A much-awaited transparent platform for scientific publications

Introduction

The world is what it is because of our scientific developments. For better or worse, we are bound to our scientific equipment and most of our lives will revolve around working with them. Ever since the 19^th^ century, the world has shifted from its superstitions to science and reason and the development has only risen ever since. A major part of this development was the research publications. These publications are what that keep our research and development industry going. As scientists and researchers conduct their tasks, they are required to cover all of their experiments and research procedures, its outcomes and failures and publish the results. This allows for a global research and development industry to work in harmony as one and not as a segmented community.

These publications are the means for researchers to share their research and discuss with fellow researchers, learn from their mistakes and research and increase productivity. However, the research publication industry is not a very welcoming one. Many times the copyrights and patents are taken over by publishers instead of the researchers or the authors. Further, faulty publications, false claims, and biased reviews are common in the industry.

This makes the whole research industry inefficient. Researchers do not share and publicise their reports in the fear of losing any claim or copyrights to their work. This result is segmented research, one researcher could be stuck at an already solved but unpublished problem/research. The industry must realize that the growth of mankind and sustention of the planet's resources is dependent on scientific research and development, and the industry must work together as one for efficient development.

Over the years many efforts have been made for the betterment of the global scientific community but hardly has there been an impactful development on the matter. So, what can be done? Blockchain.

Blockchain is one of the most secure means of holding data and as a matter of fact all the data is traceable and transparent. That is if the researchers publish their research via the blockchain, they can rest assured that their paper and research will always be their own. Data once uploaded to the blockchain is there forever- it is transparent and unchangeable. So, if a research paper is linked to a researcher's profile, the researcher will have a permanent claim to that research.

The Orvium platform

Orvium is a blockchain based start-up that aims to create a secure and open scientific publication platform for the researchers across the globe. The platform will be a secure means to share your research with the world and still have a claim on your research. This is one of the most attractive features of the blockchain -- transparency and unparalleled security, and Orvium aims to use it to its fullest.

The Orvium platform will be better than traditional publications market given its security and rights policy and it could very well be a go-to place for publishing research in the future. The platform will have a feature like -

• Manuscript submissions

• Copyright and licensing

• Peer-review

Orvium token and ICO details:

Orvium will use the Ethereum's ERC-20 token ORV to fuel the platform. The ORV tokens can be used by platform users to reward fellow researchers for their work, paid by researchers for copyrights and licensing.

Token Economics:

Token: ORV

Price: 1 ORV = 0.1 USD

Platform: Ethereum

Accepting currencies: BTC/XBT, ETH, USD, CHF, EUR, SGD, DKK, GBP

Hard cap: 20,000,000 USD

The platform will have a bounty system and special prices for early investors.

Conclusion:

Given the fraudulent services and the bogus information available online. There has to be a regulating party that ensures that no man's efforts end in vain and what better regulating party than the people using a transparent platform, Orvium. Orvium is a great idea to benefit the scientific world and bring the researchers together as one community and not just a segmented group.

Given the properties of the blockchain, the idea is not completely unique, there have been other start-ups with similar objectives and addressing similar problems. Orvium will have a massive awaiting competition once it is up in the market.

Website - https://orvium.io/

Whitepaper - https://orvium.docsend.com/view/nvr6ywj

ANN - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3535259.0

Telegram - https://t.me/orvium

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