What people are saying
“Academic publishing, beset for decades by lengthy delays and inefficient review processes, could see a renaissance thanks to the advent of a new set of electronic journals.”
The Economist
“Both faculty members and librarians should be grateful for bepress's fight against the monopoly power of large publishing companies.”
Koen Vermeylen, Assistant Professor in Economics, University of Amsterdam, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
“I am very pleased with all aspects of the editorial process. Not least, I find it a great improvement that when a paper is finished, it gets published at once. To wait for up to one and a half years for a paper coming out in print is ridiculous.”
Anders Björklund, Professor of Economics, Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
“[Among] the most promising projects reshaping the world of scholarly communication.”
Library Journal
“Academic publishing, suffering from an inefficient and outmoded review process that has failed to keep pace with the information age, will receive a much needed shot of energy from bepress. The bepress approach uses the marvels of electronic technology to bring cutting-edge research to the public in a timely manner without undermining the peer-review process. I am very excited about this model, which will place power back in the hands of individual scholars and those interested in their work.”
Laura D'Andrea Tyson, former Presidential advisor (Chair, National Economic Council) and Dean of the London Business School
“The launch of The Berkeley Electronic Press is welcome news for scholars and libraries. Their commitment to innovation and low prices offers an appealing alternative to high-priced journals. The Berkeley Electronic Press quality-rating system in which articles are assigned to one of a range of bepress journals based on an evaluation of their relative merit - is intriguing. So is the "Authors & Reviewers' Bank". And I suspect that bepress short submission-to-publication time will provide a decisive edge in winning authors and subscribers. This kind of competition is good for scholarly communication.”
Rick Johnson, Enterprise Director, Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
“I have been very pleased with the way EdiKit has improved my life as an editor. It is so refreshing to devote my time to the papers rather than to the process.”
Judy Chevalier, Yale School of Management, and co-editor of The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
“The quality of reviewers was very high; I particularly appreciated the ability to send 'blind' queries to my reviewers, which took the guesswork out of responding to their requests. I believe that any journal would benefit incredibly from making this option available to authors.”
Raymond Fisman, Meyer Feldberg Associate Professor of Business, Columbia University, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
“The academic publishing industry is in dire need of a wake-up call, and I believe bepress is providing it. The bepress philosophy, which puts scholars first, is a winning proposition.”
Ugo Mattei, Fromm Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of Law, and co-editor of Global Jurist
“I believe that the bepress family of journals represents the most important advancement in academic publishing of our generation.”
Franceso Parisi, Professor of Law, University of Minnesota and University of Milan, and editor of the Review of Law and Economics
“The quality of the editors was definitely a consideration in submitting my paper to The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy. However, I like everything about the bepress electronic journals in economics. The time is right for these journals, and the design of the process couldn't be better.”
Edgar O. Olsen, Professor of Economics, University of Virginia, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
“The Berkeley Electronic Press has produced a system that offers libraries an opportunity to provide faculty and students with high quality, easily accessible content at reasonable pricing. The bepress model allows scholars to publish their original, refereed research in a timely manner with direct delivery to the desktop. End-users benefit from the convenience of 24x7 access and libraries save the space and processing costs associated with print.”
Milt Ternberg, Head Librarian, Long Business & Economics Library, Haas School of Business
“The speed with which the process was completed is so much better than the standard for more established journals in economics. We can only hope you are successful in breaking the conventional delays that are so harmful to the professional development of young economists. You have demonstrated that quality peer review and editing can be done in economics in as timely a fashion as it is done in many other disciplines.”
Jack Ochs, Professor and Chair of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
“I never have had such a short lag time between submission of manuscript to actual publication!”
Vivian Curran, Associate Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh, and contributor to Global Jurist
“We had an amazing thing happen - we turned around a manuscript in just 12 days! Before we began using EdiKit, I can assure you that had never occurred in the history of our journal.”
Amy Bartley, Editorial Assistant, NASPA Journal
“My authoring experience was probably the best to date in terms of speed and efficiency. The quality of the referees was also excellent, as good if not better than anything I've experienced (and that includes the AER, Rand, etcetera).”
Mark J. McCabe, Assistant Professor, School of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
“The journals are excellent and The Berkeley Electronic Press is doing a great job. This is much appreciated by readers across the world.”
Nicholas Kasirer, Professor of Law, McGill University
“The editorial feedback was much more timely than from other journals in the field, and of the highest quality. This ranks among my best experiences with the journal submission process.”
