<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap">With apologies for cross-posting:</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#333333" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px;white-space:pre-wrap">June 2017<br clear="all"></span></font><div><br></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The bepress community has just hit an exciting milestone: open access scholarship available in the </span><a href="http://network.bepress.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Digital Commons Network</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> has been downloaded over half a billion times. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">More than </span><a href="https://www.bepress.com/products/digital-commons/why-digital-commons/customers/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">500 institutions</span></a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> from around the world take credit for this achievement, from research universities and liberal arts colleges to health care networks, law schools, and research institutes. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#333333"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">See the <a href="https://www.bepress.com/news/scholarship-bepress-community-surpasses-half-billion-downloads/" target="_blank">full press release</a>. </span></font></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#333333"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#333333"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Best,</span></font></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#333333"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Casey</span></font></p></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px">Casey Busher</span></font><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;line-height:16px"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11px;line-height:16px">Director of Communications</span></font><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;line-height:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;line-height:16px">bepress</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;line-height:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;line-height:16px">510-665-1200 x182</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;line-height:16px"><span style="white-space:nowrap;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11px;line-height:16px"><a href="http://www.bepress.com/" style="color:rgb(0,51,102)" target="_blank">http://www.bepress.com</a></span></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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