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(Months)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "**Problem statement**\nCurrently, it is right to say that the scientific publication industry hinders the advance of human knowledge. \nThe scientific publication industry is a perverse oligopoly that generates 26Bi USD/ year for its own good. Authors (scientists), reviewers and most editors (also scientists) do not get paid for working in the peer-reviewing process of papers for their science journals. Authors pay for publishing, pay for open access and moreover, give away their copyright. Universities and Research Institutions pay outrageous subscriptions so that alumni and staff have access to journals.\n\nScience journals have outrageously high publication fees. These fees range from 2 to 6k USD for 1 paper, some charge 10k-15 USD/ paper. \n\nPaying attention only in their profits, science journals: \n- act as filters to what they believe is high quality research worth publishing, \n- use high rejection rates which are uncoupled from merit, significance, and quality, \n- take a long time from submission to publishing, \n- undermining the expectations of the scientific community and the development of the human society. \n\n\n**Solution**\nThe DeSci Journal is a community-based, web3-enabled scientific journal where scientists can collaboratively work in the peer-review process, keep their copyright, and share financial gains using smart contracts.\n\n**Roadmap and timeline for implementation**\n1. April-May 2023 - Seek for Editors and Reviewers; collaborate with decentralized science platforms and DAOs.\n2. April-May 2023 - Decide for privacy ID and reputation building (holonym using zpk, POAPs).\n3. May-July 2023 \u2013 Publish NFT science white paper. \n4. July-August 2023 - Validate peer-reviewing payment process based on $desci or % royalties.\n5. August-October 2023 \u2013 Develop and implement smart contract(s) with % royalties in the submission and peer-review flow.\n6. October-December 2023 \u2013 NFT will be arranged in the DeSci Journal. NFTs can be displayed in marketplaces such as OpenSea. \n7. December 2023- January 2024 \u2013 Automate online manuscript submission.", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe your project in a few paragraphs (ideally including a problem statement, solution, roadmap, and timeline for implementation)", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The DeSci Journal:\n- provides an alternative tool for scientific publication,\n- uses the power of a community of highly qualified talents working collaboratively on fast and reliable peer-review sharing financial gains to produce a scientific journal of outstanding quality and impeccable layout,\n- substantially decreases scientific paper submission fees,\n- allows for sharing of fees during the peer-review process,\n- properly assigns copyright to scientists whose scientific content was created by them as Authors on the scientific papers they produced,\n- uses web3 technologies such as digital wallets and smart contracts to automate and speed up publishing,\n- publishes scientific papers as NFTs guaranteeing anteriority, ownership, royalties, and portability,\n- democratizes scientific knowledge.", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "**Milestones and funds allocation**\n1.\tAlpha NFT for scientific articles \u2013 70% for blockchain developers.\n2.\tWeb3 UX/ UI for an automated online manuscript submission \u2013 20% for design and development.\n3.\tMarketing \u2013 5% for paid promotion on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram \n4.\tPromotion \u2013 5% for short trips (gas, food, accommodation) for meetings, talks and presential events.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "address", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds (i.e. DeSci GR15) using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here.", "questionId": 11, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "cOPZLu2dUajGUwkIjONAdaP62lDvXyI/jl8qfkBNGYVcloTucG/Ipy6bWU3EMZTw/UqImCcMc44vevKqBE2Lzg==", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "93a3d4385c4ab5bda8d9d351eb8989617b31408f885a567c8fceaf7e569f327da6f5e35ec87592008bdf5b759813b304769df7bf2ea06c97b77e85cea629bf2b30f2fe68b23611d3f149a8ea0adddb3076ab35e8beb07a8ac566907ae7af79927ece690a2ef01d33011d083b08831d7b21fe1819a3a865c7c94ca23c016b76c100000000000000204db67ce169958353fd0b46eb16f6aa604a3b933b8845176851bfdb3d650bd9468179d1dbaeef24d081d3f973ab002394"}}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "**GR15 \u2013 What was made with funds contributed**\n**deScier REPORT April 3rd, 2023**\n\n**TL;DR**\n**Foreword and Foremost**\n\u00b7   The Funding provided by you, our Grantors, during GR15 was a turning point for our decentralized science project, then named SciDAO.\n\u00b7   SciDAO aimed to provide a solution for the highly monopolized, extremely unfair scientific publications\u2019 industry.