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In 2002, [[bepress]], then known as the [[Berkeley Electronic Press]], partnered with the California Digital Library to create the eScholarship Repository<ref>[http://repositories.cdlib.org/escholarship/repository_release.pdf eScholarship Repository Release], April 3, 2002</ref> This entailed "hiding" some of the more sophisticated features of the existing journal publishing system, while adding features such as compliance with the [[Protocol for Metadata Harvesting|OAI-PMH]] harvesting protocol.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Library Journal "Digital Libraries" Columns 1997-2007, Roy Tennant|url = http://roytennant.com/column/?fetch=data/59.xml|website = roytennant.com|access-date = 2016-01-18}}</ref>
In June 2004, [[bepress]] officially launched its Digital Commons institutional repository software at the American Library Association annual conference.<ref>[http://proquest.com/pressroom/pressrelease/04/20041112.shtml ProQuest's Digital Commons@ Winning Broad Market Acceptance], November 12, 2004</ref>
From 2004 to July 2007, Digital Commons was licensed exclusively by [[ProQuest|ProQuest Information and Learning]]. As of July 2007, bepress resumed licensing Digital Commons directly to subscribers.<ref>[http://digitalcommons.bepress.com/institutions.html Institutional repositories published with Digital Commons]. Digital Commons.</ref>
In August 2017, it was announced that [[Elsevier]] had acquired [[bepress]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/08/03/elsevier-makes-move-institutional-repositories-acquisition-bepress|title=Elsevier makes move into institutional repositories with acquisition of Bepress|access-date=2017-08-25}}</ref>
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