Research data set of 115 bepress [Digital Commons][1] sites that are listed by bepress as "research universities". Repository size, download activity, and thesis and dissertation data collected from public readership maps on each repository site on 9/28/2017. Data set is supplemented with notations for Carnegie Classification, journal publishing, and thesis/dissertation information. Dataset is presented in MS Excel 2016 (bepress115.xlxs) and tab-delimitted text (bepress115.txt). For rough comparisons size and use data is presented for other repositories and publishers in MS Excel (other_repositories.xslx) and tab-delimitted text (other_repositories.txt). Presentation for the [CNI Fall 2017 Membership Meeting][2] based on this data is also included. Added 2017 listing of all bepress customers on 11/30/2019 (2017_bepress_all.xls and 2017_bepress_all.txt) [1]: https://www.bepress.com/products/digital-commons/ [2]: https://www.cni.org/events/membership-meetings/upcoming-meeting/fall-2017