I'm still no researcher myself, but will have to do some soon and this project would be nice to that. So, in that network you would access the documents paying with the token and most those tokens would go to the author? Avoiding the middleman would be great, I cannot but think the the patents and publications business is shady right now. And the collaboration idea is a good one, science should be open like a Github repository.
Looking at your white paper it seems it seems underconstruction yet, so I think I will have to wait