\n\u00b7   It gave us instant access to meaning and authority and we cannot thank you enough for your contribution. Having participated in Gitcoin Round 15, the first ever to include #DeSci and being able to attract attention and contributions positively impacted us with a strong sense of belonging. And this was from day zero.\n\n**A bit of history**\n\u00b7   SciDAO was among the 4 projects to win a contest of more innovative during Blockchain Rio in September 2022.\n\u00b7   As a result, SciDAO entered the Accelerated network, a DAO\u2019s accelerator.\n\u00b7   There was a merge with another DAO and we changed our name.\n\u00b7   On October 11th, 2022 deScier was created.\n\n**Use of contributions and matched funds**\n1) We have been very busy. There has been a lot of activities on deScier. Whenever possible, activities were conducted voluntarily to make a better use of funds.\n2) A landing page at https://descier.science was successfully created.\n3) A request for comments-RFC page was created at https://publishing.descier.science for testing the editorial flow used by the Open Journal System-OJS.\n4) Another RFC page was created to serve as forum and for team-writing of deScier white papers at http://discuss.descier.science\n5) Some members of our Genesis team have been engaging on networking chats, talks and events\u2019 participation either online or presential. \n6) An Alpha version for a decentralized scientific journal publication we called The DeSci Journal was launched in the last week of March 2023.\n7)  DeSci Journal\u00ae was registered in the blockchain hash: https://polygonscan.com/tx/0x3c292bd7e3d434cee175315371af40ebdf8d9f7ef78a912da9eecf8bfa2f855c\n8) To increase awareness on DeSci, we have applied and succeed in participating in the 2023 University of Campinas-Unicamp Permanent Forums. Unicamp ranks the 2nd in Brazil, 3rd in Latin America and among the first 200 worldwide (https://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/noticias/2022/10/13/ranking-mantem-unicamp-como-segunda-melhor-universidade-do-brasil).\n9) deScier will open Unicamp\u2019s permanent forums on May 23rd, 2023 with a forum entitled  \u201cOpen and Decentralized Science: paradigms for research, development, democratization and access to science\u201d https://www.foruns.unicamp.br/noticias/calendario-dos-foruns-2023\n10) We have been invited to organize 2 DeSci satellite events.\n11) The first satellite event will happen at University of S\u00e3o Paulo-USP on June 21st, 2023. We called this event DeSci Americas\u00ae and will invite members of the DeSci community from Brazil and abroad.\n12) The second satellite event will happen at ExpoMAG-Rio de Janeiro on September 13th, 2023. We called this event DeSci Summit\u00ae and will invite members of the DeSci community from Brazil and abroad.", "hidden": false, "question": "If this project participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones since the last round.", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "None", "hidden": false, "question": "Is there any other information you would like to share about your project, previous work, other project affiliations, or potential conflicts of interest? 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Create a decentralized scientific journal in which the scientist, as a creator of highly relevant scientific content, can maintain his copyright, share knowledge while making financial gains. Change the way science is published.\n\n______\n\n**Problem that someone must solve:** Scientific publication today does not meet the needs of either scientists or society.\n\n**What are we building:** We are building The DeSci Journal, a web3 repository where scientists can publish scientific papers as NFTs and earn money. The DeSci Journal is a decentralized scientific journal where scientists can collaboratively work in the peer-review process, keep their copyright and share financial gains using smart contracts.\n\n**Why:** Currently, the scientific publication industry hinders the advance of human knowledge. Today, scientific publishing houses and their journals have outrageously high publication fees (2-6k USD/ per paper; some charge 10k USD/ paper), act as filters to what they believe is high quality research worth publishing, use high rejection rates which are uncoupled from merit, significance, and quality, take a long time from submission to publishing, undermining the expectations of the scientific community and the development of human society. As if that weren't enough, Authors, Reviewers and most Editors do not get paid for working in the peer-reviewing process. Authors pay for publishing, pay for open access and moreover, give away copyright. Universities and Research Institutions pay subscriptions so that their staff to have access to journals.\n\n**When:** Now. Late March 2023 we launched a \u201ccall for papers\u201d for the first edition of the DeSci Journal.