Schweizerbart and its affiliate company Gebr. Borntraeger publish and distribute printed and electronic scholarly journals, book series and monographs.

We are privately owned and operated by scientists, independent we do provide all services related to publishing and marketing scientific content worldwide in print and electronic form.

Schweizerbart Science Publishers was founded by Emanuel Schweizerbart in 1826 as a publishing house with an emphasis on historical works.

Shortly after its foundation, the program changed and Schweizerbart concentrated on publishing scholarly journals and books in the sciences, mainly Earth and environmental sciences, aquatic ecology, anthropology, medicine, zoology.

Gebr. Borntraeger publishers were founded in 1790. It has an active program in the Earth and environmental sciences.