Private company

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.2 From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 19, 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

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Timeline

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

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