Bepress

Bepress
Founded 1999
Founder Robert D. Cooter and Aaron S. Edlin
Country of origin United States
Headquarters location Berkeley, California
Official website www.bepress.com

Bepress, formerly the Berkeley Electronic Press, is an academic software firm that was founded by academics in 1999. It is dedicated to producing products and services to support scholarly communication, including institutional repository and publishing software. Until September 2011 it also published electronic journals. It was co-founded by Robert Cooter and Aaron Edlin. In August 2017, Elsevier acquired bepress for a sum in the region of £100,000,000.[1][2][3][4]

Services

Open access publication tools

Submission and editorial management tools

Bepress portals

Journals

Bepress published electronic journals in the social sciences, law, medicine, and natural sciences, before selling the portfolio to Walter de Gruyter in September 2011.[5] 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 prior to its incorporation into the Bepress system.[6] 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

  1. "Elsevier acquires institutional repository provider bepress". The Scholarly Kitchen. 2017-08-02. Retrieved 2017-08-03.
  2. Elsevier. "Elsevier acquires bepress, a leading service provider used by academic institutions to showcase their research". www.elsevier.com. Retrieved 2017-08-03.
  3. Foremski, Tom. "Elsevier acquires bepress in bid to boost its academic publishing and analytics services | ZDNet". ZDNet. Retrieved 2017-08-03.
  4. "Subscribe to read". Financial Times. Retrieved 2017-08-03.
  5. spolanka (16 September 2011). "De Gruyter acquires 67 journals from bepress – details from De Gruyter’s Sven Fund". No Shelf Required. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  6. About Bepress
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