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{{Short description|Subsidiary of RELX Group}}
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'''Bepress''' is a commercial, academic software firm owned by [[Company:RELX Group|RELX Group]]. It began in 1999 as the  Berkeley Electronic Press, co-founded by academics Robert Cooter and Aaron Edlin. It makes products and services to support scholarly communication, including [[Institutional repository|institutional repository]] and publishing software. Until September 2011 it also published [[Electronic journal|electronic journal]]s.

In August 2017, Bepress was acquired by RELX Group for an undisclosed amount, reported to be around £100 million ($129.3 million).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.zdnet.com/article/elsevier-acquires-bepress-in-bid-to-boost-its-academic-publishing-and-analytics-services/|title=Elsevier acquires bepress in bid to boost its academic publishing and analytics services {{!}} ZDNet|last=Foremski|first=Tom|work=ZDNet|access-date=2017-08-03|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/c6f6c594-7787-11e7-a3e8-60495fe6ca71|title=Relx buys Bepress to boost academic publishing|website=Financial Times|date=2 August 2017 |access-date=2017-08-03}}</ref> The acquisition drew criticism from the library community.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Breeding|first=Marshall|date=2017-09-01|title=Elsevier Acquires Bepress|url=https://librarytechnology.org/document/23319|journal=Smart Libraries Newsletter|language=en|volume=37|issue=9|pages=1–5}}</ref>

== Services ==

=== Open access publication tools ===
* ''Digital Commons'' is an institutional repository and publishing software suite that allows institutions to showcase and preserve their scholarly output.
* ''Selected Works'' enables individuals to create their own scholarly research pages.

=== Submission and editorial management tools ===
* ''ExpressO'' aids legal scholars in submitting their research to the law reviews of their choice.
* ''LawKit'' is a tool designed specifically for law review editors to track submissions, communicate with authors, and manage expedite requests.
* ''Edikit'' helps journal editors and conference organizers to manage the peer-review process.

=== Bepress portals ===
* ''The Digital Commons Network'' is a discovery tool for all Digital Commons sites
* ''The Law Review Commons'' is an index to law reviews published using Digital Commons
* ''The Bepress Legal Repository'' allows scholars and interested individuals to browse subject matter repositories in Law.
* ''Cobra'' allows scholars and interested individuals to browse subject matter repositories in Biostatistics.

== Journals ==
Bepress published [[Electronic journal|electronic journal]]s in the social sciences, law, medicine, and natural sciences, before selling the portfolio to Walter de Gruyter in September 2011.<ref>{{cite web|title=De Gruyter acquires 67 journals from bepress – details from De Gruyter's Sven Fund|url=http://www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelfrequired/2011/09/16/de-gruyter-acquires-67-journals-from-bepress-details-from-de-gruyters-sven-fund/|work=No Shelf Required|access-date=25 September 2013|author=spolanka|date=16 September 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928011247/http://www.libraries.wright.edu/noshelfrequired/2011/09/16/de-gruyter-acquires-67-journals-from-bepress-details-from-de-gruyters-sven-fund/|archive-date=28 September 2013}}</ref> It published its first journals in December 2000, with the exception of ''Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics'', which existed as a peer-reviewed [[Academic journal|academic journal]] prior to its incorporation into the Bepress system.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bepress.com/snde/about.html |title=About Bepress |access-date=2014-06-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110819193032/http://www.bepress.com/snde/about.html |archive-date=2011-08-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The journals included ''The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy'', ''The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics'', and ''The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics''.

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{cite web |url=https://tagteam.harvard.edu/hubs/oatp/tag/oa.bepress |title=(Bepress) |work=Open Access Tracking Project |oclc= 1040261573 |publisher=Harvard University |editor=Peter Suber |}}

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