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(Months)", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Problem statement. Scientific publishing houses and science journals have outrageously high publication fees. These fees range from 2 to 6k USD for 1 paper, some charge 10k-15 USD/ paper. Open access is another 2-4k USD. Currently, it is right to say that the scientific publication industry hinders the advance of human knowledge. \nPaying attention only to their profits, legacy scientific journals: \n•\tAct as filters to what they believe is high quality research worth publishing;\n•\tuse high rejection rates which are uncoupled from merit, significance, and quality, \n•\ttake a long time from submission to publishing;\n•\tundermine the expectations of the scientific community and the development of the human society;\n•\tauthors (scientists, professionals and, scholars), reviewers and most editors (also scientists) do not get paid for working in the peer-reviewing process of papers for science journals. \n•\tAuthors: 1) pay for publishing, 2) pay for open access and moreover, 3) have their copyright expropriated. \n•\tUniversities and Research Institutions pay shockingly high annual subscription fees so that alumni and staff have access to journals.\n\n\nSolution. A journal-as-a-service publications platform for collaborative creation of technical and scientific publications, leveraging web3 principles and technologies: 100% copyright to authors, different percentages of authorship (as built-in feature) and scientific assets construction (through blockchain registration). \n\n\nRoadmap and Timeline. Our plans for Version 4 focus on building a window showcase for registered projects and ideas, laying the foundation for a decentralized marketplace where researchers and startups can monetize scientific knowledge. This version will introduce a new revenue stream, with the platform earning a small fee on each register transaction while fostering transparent and open exchange (6 months). \nTo achieve these goals, the grant will be used to redesign and integrate the registration platform into the publishing platform, ensuring seamless UI and functionality (2 to 3 months). Additionally for version 4, we will scale up marketing efforts, organizing targeted events, workshops, and community activations to raise awareness and onboard new users (3 to 12 months). Through strategic collaborations, we aim to drive adoption and establish our platform as a leading force in decentralized science innovation, ultimately paving the way for a fully operational scientific marketplace in Version 5.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe your project in a few paragraphs (ideally including a problem statement, solution, roadmap, and timeline for implementation)", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The DeSci Journals contribute to the DeSci ecosystem by providing a decentralized, open-access publishing infrastructure that enhances transparency, accessibility, and collaboration. By leveraging blockchain technology, we ensure that research findings, peer reviews, and metadata remain openly accessible and verifiable, fostering trust and reproducibility. Our platform incentivizes knowledge creators, inventors, scientists and researchers through reputation systems and NFT-minted papers. We integrate with open-source repositories like GitHub and decentralized storage solutions, allowing researchers to directly link and publish code alongside their studies for proper citation. This enables permissionless collaboration, allowing global contributors to expand, fork, and improve open-source projects without institutional gatekeeping. Additionally, we embed open-source licenses and ensure long-term data preservation through decentralized storage, protecting contributions from being lost or paywalled. By facilitating transparent and immutable publishing, we help researchers showcase and validate their work more effectively. Our approach not only supports DeSci development but also strengthens the integrity of scientific research through open peer review. Through marketing efforts and community engagement, we promote the adoption of open science principles and decentralized publishing, making scientific knowledge more accessible, verifiable, and community-driven.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Funds will be used to redesign and integrate the registration platform into the publishing platform, ensuring seamless UI and functionality aiming to build a window showcase for registered projects and ideas, laying the foundation for a decentralized marketplace where researchers and startups can monetize scientific knowledge. This version will introduce a new revenue stream, with the platform earning a small fee on each register transaction while fostering transparent and open exchange. Additionally for version 4, we will scale up marketing efforts, organizing targeted events, workshops, and community activations to raise awareness and onboard new users.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project.", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "arb1:0xfb6460eDF0dAc0D2bca4A2a2bc404Fc8B7990fdB", "hidden": false, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds (i.e. DeSci GR15/ Beta/GG 20DeSci round/GG21 DeSci round) using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here.", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "All updates and milestones are listed on Karma Gap https://gap.karmahq.xyz/project/the-desci-journals-1/grants?tab=overview&grantId=0x5e2ce6fa3a1062905743bf905ab40e9dad86027470de1a6675001e38478ed270 ", "hidden": false, "question": "If this project participated in past DeSci grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones since the last round.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "I am an Operator for the DeSci Rounds Ops Team", "hidden": true, "question": "Is there any other information you would like to share about your project, previous work, other project affiliations, or potential conflicts of interest? 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We use a 1-page with simple and straightforward submission flow for both articles https://platform.desci.reviews/summary/new-document and journals (developed and deployed since version 2) https://platform.desci.reviews/summary/new-journal which is a new much simpler feature when compared to pages long used in traditional scientific journals. We made adding wallets optional.\n\nWe have also introduced features such as the percentage of authorship, which can include a percentage for laboratories, institutions and companies when authors choose paid access when funds go directly to the Author’s (or Authors’) wallet. \n\nFor version 3 we developed a web3 login and papers now can be published as NFTs to push forward a secondary market formation. \n\nBy using The DeSci Journals as platform for their technical and scientific publications which includes conferences an events, individuals and communities will capitalize on its technical merit.  They will also tap into a flourishing ecosystem that aligns with a broader vision for the future of science, building a portfolio of tradable scientific assets.\n\nFor version 4 we aim to redesign and integrate a register platform on the publishing platform for better UI integration with the Publishing Platform aiming to build a window showcase for projects/ ideas registered aiming to create a decentralized marketplace. The aim is to build a window showcase for projects/ ideas registered aiming to create a decentralized marketplace. A pilot marketplace aims to open a new revenue stream for researchers and startups while fostering an ecosystem for transparent and open exchange of scientific knowledge. The platform will earn a fee on each transaction. \n\nDown the road, for version 5, we plan to develop a decentralized marketplace where people can buy, sell, and trade NFTs of scientific papers and other scientific assets. 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