The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) will no longer sell its repository platform through ProQuest and will now sell it directly. From the announcement (dated June 27 but released today):
The Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) announced today that it would begin selling its Institutional Repository platform directly. The bepress Institutional Repository platform currently powers the eScholarship Repository of the University of California system as well as over 50 schools under the name of Digital Commons sold by ProQuest Information and Learning....
For the past three years, the bepress platform has been licensed exclusively by ProQuest Information and Learning. Henceforth, all new licenses will be made directly by bepress....
According to [Bepress'] Tim Tamminga, “the bepress IR product completes the bepress package of open access publication tools, with SelectedWorks for individuals to create their own websites for showcasing their intellectual accomplishments, EdiKit to manage the workflow processes of creating and managing the publication of journals and individual working paper series, and now IRs to host an entire organization’s intellectual output. Integration of all these capabilities into the Institutional Repository service will be our focus for the short term.” ...
Posted by
Peter Suber at 7/10/2007 03:03:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
