Peer to peer review is the only independent quality control step to test research. However, traditional publishers cannot handle the current requirement of publication. This is mainly due to the outdated and inefficient business model and the fact that more and more science is being created today than ever before in history.
Some magazines / publishers enjoy this high demand and use predatory practices to increase their profits. They eliminate the necessary quality control and perform poor quality reviews. This is possible because of the opaque existing peer review process imposed by the industry. This lack of transparency is a real problem for “fake science”, and the solution offered through Orvium is to transform the entire life cycle of science, including the peer review process, in a completely transparent, using public, reliable and independent record, in the process of publishing scientific articles.
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Researchers submit the manuscript to one of the publishers. At this stage, they sign an exclusive contract and give them all the copyrights and licenses. After that, publishers turn to other local scientists asking them to verify the authenticity of the manuscript on a voluntary basis.
If everything is in order after verification, the publishers will note that the manuscript is ready for publication, but still it will have to wait several months to get a free slot in the magazine. The current process is long, non-transparent for both authors and the scientific community.
In a sense, the scientific publishing industry is very unique. What distinguishes it from the traditional publication. However, a significant portion of the cost of editing and expert observation is already paid for or carried out on a voluntary basis by the research community.
What is Orvium all about and how will it solve the problems?
Orvium is the first open source and decentralized framework for managing scholarly publications’ life cycles and the associated data. Blockchain allows us to build infrastructures that enable open, trustworthy, decentralized, and collaborative environments. Using this technology, researchers can submit entries into public records of information and the scientific community can control how those records are amended and updated.In addition to its open nature, blockchain has two other important properties: it is transparent, and it is impossible to corrupt or hack.Orvium works like this: papers, reviews, reviewers, citations, authors, research data, etc. are all modeled and stored within the blockchain. Every submission, modification, and review is registered so the complete life cycle of the paper, starting from the first submission, is publicly available.This brings to life an entirely new model, which introduces numerous benefits such as automatic publications, free license model, copyright retention, an open and transparent review process, citation checks, author validations, analytics, and many others.