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A Decentralized Publication System for Open Science using Blockchain and IPFS

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2018
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Science publication and peer review raises concerns about fairness, quality, per-formance, cost or accuracy. The Open Access movements has been unable to fulfill all itspromises, and middlemen publishers can still impose policies and concentrate profits. Thispaper, using emerging distributed technologies such as Blockchain and IPFS, proposes adecentralized publication system for open science. It provides transparent governance, adistributed reviewer reputation system, and open access by-design. The paper concludesreviewing the open challenges of such approach.
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