\n\n**How:** We will use:\n1.\tthe momentum of the decentralized science-DeSci movement,\n2.\tthe extensive scientific experience of the team and,\n3.\tthe power of community,\nto increase awareness and bring web3 technologies which can solve issues on i) paying excessive fees for publishing, ii) paying for open access, iii) being forced to give up copyright, iv) our universities and research institutes paying outrageous annual subscriptions and v) not receiving for highly skilled content,  present in todays\u2019 scientific publishing industry.\n\n**What:**\n1.\tTest MVP. Speak to potential authors about the solution of scientific papers publishing using NFT; understanding needs and features needed; decide for science niches for Alpha tests. \n2.\tDecide for privacy ID and reputation building (holonym using zpk, POAPs).\n3.\tPublish the NFT white paper. Reach out for Editors and Reviewers.\n4.\tValidate peer-reviewing payment process based on a stable coin, $desci tokens, % royalties.\n5.\tDevelop and implement smart contracts with % royalties in the submission and peer-review flow.\n6.\tBuild The DeSci Journal. \n7. NFTs will be arranged in the DeSci Journal. NFTs can be displayed in marketplaces such as OpenSea.\n8.\tAutomate online manuscript submission.\n\n [The cover of the first issue of the DeSci Journal](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xs3PNY9KP9sYBCMSCK7nAmWs01oiR7i_/view?usp=share_link)\n\n**Impact:** Create a web3 alternative to the current industry of scientific publication. Create a decentralized scientific journal in which the scientist, as a creator of highly relevant scientific content, can maintain his copyright, share knowledge while making financial gains. Change the way science is published.\n\n\n____\nGR15 \u2013 What was made with funds contributed \n| deScier REPORT April 3rd, 2023\n\n**TL;DR**\nForeword and Foremost\n- The Funding provided by you, our Grantors, during GR15 was a turning point for our decentralized science project, then named SciDAO.\n- SciDAO aimed to provide a solution for the highly monopolized, extremely unfair scientific publications\u2019 industry.\n- It gave us instant access to meaning and authority and we cannot thank you enough for your contribution. \n- Having participated in Gitcoin Round 15, the first ever to include #DeSci and being able to attract attention and contributions positively impacted us with a strong sense of belonging. And this was from day zero.\n\n**A bit of history**\n- SciDAO was among the 4 projects to win a contest of more innovative during Blockchain Rio in September 2022.\n- As a result, SciDAO entered the Accelerated network, a DAO\u2019s accelerator.\n- There was a merge with another DAO and we changed our name.\n- On October 11th, 2022 deScier was created.\n\n**Use of contributions and matched funds**\n1) We have been very busy. There has been a lot of activities on deScier. Whenever possible, activities were conducted voluntarily to make a better use of funds.\n2) A landing page at https://descier.science was successfully created.\n3) A request for comments-RFC page was created at https://publishing.descier.science for testing the editorial flow used by the Open Journal System-OJS.\n4) Another RFC page was created to serve as forum and for team-writing of deScier white papers at http://discuss.descier.science\n5) Some members of our Genesis team have been engaging on networking chats, talks and events\u2019 participation either online or presential. \n6) An Alpha version for a decentralized scientific journal publication we called The DeSci Journal was launched in the last week of March 2023.\n7)  DeSci Journal\u00ae was registered in the blockchain hash: https://polygonscan.com/tx/0x3c292bd7e3d434cee175315371af40ebdf8d9f7ef78a912da9eecf8bfa2f855c\n8) To increase awareness on DeSci, we have applied and succeed in participating in the 2023 University of Campinas-Unicamp Permanent Forums. Unicamp ranks the 2nd in Brazil, 3rd in Latin America and among the first 200 worldwide (https://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/noticias/2022/10/13/ranking-mantem-unicamp-como-segunda-melhor-universidade-do-brasil).\n9) deScier will open Unicamp\u2019s permanent forums on May 23rd, 2023 with a forum entitled  \u201cOpen and Decentralized Science: paradigms for research, development, democratization and access to science\u201d https://www.foruns.unicamp.br/noticias/calendario-dos-foruns-2023\n10) We have been invited to organize 2 DeSci satellite events.\n11) The first satellite event will happen at University of S\u00e3o Paulo-USP on June 21st, 2023. We called this event DeSci Americas\u00ae and will invite members of the DeSci community from Brazil and abroad.\n12) The second satellite event will happen at ExpoMAG-Rio de Janeiro on September 13th, 2023. 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