## Problem
In the scientific publication industry, 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. 

## Solution 
**The DeSci Journals enables communities to operate as digital cooperatives for publishing scientific and technical content.**
The DeSci Journals v2 | A solution for decentralized scientific journals. The DeSci Journals simplifies scientific journal creation enabling communities to operate as digital cooperatives for publishing highly skilled content. 
By creating a scientific publications platform called The DeSci Journals which will empower collaborative creation of scientific publications, leveraging web3 principles and technologies, through their platform's digital cooperative model. These communities and their peer-reviewed publications will maintain 100% of their copyrights, share gains and monetize the work of their highly skilled content creators, such as scientists, and technical professionals. These communities and their peer-reviewed publications will maintain 100% of their copyrights, share gains and monetize the work of their highly skilled content creators, such as scientists, and technical professionals.  
## Roadmap
1.	**Smart Contracts Development (v3) -** Develop and implement smart contracts that seamlessly incorporate percentage royalties into the submission and peer-review workflow. 
1.	**Validate the peer-review distribution payment process**.
1.	**Integrate digital currencies payments**.
1.	**Study and implement tokenomics for the $desci tokens**.
1.	**Analyze and check on the possibility for the acceptance of other communities’ tokens and insert this analysis in the deScier tokenomics**.

1.	**Smart Contracts Audit (v3) –** Audit developed and implemented smart contracts for security and bugs.
1.	**NFT paper Minting (v3) –** Develop and mint scientific papers as NFTs for the Journals within The DeSci Journals platform, creating a dynamic and market-ready repository.
1.	**Marketplace Development (v4) –** Develop a NFT paper marketplace as secondary market.
1.	**Automate Online Manuscript Submission (v4) –** Implement an automated system for online manuscript submission, streamlining the publication process.

## Timeline
Finances permitting, coupled with successful funding, this is the expected timeline. Utilizing the grant funds, we will strategically allocate resources to achieve the following objectives:


1.	May 2024 -June 2024 (Month 1 to 2 after receiving funds) - Smart Contracts Development (v3) - Develop and implement smart contracts that seamlessly incorporate percentage royalties into the submission and peer-review workflow.
1.	July 2024 (Month 3 after receiving funds) - Smart Contracts Audit (v3) – Audit developed and implemented smart contracts for security and bugs.
1.	June 2024 - July 2024 (Month 2 to 3 after receiving funds) - NFT paper Minting (v3) – Develop and mint scientific papers as NFTs for the Journals within The DeSci Journals platform, creating a dynamic and market-ready repository.
1.	August 2024 – November 2024 (Month 4 to 7 after receiving funds) - Marketplace Development (v4) – Develop a NFT paper marketplace as secondary market.
1.	November 2024 – April 2025 (Month 7 to 12 after receiving funds) - Automate Online Manuscript Submission (v4)- Implement an automated system for online manuscript submission, streamlining the publication process.

1.	December 2024 – April 2025 (Month 8 to 12 after receiving funds) - Explore privacy ID options, including for instance, the utilization of technologies such as ZPK and POAPs (v5).

1.	November 2024 – April 2025 (Month 7 to 12 after receiving funds) - Establish mechanisms for building author reputation within the decentralized framework (v5).