Rethinking bepress | Public Knowledge Project

"The recent announcement of Elsevier’s acquisition of bepress has generated considerable discussion in the library community, especially by those responsible for providing institutional repository and scholarly publishing services at their institutions. It has also resulted in many questions about Open Journal Systems (OJS) as an alternative option for library publishing programs.

For bepress users looking to work with an open source, community-based, and non-commercial initiative, OJS provides an editorial management and publishing platform to an international community of over 10,000 journals. If you’re interested in migrating an existing bepress journal to OJS or starting a new journal with OJS, there are some important issues to consider"