Will Blockchain Revolutionize Scholarly Journal Publishing? - The Chronicle of Higher Education

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-11-13

Summary:

"Since the 1990s, some academic netizens have predicted that open access will upend scholarly journal publishing, yet an oligopoly still dominates the $25-billion industry.

Orvium, a European start-up, recently joined those taking on the giant players. It offers a publishing and business plan based on blockchain — a coding structure that embeds origins and changes within a file. The format will allow for open-access or other licensing models to be determined by each client journal’s editors. The company’s ultimate objective is "to be the leading publication platform for the research community while returning the benefits of science to society."

Manuel Martin, Orvium’s 38-year-old CEO and cofounder, said in a phone interview from Geneva that the company is in a period of beta testing and should be operational in 2019. A data scientist who has worked with CERN and NASA, Martin, who was born in Spain, said that he and his fellow cofounders, Antonio Romero and Roberto Rabasco, started the company to make journal publishing cheaper, faster, and more transparent...."

Link:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Will-Blockchain-Revolutionize/245073

From feeds:

Blockchain and Decentralization for Library and Information Science » griffey's bookmarks
Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.publishing oa.blockchain oa.orvium oa.business_models oa.gold oa.journals oa.scholcomm

Date tagged:

11/13/2018, 14:33

Date published:

11/13/2018, 07:17