CiterChain

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Problem Statement

Any academic who has published knows what a long, expensive and opaque a process it is. Academic journals have profits that can go into the hundreds of millions for providing nothing more than a platform. In addition, may require researchers to sign over copyright to them, effectively taking the control of their work away from them. We aim to build a DAO with tooling to allow the access to research papers and the peer review process to proceed in a more transparent way which rewards researchers instead of journals.

Solution

We aimed to fork the ocean marketplace (https://github.com/oceanprotocol/market) and integrated Solidity smart contracts via an API to allow researchers to upload their papers and datasets with a corresponding access fee. Due to lack of developer experience we did not manage to implement many of the features that we wanted to.