The DeSci Journals
A decentralized scientific publishing platform offering 100% copyright for authors, simple submission, options for open or paid access, digital cooperative compensation, and publication as NFTs.User Review
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Reviewed on 3 Aug 2024 09:01 PM
The project should fall under the category of Decentralized Science. (https://ethereum.org/en/desci/)
The DeSci Journals aim to create a decentralized scientific publishing platform, aligning with the principles of Decentralized Science as outlined on ethereum.org.
The project should aim to build public infrastructure for funding, creating, reviewing, crediting, storing, and/or disseminating scientific knowledge (either by organizing conferences, meetings, workshops and/or hackathons then contributing to onboard scientists into the blockchain ecosystem) fairly and equitably using the Web3 stack.
The project focuses on building a decentralized platform for publishing scientific papers, allowing authors to maintain their copyrights and introducing features like NFT paper minting and royalty payments, aligned with the use of the Web3 stack.
The project should be able to clearly articulate its goals and objectives.
The project clearly states its goals and objectives, such as empowering collaborative creation of scientific publications and leveraging web3 principles for decentralized publishing.
The project must have a clear and well-defined problem statement, as well as a plan for addressing the problem.
The project has articulated a clear problem statement about the current scientific publishing industry's issues and provides a detailed plan to address these problems through a decentralized platform.
The project must have a clear roadmap and timeline for implementation, with achievable goals.
The project presents a detailed roadmap with specific versions (v3, v4, etc.) and timeline for implementation, including development stages and marketing efforts.
The project should be open-source and collaborative in nature.
Although the project promotes collaboration and aims to be open-source, the recent GitHub activity does not show significant contributions in the past three months, making the collaborative efforts uncertain.
The project must be able to provide regular updates on its progress to the Gitcoin community.
The project has a track record of participation in previous Gitcoin rounds and provides regular updates, as evidenced by the application and social media activity.