Orvium - Transparent Science Data Blockchain

By introducing a blockchain-based framework to manage scholarly publications effectively, Orvium aims to overcome the problems of the scientific publishing industry.

How does Orvium work?

Giving researchers and scientists a complete control over the lifecycle of scholarly publications and making the processes fully transparent is the goal of Orvium. The process behind how the platform works is simple; first of all, users will have to register on the platform to use it. Researchers who wish to use Orvium can use the platform’s unique ORCID to authenticate their accounts. By confirming the wallet ownership, the ORCID of a user is verified. This is done by sending a transaction to the blockchain using a random key hence confirming that the ORCID belongs to the respective user. Authors can submit their manuscripts to the platform after the registration process is done. The reason behind the uniqueness of this process is users can use ORV tokens to encourage and incentivize peer reviews for their manuscript. The ability to choose the number of paid reviews to be done and the number of ORV tokens to be paid for each review is with authors. Once they fully complete the review for the manuscript, the reviewers will be paid for the allocated amount of ORV per review. If there are no tokens available to be claimed, the author can decide whether he or she wants to reward any reviewers left with ORV tokens.
Authors have the ability to share their research data at any time as well as having complete control over the licensing and copyright models—a feature that empowers authors significantly compared to the biased traditional system. Orvium presents a lot more advantages to the scientific community and society, some of which are listed below:

• Zero-delay publication
• Gray literature support
• Transparent peer review and reviewer recognition
• Versioning support and a fully traceable lifecycle

The Orvium Token Sale Details

• Token name: ORV
• Token base: Ethereum
• Token Type: ERC20
• Token supply: 379,000,000 (max supply)
• Available for sale: 227,000,000 ORV (60%)
• Token sale target: $20,000,000
• Token exchange rate: $0.10 = 1 ORV

Conclusion

Orvium targets to create a platform of scientific publications and other relevant data that enable researchers and research institutions to be able to manage the life cycle of the scientific data they publish and benefit from it in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.