The DeSci Journal
Building a blockchain-based decentralized scientific journal, The DeSci Journal, allows scientists to publish, monetize, and maintain copyright on research papers as NFTs.User Review
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Reviewed on 13 Feb 2024 05:41 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 Journal directly supports the mission by creating a decentralized platform for publishing and monetizing scientific content, which inherently includes exploring novel funding mechanisms through monetization of content and equitable distribution of financial gains.
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 DeSci Journal contributes to the mission by building a new platform for the decentralized publication and peer review of scientific papers and incorporating smart contracts to automate and fairly distribute earnings, which aligns with building and testing the necessary technological infrastructure for 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 project targets several issues in the DeSci mission, such as poor practices in scientific publishing and peer review by proposing a collaborative peer-review process, and financial barriers through its monetization scheme for content creators, thus promoting a fairer and more open scientific dialogue.
Projects must satisfy the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy in addition to the requirements described above.
While the proposal aligns with the spirit of the DeSci missions, assessment of the Gitcoin Program General Eligibility Policy requires additional information that isn't provided in the project description, such as compliance with legal, ethical, and technical standards set forth by the Gitcoin Program.