The Ministry of Education and Science ( bg, Министерство на образованието и науката, ''Ministerstvo na obrazovanieto i naukata'') of

Bulgaria Bulgaria (; bg, България, Bǎlgariya), officially the Republic of Bulgaria,, ) is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern flank of the Balkans, and is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and North Macedo ...

is the ministry charged with regulating and promoting the

education Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty ...

al and

scientific Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...

work in the country. It was founded as the Ministry of Popular Enlightenment in 1879 and existed under this name until 1947, after which it changed its name numerous times. In 2009 the name changed from "Ministry of Education and Science" to "Ministry of Education, Youth and Science". In 2013, this change was reversed.

Az-Buki

The national publishing house "Az-buki" under the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science currently publishes the weekly newspaper "Az-buki" ("Аз-буки" in Bulgarian) and 9 scientific journals. Its publications are intended for students, tutors, Bulgarian cultural centers and communities in and outside Bulgaria. Nadia Kantareva-Baruh is the director of the publishing house.

Newspaper

The first edition of the national newspaper "Az-buki" came out on April 10, 1991. The weekly publication continues the tradition of a newspaper, which started to come out in 1896. "Az-buki" is distributed by means of subscription and each individual copy is read by an average of 22,8 people.

Publications

The list below includes nine scientific journals, which are indexed, referred, listed and abstracted in international databases, such as Web of Science,

Philosopher's Index The Philosopher's Information Center is a nonprofit, educational organization. It was founded in 1967 by Richard H. Lineback, who continues to serve as president. The center is publisher of ''The Philosopher's Index'', a comprehensive bibliograph ...

Scopus Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles (22,794 active titles and 13,583 inactive titles) from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top- ...

ERIH PLUS ERIH PLUS (originally called the European Reference Index for the Humanities or ERIH) is an index containing bibliographic information on academic journals in the humanities and social sciences (SSH). The index includes all journals that meet the ...

Google Scholar Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Released in beta in November 2004, the Google Scholar index includes ...

and

Russian Science Citation Index Russian Science Citation Index (Russian: Российский индекс научного цитирования (РИНЦ)) is a bibliographic database of scientific publications in Russian. It holds around 13 million publications by Russian au ...

. * ''Bulgarian Language and Literature (Bulgarski Ezik i Literatura)'' listed through EBSCOhost Research Databases. Bulgarian Language and Literature Journal has been included in Web of Science (Q4 of JCI), the European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (ERIH PLUS) and RSCI. * ''History (Istoriya)'', indexed, referred, listed and abstracted in Web of Science (Q4 of JCI), ERIH PLUS, RSCI, CEEOL. * ''Pedagogy (Pedagogika)'' – in Web of Science (Q4 of JCI); RSCI; CEEOL; ERIH PLUS * ''Mathematics and Informatics'' – in Web of Science (Q4 of JCI), ERIH PLUS, RSCI, CEEOL. * ''Natural Science and Advanced Technology Education'' – in Web of Science (Q4 of JCI), ERIH PLUS, RSCI, CEEOL, SCOPUS. *''Vocational Education'' – ERIH PLUS, RSCI, CEEOL, EBSCOHost, Google Scholar. * ''Philosophy, (Filosofiya)'' – in Web of Science (Q4 of JCI), Philosopher's Index, ERIH PLUS, RSCI, CEEOL. * ''Foreign Language Teaching, (Chuzhdoezikovo Obuchenie)'' – in Web of Science (Q3 of JCI), ERIH PLUS, RSCI, CEEOL. * ''Strategies for Policy in Science and Education (Strategii na Obrazovatelnata i Nauchnata Politika)'' – in Web of Science (Q4 of JCI), Philosopher's Index, ERIH PLUS, RSCI, CEEOL.

References

External links

Official website
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