Towards a Decentralized Publication System: A Proposal Using Blockchain and P2P Technologies

Science publication and peer review raises concerns about fairness, quality, performance, cost or accuracy. The Open Access movements has been unable to fulfill all its promises, and middlemen publishers can still impose policies and concentrate profits. This work, using emerging distributed technol...

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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor: Jacynycz García, Viktor
Formato: tesis de maestría
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/19975
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/19975
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:004(043.3)
Peer review
Reputation network
Open acess
Blockchain
Ethereum
IPFS
Revisión por Pares
Red de Reputación
Open Access
Informática (Informática)
1203.17 Informática
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Resumo:Science publication and peer review raises concerns about fairness, quality, performance, cost or accuracy. The Open Access movements has been unable to fulfill all its promises, and middlemen publishers can still impose policies and concentrate profits. This work, using emerging distributed technologies such as Blockchain and IPFS, proposes a decentralized publication system for open science called Decentralized Science1 . It provides transparent governance, a distributed reviewer reputation system, and open access by-design.