important step towards achieving full open access to scientific publications in Sweden.”

– Niklas Willén, License Manager at Bibsam Consortium and National Library of Sweden

Are you affiliated with a research institution operating with OA agreements? Is your institution interested in helping resident researchers navigate the complex processes underpinning academic publishing and knowledge sharing? Reach out to <publishing@pensoft.net> to discuss a potential collaboration.

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Review of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics joins the ARPHA Platform

Review of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics (RCPP), an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to clinical and applied pharmacology, medicine, and therapeutics, has moved to Pensoft’s ARPHA publishing platform, in an effort to streamline its editorial workflow and enhance the visibility of its outputs.

Published by PHARMAKON-Press under ARPHA’s white-label model, its primary mission is to promote optimum drug therapy and serve as a platform for relevant research. Aiming to provide essential knowledge on drugs based on updated developments and contemporary perceptions, the journal maintains a wide scope of article types accepted for publication.

RCPP was established in Athens, Greece, in 1987 by Prof. Stavros T. Plessas MD and Dr Charalampos T. Plessas. 

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“Four decades later, the journal continues to publish high-quality, peer-reviewed articles and hosts the proceedings of international conferences serving the scientific community in both Greece and abroad,” its team says on its webpage.

In September 2023, RCPP transitioned to an open-access model, with all its published content since then available on its new website provided by ARPHA. It is led by Editor-in-Chief Dr. Eleni Plessa.

By joining ARPHA, the journal can benefit from the platform’s one-stop, end-to-end publishing solution, high-level integrations, semantical enhancements, and advanced metrics.

“Our move to the ARPHA Platform marks a decisive step in the journal’s evolution, strengthening our commitment to transparency, innovation, and global visibility while modernising our publishing practices and expanding our international reach. Through advanced workflows, semantic enrichment, and robust metrics, this collaboration enables Review of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics to attract high-quality submissions, meet international standards, and ensure long-term visibility and competitiveness in open-access scientific publishing.” said the Editor-in-Chief,  Dr. Eleni Plessa.

“We’re very excited to partner with Review of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics, adding one more title to our growing portfolio of open-access journals in medical sciences, and look forward to supporting the journal in this next chapter,” said Prof. Lyubomir Penev, CEO of ARPHA.

About ARPHA: 

ARPHA is the first end-to-end, narrative- and data-integrated publishing solution that supports the full life cycle of a manuscript, from authoring to reviewing, publishing and dissemination. ARPHA provides accomplished and streamlined production workflows that can be customised according to the journal’s needs. The platform enables a variety of publishing models through a number of options for branding, production and revenue models to choose from.

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Pensoft and ARPHA join forces with Reviewer Credits to enhance peer review transparency and recognition

Pensoft, the independent academic publishing company known for its innovative open access publishing tools, workflows, and technologically advanced platforms for text and data publishing, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Reviewer Credits, the Berlin-based network for peer reviewers and publishing integrity hub. The collaboration also encompasses ARPHA, Pensoft’s publishing platform that supports the entire scholarly publishing workflow with cutting-edge semantic tagging, collaborative manuscript authoring, and transparent peer review.

Reviewers who create a free account on Reviewer Credits will automatically record their peer review contributions, which will be certified via the platform and earn rewards and recognition within the scholarly community. While a reviewer can register any of their peer reviews on the platform, reviews for journals partnering with Reviewer Credits earn additional redeemable credits.

“Our partnership with Reviewer Credits is important for recognising and rewarding the contribution of our reviewers,” said Prof. Lyubomir Penev, Founder and CEO of Pensoft. “Good reviewers are essential for ensuring the publication of quality science. In the past, their role has been overlooked, and collaborations like this are important steps towards changing that.”

“This partnership between Reviewer Credits and Pensoft/ARPHA represents a significant step forward in recognizing and rewarding the vital contributions of peer reviewers, enhancing transparency, and strengthening the integrity of scholarly publishing for the entire research community” said Sven Fund, Managing Director at Reviewer Credits, “This collaborative approach not only incentivizes reviewers by formally documenting their efforts and providing tangible recognition, but also democratizes participation in peer review—empowering researchers at every career stage to contribute meaningfully, build networks, and advance standards of transparency and accountability within the global research community.”

About Reviewer Credits: Reviewer Credits is the global network that recognizes and rewards the vital contribution peer reviewers make to scientific publishing. The Berlin-based sciencetech company collaborates with more than 220 international publishing houses and around 1,800 academic journals and is home to over 43,000 reviewers. Around 300,000 reviews have already been uploaded to the Reviewer Credits platform. For more details, see www.reviewercredits.com.

