Bepress is a commercial, academic software firm owned by

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. 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

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and publishing software. Until September 2011 it also published electronic journals. In August 2017, Bepress was acquired by RELX Group for an undisclosed amount, reported to be around £100 million ($129.3 million). The acquisition drew criticism from the library community.

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 journals in the social sciences, law, medicine, and natural sciences, before selling the portfolio to

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in September 2011. It published its first journals in December 2000, with the exception of ''Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics'', which existed as a

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prior to its incorporation into the Bepress system. 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''.

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* * {{Authority control Elsevier Academic publishing companies Publishing companies of the United States Publishing companies established in 1999 Publishing companies based in Berkeley, California 1999 establishments in California Software companies established in 1999 Academic journal online publishing platforms 2017 mergers and acquisitions