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.
[3] Bepress published electronic journals in the social sciences, law, medicine, and natural sciences, before selling the portfolio to Walter de Gruyter in September 2011.
[4] It published its first journals in December 2000, with the exception of Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, which existed as a peer-reviewed academic journal prior to its incorporation into the Bepress system.