The **targeted user group**, or *authors*, consists of individuals and communities conducting scientific research in academia, various industries, and startups across various disciplines. They need a reliable, transparent, and efficient platform to publish and disseminate their work.
The **problem being addressed** is the scientific publication industry, where authors (scientists, professionals and, scholars), reviewers and most editors (also scientists) do not get paid for working in the peer-reviewing process of papers for science journals. Authors: 1) pay for publishing, 2) pay for open access and moreover, 3) **have their copyright expropriated**. Universities and Research Institutions pay shockingly high annual subscription fees so that alumni and staff have access to journals.
Scientific publishing houses and science journals have outrageously high publication fees. These fees range from 2 to 6k USD for 1 paper, some charge 10k-15 USD/ paper. Open access is another 2-4k USD. Currently, it is right to say that the scientific publication industry hinders the advance of human knowledge. 
Paying attention only to their profits, legacy scientific journals: 
•	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, 
•	undermine the expectations of the scientific community and the development of the human society.