The DeSci Journals
Creating a decentralized platform for scientific publications, using web3 to let authors retain copyright and monetize their work, disrupting a revenue-rich traditional publishing industry.User Review
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Reviewed on 22 Apr 2024 07:07 PM
Projects should directly support the mission of DeSci to innovate scientific research by exploring novel mechanisms of funding, conducting, and disseminating scientific research in an open, inclusive, and accessible manner.
The DeSci Journals project proposes a decentralized publishing model that aims to address the traditional publishing industry's issues by allowing authors to retain copyrights and earn through a cooperative model. This aligns with DeSci's mission to innovate in scientific research through novel funding and dissemination methods.
DeSci projects most commonly support this mission by building and testing necessary technological infrastructure, but projects may also be eligible if they are deploying existing DeSci infrastructure in a scientific research context or if they are educating and recruiting members of the scientific community to contribute to the mission.
The project is building technological infrastructure for decentralized scientific journals using Web3 technologies, which constitutes testing and deployment of new infrastructure while potentially educating and engaging the scientific community in decentralized science (DeSci).
Concrete examples of issues covered by the DeSci mission include: the data reproducibility crisis and archaic data sharing practices; misaligned incentives and poor practices in scientific publishing and peer review; financial, linguistic, and academic barriers to globally inclusive research; intellectual property, patents, and financial incentives to trade progress for profits; academic disconnect and poor science/health literacy and trust in the lay public and government representatives.
The DeSci Journals addresses several of these issues by proposing a peer-reviewed publication platform that aims to realign incentives through economic participation for authors and reviewers, thereby potentially impacting the traditional practices in scientific publishing.
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