What Elsevier’s acquisition of bepress means for legal scholarship: Backgrounder and commentary – Hearsay: UVic Law Library
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Summary:
"This month Elsevier (a related company to LexisNexis) announced its acquisition of bepress (formerly Berkeley Electronic Press), a scholarly communications company whose services include Digital Commons, an institutional repository platform and expressO, an online article manuscript delivery and management service for law reviews.
The acquisition of bepress is of particular importance to the academic law community as the Digital Commons is currently used by 74% of US law schools with a digital repository. The Digital Commons also includes the Law Commons Network, a open access database of over 350,000 law related scholarly works, aggregated from across all Digital Commons repositories."