THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING INDUSTRY; ORVIUM AND THE SCIENCE DISSEMINATION

THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING INDUSTRY; ORVIUM AND THE SCIENCE DISSEMINATION

The scientific Publishing industry is relatively an unpopular sector; an attribute it may have won owing to her relatively veiled approach to things. This is why one can easily give credits to food, pharma and gadget manufacturing companies as improving man’s living standard, without giving similar credits to the foundation research processes that made it all a reality. Of a truth, these acclaimed productions were no doubt, made possible by harnessing a global archive of scientific research results and processes made available by the scientific publishing industries. Without such archive; the productivity of such companies will be so expensive, and the production process so tedious that we would have been left 20 years behind in science related developments and could hardly afford any of such developments that may come by.

In the areas that affects the industry internally, access to similar information has also been adjudged as a necessity. Fellow researchers needs the awareness of research backed data that has been published and validated to avoid possible replication or building on previous researches that are already published and validated. This and many more, calls for an open and transparent access to such archive without altering the existing validated records.

These revelations have gone to show how vital the scientific publishing industry could be and why transparency, openness and flexible dissemination of such information should be encouraged within the community. Unfortunately, while the technology and other developmental facets of operation aimed at improving the industry profitability were been improved on, the business model has been left behind, leading to restrictions and hoarding of several information from the public and community; delayed publications and biased approach to doing things by the publishing companies. This leaves the researchers and research institutions increasingly frustrated and discouraged.

In essence; dissemination, which is an offshoot of a research cycle and inspired by an idea meant to be researched into with requisite approvals and funding as illustrated below;

Research / dissemination cycle

has proven to be a necessity in the advancement of scientific publishing and global science growth in general hence; the need for an upgrade in the business model to accommodate an open source approach of information dissemination, within the industry. The current business model has proven to be a clog in the wheel for the industry, with the following challenges itemized below:

• Lack of standardized procedures binding authors and reviewers making the system non transparent.
• High cost of access to scientific results owing to the attendant publication cost.
• Limited availability of research backed data hence; inhibiting the scientific validation and collaboration process
• Poor community reviews owing to the poor structure, recognition and reward for reviewing scientists
• Delayed publications
• Copyrights and licenses coveted by publishers
• Low quality journals and predatory practices like plagiarism etc.
  .
  In light of these challenges; a new project was born in ORVIUM.

Orvium; the first open source and decentralized platform for managing peer review scholarly publication lifecycles and associated data, is set to alter the above challenges by ushering in a new business model that will utilize its features and decentralized attributes that will move us to a more society focused platform; eliminating market inefficiencies and improving quality and effectiveness in scientific publishing.

Below are some promising features and solutions that Orvium hopes to battle the impending challenges with and even went further in providing features that has never been conceived before now.

• Instant publication of manuscripts; offering proof of existence
• Friendly publication and access costs
• Returns the copyrighting and licensing rights to an author; who may wish to transfer same at his/ her own volition
• Perfect publishing of research data integrated with the research processes
• Transparent peer reviews with public recognition and rewards for the reviewers
• Collaborative platform for multi authorship of publications aimed at encouraging collaborations in research and
  result productions
• Multi peer reviews aimed at improving the quality of reviews. This implies more than one author jointly reviewing a
  paper and be held accountable for doing so
• Available framework aimed at creating decentralized journals at low cost
• Freedom of subscription to journals
• Decentralized approach towards curbing predatory practices like plagiarism, idea ownership and registration using
  the blockchain technology.
• Comes also as a social platform that enables interaction between authors, reviewers and the global community.
• Flexible update of manuscripts with a traceability history to the original
• Availability of secured platforms for the sharing of unpublished data with select scientists determined by the author.
  This is aimed at speeding up quality researches
• Voluntary subscription model leading to a competitive and open market model
• Unique identification system for authors and their works, leveraging on ORCID integration into the system and the
  accountability properties of the blockchain. This is aimed at resolving issues bothering on impersonations,
  researchers with identical names, change of names, etc.

HOW ORVIUM HOPES TO ACHIEVE THE ABOVE STATED

With the growing need for an open, transparent and decentralized platform in the prompt dissemination of an integrated research backed results; Ovrium will be basing its platform on;

• Blockchain based technology and smart contracts fuelled by a token called the ORV token. This will enable a public
  and fully traceable record of the publication process at a minimal cost. It enables the almost immutability to hack
  while
  accomplishing set goals, etc.
• Cloud computing to ensure flexibility, scalability and global availability to the platform and services.
• Big data analytics and machine learning to enable advanced analysis to enhance the micro related services to
  facilitate peer reviews, life cycle automation, identify emerging trends, classify papers based on contents, etc.

Summarily; it’s right to say that the sector is a very important one that will be seen to explode with the intervention of Orvium project. We’ll be seeing more about the Orvium intervention in my next article. For now, see the reference section for more detail.

REFERENCES

Website: https://orvium.io/
Whitepaper: https://orvium.docsend.com/view/nvr6ywj
Telegram: https://t.me/orvium
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/orvium.io
Twitter: https://twitter.com/orvium
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Orvium/
Medium: https://medium.com/@orvium
Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3565166
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/orvium
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orvium/