Subscription Policies and Librarian FAQ

bepress journals are designed with the librarian in mind. We are committed to library-friendly prices and policies. If you cannot find an answer to your question below, please email . We will update this page with more information regularly.

Journals and collections

Before you order

After you order

What new journals are planned for the upcoming year?

bepress will launch the following titles in 2010:

  • Accounting, Economics, and Law – A Convivium, on behalf of Convivium
  • Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, on behalf of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis
  • Statistics, Politics and Policy

bepress will be publishing the following journals from 2010:

  • Asia-Pacific Journal of Risk and Insurance, previously published by the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association
  • Journal des Economists et des Etudes Humaines, previously published by the Institute for Economic Studies-Europe
  • Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice (formerly the NASPA Journal), previously published by NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education
  • NASPA Journal about Women in Higher Education, previously published by NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education
  • Journal of College and Character, previously published by NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education
  • Review of Network Economics, previously published by Concept Economics

When does bepress announce its journal price list for the new year?

To give librarians plenty of time to budget, we announce our prices for the new year in September of the previous year. At any time, you can see our most current journal titles and prices on our Journal Title Information spreadsheet.

How can I find out about new bepress journals and pricing?

Sign up to the mailing list at our bepress journals news feed to stay up to date with new journals, pricing information, special offers, and news and events. Or, send an email to .

I am an academic, government, or non-profit librarian. How do I place an order for bepress journals?

You may fax in a copy of our order form, or simply email .

I am a corporate librarian. How do I place an order for bepress journals?

For corporate and for-profit orders, please contact . We will set a subscription price based on the number of potential users and the number of geographic locations where the subscription might be used.

How do I order a personal subscription to a bepress journal?

bepress does not offer personal subscriptions for most of our journals. There are a few exceptions: journals that are frequently read outside the academic community and by unaffiliated scholars. Individuals interested in subscriptions to those journals can submit orders by fax using the PDF order form for personal subscriptions.

  • Complete the PDF order form along with credit card information, and fax to Journal Sales at 510-665-1201.
  • We will confirm your subscription and turn on access as soon as we receive your order. For any questions or to report a problem, please contact .
  • Personal subscriptions are intended for personal use only. Subscriptions are not to be used for business or commercial purposes. To use bepress journals at your company, please consult with your corporate librarian or email .

Can I include articles in course readers, on my library website, and in e-reserves?

Members of subscribing institutions may use bepress articles in the following ways:

  • Post links on course web sites and e-reserve sites, and include links in electronic course packs. We do ask that you direct your users to the article's original site at bepress for the full text, rather than reproducing the full text electronically on your servers. This allows us to report the most accurate usage statistics.
  • Print and distribute the full text in course packs, provided these uses are restricted to members of that institution and are not commercial or fee-based.
  • To include bepress articles in commercial and/or fee-based course readers, or for any other commercial use, please contact and describe the way that you plan to use the article. We will calculate a reprint fee appropriate to the type of intended use.

What is your policy on inter-library loan?

Subscribing libraries may participate in interlibrary loan, under the constraints outlined in U.S. copyright law and CONTU.

How do I gain access to my institution's usage reports?

Usage statistics reports are available to all institutional subscribers. Please email to set up regular usage reports.

How can I connect bepress journals to my library's gateway?

bepress journals are available through SFX as a target via our XML gateway. We are listed on the ExLibris site as an SFX target.

To set up the connection, subscribers will need to enter the following gateway URL:

http://www.bepress.com/cgi/gateway.cgi

This will allow subscribers to use SFX for metasearch and article-level linking to bepress content.

bepress supports the NISO MXG Draft standard which is itself a subset of SRU 1.1. We do not, however, support SRW at this time.

Where are your journals indexed?

Journal articles are indexed in the most popular search engines and indexing & abstracting services for easy discovery by faculty, students, and staff. Please visit our indexing & abstracting page or the journals' individual sites to find out more.

What is bepress's plan for archiving and perpetual access?

Customers receive perpetual access to the articles that are published in the journals to which they subscribe, during the term of their subscription. All bepress journals are archived according to leading industry standards. We are pleased to participate in both Portico and LOCKSS, two respected independent archives of scholarly journals. We also archive our health & medicine journals with PubMedCentral, the NIH-sponsored permanent open-access archive.

We regularly send these archives the full text and metadata of all the journals we publish. We will continue to enhance our archiving and stay up to date with evolving industry standards.

Why haven’t I received a copy of my journal in the mail?

We only print two titles, Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice and NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education. All other bepress journals are online only.

If you have not received your print copy of Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice or NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, please contact .

To suggest more questions that you’d like to see covered here, please email .