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Annals of the Natural History Museum Vienna begins publishing with Pensoft

The Annals of the Natural History Museum Vienna (ANHMW) has launched its first issue since transitioning to the ARPHA scholarly publishing platform and entering a co-publishing partnership with Pensoft. 

The open-access, peer-reviewed journal publishes original research relating to the museum’s scientific collections and ongoing projects, covering anthropology, biosciences, earth sciences, genetics, prehistory, and the museum’s history.

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Established in 1836 as the Annalen des Wiener Museums der Naturgeschichte, the journal is one of Europe’s oldest periodicals, maintaining a longstanding tradition of scientific publishing. Over the years, the journal experienced various iterations and name changes and, in 1980, it was divided into three series. Now, following the transition to Pensoft, these series have been reunited under one title.

ANHMW operates as a diamond open-access journal, allowing authors to publish freely thanks to the generous support of the Natural History Museum Vienna. Co-published by Pensoft and the museum, all articles are available in multiple formats including HTML, JATS XML, and high-resolution full-colour PDF. 

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Content is enhanced semantically and converted into Linked Open Data and OpenBiodiv Biodiversity knowledge graphs. To meet nomenclatural standards for electronic publication, all articles will be indexed and archived in repositories such as Zenodo, CLOCKSS, Portico, and more, with nomenclatural acts registered in ZooBank.

The joint Editors-in-Chief, Dr Anna Weinmann, Mag Andrea Krapf, and Dr Nesrine Akkari, expressed enthusiasm for the journal’s digital transformation. Andrea Krapf commented, “I am very proud to accompany such a venerable and traditional journal as the Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien on its journey into the digital future under its new English title, Annals of the Natural History Museum Vienna. In Pensoft, we have found a reliable partner to publish the journal under a modern diamond open access model, making it thus more attractive to the scientific community and the general public.”

Dr Nesrine Akkari said, “Since joining the editorial team of the Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien as the editor-in-chief of Serie B in 2018, I have witnessed continuous attempts to modernise the journal’s editorial workflow and publications. The idea of moving to Pensoft as a co-publisher was discussed and I am delighted that our managers support it.

“As both a scientist and an editor, I recognise the importance of the Annals as part of the museum’s legacy, while I also recognize the many advantages of the collaboration with Pensoft. I believe that this change marks a new era for the Annals and that, by combining modernity and tradition, our journal will continue to thrive.”

Prof Lyubomir Penev, CEO and Founder of Pensoft, welcomed the partnership: “We are thrilled to welcome the Annals of the Natural History Museum Vienna into the Pensoft family of next-generation scientific journals. ARPHA’s publishing solutions will allow the journal to modernise and find new audiences.”

The first issue is now available on the ANHMW’s new website, including an editorial by the Editors-in-Chief reflecting on the past and future of this historic journal.

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Phytologia Balcanica joins the ARPHA publishing platform

Phytologia Balcanica, an international journal in plant sciences, has integrated with the ARPHA publishing platform, in a move aiming to strengthen the journal’s commitment to advancing phytological research and expanding its global reach.

Phytologia Balcanica publishes original scientific articles and communications across various plant science fields. Its scope encompasses the taxonomy or biosystematics of plants and fungi, chorology, floristics, evolution, phytocoenology, palaeobotany, palynology, plant anatomy, embryology, ecology, monitoring, and the biology and chemistry of medicinal and aromatic plants.

A journal cover titled "Phytologia Balcanica" next to a branch with green leaves and bright red berries in a blurred background.

ARPHA, a platform developed by Pensoft, offers an end-to-end science publishing solution that makes it easy for both humans and machines to access, cite, and reuse research, meaning Phytologia Balcanica will get access to improved publishing infrastructure and benefit from increased visibility and discoverability for its published research. 

The journal is published by the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (IBER) at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Thanks to IBER’s support, Phytologia Balcanica operates on a white-label Diamond Open Access model, ensuring that all articles are published free of charge. The journal’s editorial team is led by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dimiter Ivanov, who is affiliated with the IBER.

“Phytologia Balcanica’s integration onto the ARPHA platform will streamline the publishing process for authors and broaden the dissemination of critical research in plant sciences to a global audience. We hope this partnership will strengthen the journal’s role in contributing to biodiversity and ecosystem research worldwide,” said Prof. Lyubomir Penev, CEO and founder of ARPHA.

The first Phytologia Balcanica articles published after the move to ARPHA are already available on its new website.