About bepress journals
bepress journal title information and data: download spreadsheet (Excel)
The Berkeley Electronic Press launched its first journals in December of 2000. The goal of bepress is to produce rapidly-reviewed, high-quality journals. The evidence to date is clear - we have largely eliminated the delays in publication resulting from review and publication queues. The median decision time in 2006 was 27 days. Over 94% of papers were adjudicated within 10 weeks.
As word of the bepress model has spread, interest within academia has grown significantly. More than 250,000 professors, researchers, practitioners, and other interested parties are now receiving email notifications of newly published content. In addition, both readership and submissions have grown dramatically:
bepress Journal Article Submissions by Year
bepress Journal Article Views by Year
More than 75% of North American law schools now subscribe to bepress legal journals, including the top 25 as ranked by US News & World Report. Similarly, more than 350 major institutions subscribe to The B.E. Journals in economics, including the top 20 schools. Our subscription base includes representation from 6 continents. Click here for subscription information.
The bepress journals have received further validation by virtue of their inclusion in EconLit, Web of Science, MEDLINE, Thomson/ISI, and other prominent indexing and abstracting services.
Scholarly Communication Crisis
The Berkeley Electronic Press is trying to help libraries and scholars by starting new journals in growing areas of scholarship, by committing to maintaining reasonable price levels, and by way of efficient and timely reviewing and publishing. So far, our business model has proven successful, and we have gained widespread acceptance among both researchers and the library community. To read more about the scholarly communication crisis that we are trying to solve click here.
Commonly Requested Information
- Submissions: To submit an article to a journal, click the journal name and then click the Submit Article link at the top of the journal's cover page.
- Announcements & Updates: To join the email announcement list for a journal, see the Mailing List section on the journal's cover page.
- Subscriptions: For information about subscribing to the journals, see the Subscriptions page.
- Coverage in Indexing & Abstracting Services: To learn more about which indexing and abstracting services cover Berkeley Electronic Press journals, click here.
- Journal Roster & Publication Data: To view our complete roster of bepress journals, including subscription, publication, and indexing data in Excel format, click here.
- Archiving:
The Berkeley Electronic Press is pleased to participate in both Portico and LOCKSS, two respected independent archives of scholarly journals. Portico is a non-profit initiative supported by the Library of Congress, JSTOR, and the Mellon Foundation. The Berkeley Electronic Press was the second publisher to join Portico, and has been followed by Oxford University Press, Elsevier, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and many others. The LOCKSS program is a Stanford University initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation. In addition, the Econometrics Laboratory at UC Berkeley has agreed to provide an open-access archive as a public service for Berkeley Electronic Press journals in the event that publication should cease. - Copy Editing:
For a list of copy editors with whom bepress authors have previously worked, please visit our Copy editors page.