Beprexit First Fridays
Monthly updates on beprexit taskforce work
Come in for conversation and to learn what's new with beprexit!
Beprexit First Fridays
Dates (every first Friday of the month):
March 2
April 6
May 4
June 1
July 6
August 3
September 7
Friday, Mar 2, 2018, 12:00 PM
Van Pelt Library, Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA, USA
More information on beprexit
The Penn Libraries is exploring options for open source platforms to host our institutional repository, ScholarlyCommons, which currently uses bepress’ Digital Commons software. Bepress’ recent acquisition by Elsevier is certainly troubling, but we choose to see this as an opportunity for the Penn Libraries – and potentially other libraries – to reimagine our repository systems and the ways in which we support open access dissemination of scholarly materials.
This “bepress exit,” or “beprexit,” as we call it, encompasses more than simply finding alternatives to bepress/Elsevier: It is questioning the purpose of an institutional repository and exploring the future of scholarly communication. We’re taking a hard look at the various types of scholarly expressions our academic community is producing beyond traditional book and journal publishing and how they are disseminating those expressions. We’re looking at needs – met and unmet – and rethinking how we support our community.
For Penn’s official statement, please see https://beprexit.wordpress.com/official-statement
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