Orvium — Making Science Open and Transparent

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The current scientific publishing industry is one of the most profitable in the world. The world’s largest academic publisher grew its profits to more than £900 million last year. Moreover, the existing publication model has several problems affecting science, including high publication costs (thousands of dollars); copyrights don’t belong to authors but to publishers; a long, non-transparent and often biased publication process and peers; lack of reward and recognition to reviewers.

What is Orvium?

Orvium is the first open source and decentralized framework for managing the life cycles of scientific publications and relevant data. Orvium opens the whole potential of a decentralized, fair, transparent and competitive market without prejudices, oligopolies and private interests.

Orvium uses blockchain technologies and decentralized storage to create a completely open, trackable and credible record of the publishing process. Each relevant action in the publishing process will be recorded in a blockchain and available to everyone, which will make science more transparent, universal and open than ever before.

Advantages:

Custom copyrights and licenses: authors and research institutions have full control over copyrights and licenses of their publications and work.
Publication with zero delay: in a few seconds an independent, decentralized and unchanging proof of existence, authorship and property in the detachment is established.
Support for research data. You can share research data and codes with the entire community or a specific team, including unpublished data to advance research
Cost Effective Journals: Provides a global platform for creating and managing scientific journals at a low cost.
The patronage of science: anyone can participate in research programs and challenge scientific communities to solve specific problems.
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