Visitors to the new Digital Commons Network (DCN) portal recently launched by bepress are greeted with a clean layout featuring one prominent, ornate graphic-a large, three-layered, color-coded wheel encircling a simple invitation: "Explore 691,431 works from 275 institutions." As the new portal to content produced and stored using bepress's widely used Digital Commons publishing and institutional repository platform, those numbers will continue to grow, but two key qualities of this resource are expected to remain constant. These works will all be full text, and they will all be open access.
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