Berkeley Electronic Press names new Publisher

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

Berkeley Electronic Press names new Publisher -- for immediate 
release

Berkeley, CA -- September 10, 2008

Society and peer-reviewed publisher and software developer, The 
Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress), announced the appointment of 
a new Publisher, Alison Denby. Alison will be responsible for the 
bepress journals publishing program, which includes 42 owned and 
scholarly society journals. She will report to the CEO of 
bepress, Gordon Tibbitts, and will be based at bepress 
headquarters in California.

This appointment reflects the growth and depth of bepress's 
journals collection and its commitment to ensuring that its 
partners have access to the best scholarly journals and services 
in their fields. Alison will support this goal by leading the 
expansion of bepress's journals publishing program.

Commenting on the appointment, Gordon Tibbitts said, "Alison is 
one of the industry's leading journal publishers. Her experience 
includes extensive success with acquiring successful academic 
journals, building and leading editorial teams, developing and 
implementing innovative service offerings, strategic client 
consultation and development, and operational optimization. We 
are delighted to appoint Alison: her skills and experience are a 
perfect fit with bepress's strategy to continue to drive the 
growth and development of our journals program and bepress's 
broader suite of services."

Alison brings close to 20 years of journals editorial and sales 
experience in the publishing industry to bepress. Before joining 
bepress, she held senior positions at John Wiley & Sons and 
Blackwell Publishing, where she worked closely with academic 
societies and journal editorial teams.

About The Berkeley Electronic Press

Founded by professors in 1999, The 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 ninety other universities, societies, and 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 journals, please see: 
www.bepress.com/journals

To sign up for news & announcements about bepress journals, 
please visit http://works.bepress.com/bepress_journals

Press Contact:
Gordon Tibbitts, CEO
gtibbitts@bepress.com
510-809-1655