bepress Digital Commons → DSpace
University of Massachusetts Amherst
After a four-year evaluation, the University of Massachusetts Amherst migrated its 18-year-old ScholarWorks repository off bepress Digital Commons — driven by unease at relying on a proprietary, publisher-owned platform following Elsevier's acquisition of bepress. Atmire moved 51,067 open-access items, including complex journal structures and electronic theses, onto the DSpace 7 Open Repository, notably mapping the proprietary 'Expert Gallery Suite' into native DSpace Person entities to preserve rich author profiles. The new system adds Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on and a 'Request a Copy' workflow. A prominent example of an R1 university leaving a commercial platform on principle.
Original source
UMass Amherst: Migration from bepress Digital Commons to Atmire's Open Repository
Atmire
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