Elsevier recently purchased bepress, a publisher of journals and the Digital Commons platform often used by universities for their institutional repositories. Roger C. Schonfeld writes in a recent post on The Scholarly Kitchen blog, “In a move entirely consistent with its strategy to pivot beyond content licensing to preprints, analytics, workflow, and decision-support, Elsevier is now a major if not the foremost single player in the institutional repository landscape. If successful, and there are some risks, this acquisition will position Elsevier as an increasingly dominant player in preprints, continuing its march to adopt and coopt open access.” Schonfeld’s blog post can found here.