Berkeley Electronic Press

The Berkeley Electronic Press, also known as Bepress, is an electronic publishing firm which was founded by academics in 1999. It is dedicated to producing products and services to aid scholarly communication, including institutional repositories, subject matter repositories, working paper series, and editorial management software. It was co-founded by Aaron Edlin.

Journals

Bepress previously published a number of electronic journals in the social sciences, law, medicine, and natural sciences. The first ones were published in December, 2000, with the exception of Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, which existed as a peer-reviewed scientific journal prior to its incorporation into the Bepress system.^[1] In September 2011, Bepress sold its journal collection to Walter de Gruyter^[2]

Services

Open access publication tools

• Digital Commons is a software suite that allows institutions to showcase and preserve their scholarly output
• Selected Works enables individuals to create their own scholarly research pages
• The Working Paper and Pre-print series provide a vehicle for schools, centers, or research departments to disseminate their early research

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 Bepress Legal Repository allows scholars and interested inviduals to browse subject matter repositories in Law
• Cobra allows scholars and interested inviduals to browse subject matter repositories in Biostatistics

References

External links

• Official website