Editorial – Swiss Journal of Geosciences migrates to Pensoft Publishers

The Swiss Journal of Geosciences (SJG) is the scientific full Open-Access journal of the Swiss Geological Society. First published in 1888 as “Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae”, it has a long tradition. From the 1920s until 2006, it was published in collaboration with “Birkhäuser”, a scientific publisher based in Basel which was sold to Springer in 1985. In 2006, the SJG merged with the «Schweizerische Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen (SMPM, first published in 1921), after which the journal was renamed to Swiss Journal of Geosciences (see Schmid, 2006; Schmid et al., 2007). From 2007 (Vol. 100) to 2019 the SJG was published with Springer, and since 2020 it has been published as a full Open Access Journal with SpringerOpen.