The Berkeley Electronic Press, also known as Bepress, is an electronic publishing

Electronic publishing

Electronic publishing or ePublishing includes the digital publication of e-books and electronic articles, and the development of digital libraries and catalogues. Electronic publishing has become common in scientific publishing where it has been argued that peer-reviewed scientific journals are in...

 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

Aaron Edlin

Professor and author Aaron S. Edlin is a noted expert in law and economics, specializing in antitrust. In 1997–1998, he served in the Clinton White House as Senior Economist within the Council of Economic Advisers focusing on the areas of industrial organization, regulation and antitrust...

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Journals

Bepress previously published a number of electronic journal

Electronic journal

Electronic journals, also known as ejournals, e-journals, and electronic serials, are scholarly journals or intellectual magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission. In practice, this means that they are usually published on the Web...

s 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

Peer review

Peer review is a process of self-regulation by a profession or a process of evaluation involving qualified individuals within the relevant field. Peer review methods are employed to maintain standards, improve performance and provide credibility...

 scientific journal

Scientific journal

In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication intended to further the progress of science, usually by reporting new research. There are thousands of scientific journals in publication, and many more have been published at various points in the past...

 prior to its incorporation into the Bepress system. In September 2011, Bepress sold its journal collection to Walter de Gruyter

Walter de Gruyter

Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG is a scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature. Its origins date back to 1749 when it was given the right to print books by King Frederick II of Prussia. -De Gruyter Mouton:...

Open access publication tools

• Digital Commons
  Digital commons
  Digital Commons is a hosted repository platform. This hosted service is licensed by the Berkeley Electronic Press. It is used by associations, consortia, universities and colleges to preserve and showcase their scholarly output.- History :...
  
  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