In October 2009, the “The World Heritage of Bulgaria” encyclopedia was published by the Professor Marin Drinov Publishing House of BAS. The encyclopedia presents the Bulgarian sites included in UNESCO’s world cultural and natural heritage list. The publication is bilingual – in Bulgarian and in English, and richly illustrated.
The Bulgarian Encyclopedia Scientific Information Centre participated in a work meeting of the European national encyclopedias (held in Barcelona on February 4-5th, 2009) concerning a project to create a pan-European online encyclopedia, or “Europedia”. The encyclopedias of Spain, Norway, Italy, Sweden, Croatia and Bulgaria were presented at the meeting. Two consultants at the European Union, …
At the beginning of 2010, the pre-press production of the multi-volume national encyclopedia “Bulgaria”, whose Leading Editor is Academician Vasil Gyuzelev, started. The edition is structured in two parts – thematic and alphabetical. The thematic part includes large overview articles that examine the natural environment (relief and surface, geology, climate, waters, soils, flora and fauna, …
The new encyclopedia is a joint publication of Bulgarian Encyclopaedia Scientific Information Centre at the BAS and Trud Publishing House. So far, there is no book with similar content in Bulgaria. For the first time, the subject of research are the characters, not the works and the entire literary canon of writers. The compilers’ ambition …
The “Characters of World Literature” encyclopedia is published Read more »
On May 15, 2008, on the occasion of the Day of Bulgarian education, culture and the creation of the Slavonic alphabet (May 24), pupils from Private Primary school “Sv. Kiril i Metodiy” visited Bulgarian Encyclopaedia Scientific Information Centre. Snezhana Nikolova’s talk with the pupils Elena Blazheva shows the digital editions to the schoolchildren The group …
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In December 2006, the trilingual “Nature” encyclopedia was published.
In April 2006, the second digital edition of the Bulgarian A-Z Encyclopedia was included in a business subscribers’ project of the largest Bulgarian mobile operator M-Tel. 30,000 is the circulation printed by order of Mobiltel. The telecom operator will include the encyclopedia in a gift package for its business customers. Hristo Popov, a B2B Marketing Manager …
On December 1, 2005, in the Great Hall of the BAS, an Anniversary Session was held to mark the 50th anniversary of Bulgarian Encyclopaedia Scientific Information Centre’s establishment.
In February 2006, the Specialised Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants in Bulgaria was published.
On June 1, 2005, the encyclopedic portal www.znam.bg was launched. With it, an online edition of the “BULGARIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA A-Z” became available. Licences to use the online edition and Bulgarian Encyclopedia A-Z’s second electronic edition are provided to all Bulgarian schools by the Ministry of Transport and Communications and the Ministry of Education and Science.
In May 2005, the second edition of the digital “BULGARIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA AZ” was updated. The update can be downloaded from www.encyclopedia.bg.
In July 2005, the third updated edition of the “BULGARIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA A-Z” in print was published.
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