About The Berkeley Electronic Press

bepress: Mission Statement

The Berkeley Electronic Press was founded in 1999 by academics to address the inefficiencies in the current scholarly publishing model. Our mission is to build and implement mechanisms to streamline the publication process, creating tangible benefits for authors, editors, readers, and libraries. bepress promotes the following goals:

  • Scholar-led innovations in publishing
  • Alternative production and dissemination of scholarship
  • Reduction in costs of, and barriers to, access
  • New electronic journals in underserved and emerging disciplines
  • Comprehensive repositories promoting one-stop shopping for researchers

To learn more about bepress journals, click here. For more information on how you, your institution, research unit, or learned society might employ bepress technology, click here.