The site is made interesting. But, for not understanding as I am. Why do you need your scientific - publishing platform? Isn't a scientific journalistic plan to publish scientific materials enough?
Hi there,
So the problem at the moment is that most academic research is published in journals where the scientist has to pay a high fee to publish, and then also pay to read other articles in that journal. The fees are very high to publish articles, often $2500 - $5000.
11 European countries have stated that from 2020, all publicly funded research must be published pure open access (free to the public to access), and about 85% of existing journals will not be compatible with the new plan. Therefore, universities will either publish in existing pure open access journals or they will launch their own journals. We are providing a service for organisations which wish to launch their own journal, a SaaS platform which will interact with Ethereum to store metadata and unique hashes for each manuscript and variation of a manuscript.
So we can save universities and funders of research a lot of money, and we can use smart contracts to automate a lot of the work.
