Berkeley Electronic Press names CEO

["Irene Perciali" <iperciali@bepress.com>]

NEWS RELEASE

Berkeley, CA, March 12, 2008 - Berkeley Electronic Press 
(bepress) announced today that its board of directors has named 
Gordon Tibbitts to serve as the company's chief executive 
officer.

Tibbitts comes to bepress after seven years as President of 
Blackwell Publishing, where he grew the company into the world's 
leading society publisher, and led the effort to develop an 
online platform for Blackwell journals. Tibbitts first entered 
the publishing field in 1980 as Director of Information Systems 
at Aster Publishing (later Advanstar), before moving to the 
Thomson Corporation in 1993, where he served as a vice-president 
until 1999. He holds a BS degree in Computer Science and an MBA 
from the University of Oregon.

"Gordon Tibbitts is a great match for Berkeley Electronic Press," 
said Chairman and Co-founder Aaron Edlin. "The past years have 
seen some great successes at bepress, and we are poised for 
substantial growth. Gordon is the right person to make it 
happen--a dynamic, energetic leader with valuable technical and 
publishing experience and vision."

In addition to his 25 years of experience at major publishing 
firms, Tibbitts is a founder and board chair of CLOCKSS and board 
member of LOCKSS, and has served on the Google publishing 
advisory board and as an advisor to ScholarOne and Atypon 
Systems, Inc. He frequently speaks and moderates at publishing, 
library, and technology meetings.

"bepress is an exciting place to be right now," Tibbitts 
commented. "It has a unique position in the scholarly 
communications marketplace, because it combines a 
library-friendly model for subscription journals with 
next-generation open-access publishing services. This combination 
has contributed to record growth, and sets the stage for the 
future: an array of tools and services that allow scholars and 
institutions to disseminate their research in the ways they 
really need."

In the next few months, Berkeley Electronic Press will exhibit 
and present at several major conferences. We invite you to visit 
us there and get to know more about us. To find out where, see 
http://www.bepress.com/events.

About The Berkeley Electronic Press

Founded by professors in 1999, Berkeley Electronic Press is both 
a publisher of peer-reviewed electronic journals and a software 
developer, having created Digital Commons, the world's leading 
hosted institutional repository that powers the University of 
California's eScholarship Repository, and those of over fifty 
other universities, societies, and other organizations. The 
company produces tools to improve scholarly communication via 
innovative and effective means of content production and 
dissemination. Bepress has a portfolio of products and services 
that reduce the costs of and barriers to access.

For additional information on bepress, please see: 
www.bepress.com.

Irene Perciali, Ph.D.
Director, Journals
The Berkeley Electronic Press
Phone: (510) 665-1200 Ext. 142
www.bepress.com/journals