The scientific world is one of advanced fields in the whole of academia and it is one of the fields which experience a high influx of new ideas based on current researches. It is no news in the scientific field that a knowledge that might exist today would be nullified tomorrow based on recent developments and researches that have been made in that particular study. This high rate at which information is changed and revised within the scientific industry makes it very lucrative for its publishers.
The scientific industry is one of biggest publishing industry in the world since science is changing at almost any time of the day and this requires researchers to stay up on their toes and revise their publications based on the new information that are being brought on board. Scientist in general are very discipline when it comes to their work and publications within the scientific publications because most scientist want to be honoured for their work done.
Most scientist do their best to come out with great information which they would want to publish but sometimes the struggle that the current scientific publication system provides make it quite rigid for some scientist to come out with their work. When this happens, society is deprived of the new information that might have been contained in that publication.
CHALLENGES FACING THE SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATION SYSTEM
The challenges below have slowed down the progress of the scientific industry for quite sometime but I guess it is time to let people know about the unfair and unflexible systems within the scientific industry so that people can embrace the change that Orvium offers the Scientific Publication.
Loss of rights by Authors
Research work done by authors need to be licensed under corporate institutions but is so heart breaking that sometimes some of these institutions take ownership of the content of scientific authors and claim ownership of the work by holding copyrights of the research work instead of the scientific author who actually made the content. This unfair situation does not allow the community to award some authors for their creativity and innovation within the scientific industry.
To add more insults to injury, because authors lose the license rights of their work it takes a very long time for their work to be published as the Publication industry now determines when the research journal is going to be published.
Expensive Publication Expenses
The world is currently under a whole lot of economical hardship and this situation is being experienced by most people. In addition to this, scientific research work requires huge amount of money which is funded by most government of countries. One would be shocked how much is spent by most government of nations in the scientific research and the government has to bear this cost together with other impressing financial needs of that country. In such cases then you might well as know that there is the some diversion of funds from national development in the funding of expensive scientific industry.
Unfair Publication System
The Publication industry has its own stages through which every research work of authors needs to go through before they are published to the community and the world at large but the current publication system is not the one that favours authors at all. The system only favours some authors probably due to their fame or the number of books that they might have already published hence being able to generate much income from their work. Though I agree the industry needs to make money out of their published work let’s not forget that we need to have a better and fair system that would review the work of scientific authors.
The Spread of Poor Quality Work
The lack of a fair and just review process has led to the increase in poor quality work that is being published out there and let’s not forger science is one of the fields whose trend of knowledge is always changing because of how new developments tend to come forth. If the due diligence is not done and poor-quality work are sent into the public stream it goes a long way to mislead people in their daily lives.
It is against this drop back that Orvium proposes to launch a Scientific Decentralized Platform for the regulating of all scientific publications.
Scientific Publication as presented by Orvium
The blockchain is one of the finest products of technology which is being admired by several people and hence many institution and corporations have decided to run its system on it. The blockchain technology is admired by many because of certain features that it possesses and some of these are its high security system, the use of smart contract in conducting very fast transactions etc. With the help of this decentralized technology Orvium has come about with the following solution for the Scientific Industry:
Refined Scientific Journals
The open source decentralized platform of Orvium would put in a just and fair peer review process that would ensure research work of scientific authors come out to be the best. The platform would reward reviewers for their diligent work done and this would serve as a motivation for peer review performers to do a great and excellent job to ensure that the best of research journals is published for the public.
To accomplish this members who would be engaging in the peer review would have access to the research data which would assist them to make fine judgements concerning the work yet to be published. Again, this review is going to be done by several people to ensure there are no bias in the review process.
Full Ownership by Authors
Previously, some of the publication industries tend to own license rights of the work of authors but Orvium frowns upon such act and hence would create a platform that would give back the rights of research work to the authors. By so doing authors can determine the economic value of their research work and earn majority of their proceeds that would be generated from their work. This platform would help put scientific authors back on their feet as they would be also be rewarded by their individual contribution the scientific community and the world at whole.
TOKENS
The native token on this decentralized platform is the ORV Token which members have to have in their possession in order to have access to the services that the platform offers. Not only that but members would also have the opportunity to earn the ORV tokens through their contribution to the platform. Please refer to the Token Economics in the whitepaper as to how members can earn the ORV Token and how it is going to be used on the platform.
ROADMAP
Please refer to the whitepaper to get the entire details of the roadmap an dhow the development team plans to carry out this project to great success.
ROADSHOW
The Orvium Team would organize these road show events to help explain the Orvium platform to potential investors so please do well to pass by when you happen to be in the locations stated below.
TEAM MEMBERS
This project is backed by by a group of hardworking and enthusiastic members who have gained in-depth knowledge in their various fields of discipline. With their skills and knowledge they are going to secure this project’s success for all its noble investors. Below are a few of the team members please refer to the website or whitepaper to get to know the entire team behind this project.
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