Michael Woodford, Professor of Economics and Banking, Princeton University, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
“I appreciated the rapid time to publication and, of perhaps greater importance, the quality of peer review. Because they typically expect manuscripts to be published somewhere within the B.E. family of journals, and to be published in the near future, referees within the bepress system have better motivation to provide constructive, thorough and thoughtful feedback than with traditional journals. I believe the bepress model will not only make life easier for authors, but also improve the quality of their research.”
Casey Mulligan, Associate Professor, University of Chicago, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
“EdiKit makes it much easier to produce a journal. It helps in tracking submissions, reviewing their status, and corresponding with authors. Automating the job means I'm less harried.”
James Gordley, Professor, University of California, Berkeley, and co-editor of Issues in Legal Scholarship
“I was very satisfied with my Berkeley Electronic Press authoring experience. The bepress system seems to me fully to live up to its claim of setting the new standard in scholarly publishing.”
Jeremy Edwards, Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
“The Berkeley Electronic Press represents the next generation of academic publishing. By expediting the publication process, keeping quality control intact, and taking advantage of the Internet, The Berkeley Electronic Press offers the best of all worlds to authors, editors, and readers.”
Chad Jones, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, and co-editor of The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
“I was very satisfied with this new publication outlet. Editorial feedback was very timely and of a high quality. The bepress way appears to be a model for the future of academic journals.”
Ian King, Associate Professor, University of Auckland, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
“The process of managing scholarly content is streamlined significantly with EdiKit. It is a great tool for editors of all stripes.”
Per Krusell, Professor of Economics, University of Rochester, and co-editor of The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
“The editorial feedback was excellent. I have never received better comments and suggestions from an editor. I have already recommended The Berkeley Electronic Press journals to my colleagues for their next papers.”
Ronnie Schφb, Professor, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, and contributor to The B.E.Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
“I appreciated the detailed comments on my paper, from both editor and referees. Rarely have I received such clear recommendations and good advice. I am actually looking forward to revising and resubmitting the paper! The whole experience has been markedly superior to that at more traditional journals.”
Dr. Alex Tabarrok, Vice President and Director of Research, The Independent Institute
“Thank you very much not only for the fast review process with quick publishing, but also for the efficient support in disseminating the article!”
Panu Poutvaara, Centre for Economic and Business Research, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
“I have found the Berkeley Electronic Press authoring experience remarkably painless and well-managed compared to most print journals. The turn-around time has been minimal, and the articles that I've been asked to review in "payment" were well-targeted to my interests.”
Shekhar Aiyar, International Monetary Fund, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
“My experience with Berkeley Electronic Press has been extremely good. It is fast, efficient and error-free. I do not understand why their method is not copied elsewhere.”
Yasheng Huang, MIT Sloan School of Management, and contributor to Business and Politics
“I had a wonderful experience with The Berkeley Electronic Press, both in terms of turnaround time and the comments from the editor.”
Ricardo Reis, Harvard University, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
“I was very pleased with the whole bepress experience and am recommending it highly to my colleagues. Less than two months from submission to publication—this is really a life-changing innovation for researchers everywhere!”
William Easterly, World Bank, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
“I really appreciate the journal style of International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems (IJEEPS) which is unique in many aspects...[The] review process of papers is good and very prompt and [the journal] publishes accepted papers very promptly...This newly started journal has made very good progress and gained popularity in a very short span of time.”
Dr. R.C. Bansal, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology Science, Pilani, India
“As an author who has published in a Berkeley Electronic Press journal, I cannot say in words about how impressed I am with the complete model. This is undoubtedly the most efficient publishing model I have ever witnessed. There must be an award I can nominate The Berkeley Electronic Press for!”
James A. DiGabriele, D.P.S., C.P.A., DiGabriele, McNulty & Co., LLC; editorial board member and author in the Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis
“bepress is nothing less than an academic sensationoffering articles only of the highest class.”
Mεrten Schultz, Faculty of Law, Stockholm University
“In general, my “authoring experience” with BEJM was absolutely wonderful. Fast turnaround times, excellent referee reports, careful and sensible editorial comments. I think I'd have said much of this even had the paper been rejected. The whole process was a pleasure.”
Liam Graham, University College London, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
“The Berkeley Electronic Press journals have a great process, at least an order of magnitude more constructive, efficient, and pleasant than the next best.”
Emily Blanchard, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Virginia, and contributor to The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy.