What are we building? Solutions aligned with the Decentralized science (DeSci) movement regarding intellectual property protection, publishing and funding. We are currently building The DeSci Journals, a decentralized scientific publishing platform. The DeSci Journals is a digital cooperative platform. We practice 100% copyright for Authors while industry standard is zero %. We use a 1-page with simple and straightforward submission flow for both articles https://platform.desci.reviews/summary/new-document and journals (recently developed and deployed in version 2) https://platform.desci.reviews/summary/new-journal which is a new much simpler feature when compared to pages long used in traditional scientific journals. We made adding wallets optional. We have also introduced features such as the percentage of authorship, which can include laboratories, institutions and companies and, the choice of open access or paid access where the funds will go directly to the Author’s (or Authors’) wallet. For version 3 we will develop a web3 login and publish papers as NFTs to push forward a secondary market formation.

By using The DeSci Journals as platform for their technical and scientific publications which includes conferences an events, individuals and communities will capitalize on its technical merit. They will also tap into a flourishing ecosystem that aligns with a broader vision for the future of science, building a portfolio of tradable scientific assets.

Why does it matter? Scientific publishing houses and science journals have outrageously high publication fees. These fees range from 2 to 6k USD for 1 paper, some charge 10k-15 USD/ paper. Open access is another 2-4k USD. Currently, it is right to say that the scientific publication industry hinders the advance of human knowledge. Paying attention only to their profits, legacy scientific journals: • Act as filters to what they believe is high quality research worth publishing; • use high rejection rates which are uncoupled from merit, significance, and quality, • take a long time from submission to publishing; • undermine the expectations of the scientific community and the development of the human society; • authors (scientists, professionals and, scholars), reviewers and most editors (also scientists) do not get paid for working in the peer-reviewing process of papers for science journals. • Authors: 1) pay for publishing, 2) pay for open access and moreover, 3) have their copyright expropriated. • Universities and Research Institutions pay shockingly high annual subscription fees so that alumni and staff have access to journals.

Who will benefit from it?

Researchers, scientists, students, startups and companies which produce knowledge.

The DeSci movement.