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Bepress

Logo: Bepress, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Subsidiary of RELX Group

Bepress is a commercial, academic software firm owned by RELX Group. 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 institutional repository and publishing software.2 It is part of Elsevier.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1999Founded1

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Bepress is a commercial, academic software firm owned by RELX Group. 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 institutional repository and publishing software. Until September 2011 it also published electronic journals.2

Corporate structure

Bepress is part of a group headed by Elsevier. 16 entities, 4 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

Products and brands

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.

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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.

From Wikipedia’s article on Bepress, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

Owners

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Timeline

  1. Aug 2, 2017Acquired Acquired by Elsevier1
  2. 1999Founded Founded1

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