Orvium is a decentralised blockchain powered science platform, where all scholarly publications are open and transparent. Science is the force behind the revolutionary changes in the history of mankind. Science will the change way we live, work and communicate in the society. Scientific publications play important role in the research. But current publication model has several problems which is affecting the scientific research community. Including publishers copyright issues, high publication costs, biased review process and low quality of journals. Orvium is here to improve the quality of scientific publications, to eliminate the market insufficiencies. With the help of Blockchain technology Orvium wants to make transparent scientific publication model.
Problems in the current model :
High cost to access scientific results : Internet and digitisation process of scientific publications created open access journals. High cost is required to maintain these services. In addition authors directly experience high publication costs 3,000 - 5000 USD per publication.
Lack of Transparency : Peer review is the process by which papers are published, academics promoted and prizes are won. Peer review is bias, often it suffers the same problem because reviewers are also struggling to get recognition in the same field.
Long delay in submission and publication :
The time gap between the submission and publication is dependent on human factors. Whenever a journal receives manuscript, it is then submitted to reviewers. Once it is successfully reviewed then it is stored for publication. As publication happens on monthly or quarterly basis until the publication time is completed the reviews journals are stored in the system.
Copyright and licence owned by publishers :
Currently copyrights are enforced by owners of the journal not by Authors. Author's grant copyright permission to exploit their content without retribution.
Low quality journals and predatory practices :
In the recent years fake, low quality and predatory journals are increased. The number is increasing more than half a million articles per year. Researchers publish articles only to get recognition and for career advancement. They don't care about the quality of the journal.
Orvium's solution :
By establishing a decentralised platform with competitive market Orvium wants to disrupt the current publication model. Orvium's idea is simple : research institutes and author's hold copyright licences to use of their publications. They have the choice to set prices and terms to use of their content. Orvium's goal is to incentivize reviewers and researchers for the establishment of efficient science.
Features of Orvium platform :
Optimal publication costs : Orvium publication costs are not influenced by any other entities. With sustainable publication, operational costs are minimised.
Transparent and multi author peer review :
In Orvium, research community directly determines and self regulate the publications. And it is open and publically accountable. Several reviewers with together to check the impact quality of the journals and to avoid the rejection.
Reward and recognition for peer reviewers :
For proper reviews, reviewers get recognised and receive ORV tokens once the author accepts the review. Orvium provides public recognition to reviewers for their work.
Zero delay in publication : In Orvium's zero-delay model manuscripts are available at the moment they are submitted. These manuscripts are in early draft status where Orvium establishes time stamped proof of existence and ownership. Then it is appear online, where anyone from around the world can download, peer review, make comment and tweet about it. This makes immediate recognition to researchers and make efficient scientific community.
Custom copyright and user licence : Orvium encourages open access to unlock full potential of un biased scientific publications. However the decision is with the authors and research institutes about licencing of their publication whether they can grant free access or subscription access.
Decentralised journals : In Orvium journals are recognised with Decentralised Autonomous Journals (DAJ). Anyone can initiate DAJ and define it's governance rules.
Publication model comparison :
Token Distribution :
Conclusion : Orvium wants to revolutionize the scientific publication model with transparent, low cost peer review system. In Orvium model peer reviewers get recognised and incentivized correctly for their work towards scientific community. Author's have control over their research papers. Fully traceable copyright system. With Decentralised Autonomous Journals gives a unique recognition to journals. Journals are stored in decentralised systems. Orvium uses ORV token which is ethereum blockchain based ERC20 token. It's a great project to revolutionize the scientific community. As science is the force behind the revolutionary changes in human history.
Know more about Orvium :
Website : https://orvium.io
Read whitepaper : https://orvium.docsend.com/view/nvr6ywj
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