Bepressis a commercial, academic software firm owned byRELX Group.It began in 1999 as the Berkeley Electronic Press, co-founded by academicsRobert CooterandAaron Edlin.It makes products and services to support scholarly communication, includinginstitutional repositoryand publishing software. Until September 2011 it also publishedelectronic journals.
In August 2017, Bepress was acquired by RELX Group for an undisclosed amount, reported to be around £100 million ($129.3 million).[1][2]The acquisition drew criticism from the library community.[3]
Bepress publishedelectronic journalsin the social sciences, law, medicine, and natural sciences, before selling the portfolio toWalter de Gruyterin September 2011.[4]It published its first journals in December 2000, with the exception ofStudies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics,which existed as apeer-reviewedacademic journalprior to its incorporation into the Bepress system.[5]The journals includedThe B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy,The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics,andThe B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics.
