Some experts say that the world science publishing is quite a profitable business domain. Nevertheless, 50%-70% of research publications are in the hands of five publishers. Amazingly, their profit has already exceeded that of Apple, Google, and Amazon. For instance, in 2015, the total turnover of the scientific researches market valued at about $25 bln.

However, this market is still using an inconvenient system which is quite unhandy for the authors. It usually involves 3 stages:

1. government organizations establish the research topic;
2. some scientists volunteer to do the work;
3. after the work is done, it is sent to the governmental scientific organizations. 

So, it’s not surprising that authors constantly criticize this system, as it is rather ineffective for them. 

In the multi-million industry, the creators get really small shares, as most of them are taken by the distribution publishing agencies. Moreover, this system blocks the research potential and stops the necessary revolutionary changes in the society. 

To sum up, the science publishing industry has a lot of problems nowadays: 

High expenses for publication; Publishers and authors don’t have most of their rights bidden; The publication processes are too long; The review of the project is usually biased; The authors don’t get much recognition, and they are not rewarded; A lot of journals with low-quality content is continuing to spread.

Orvium The perfect platform for scientific papers, and research

Orvium is a platform able to manage scientific works or researches and related information. Nowadays, the importance of such publications is underestimated, and it may bring a huge income to scientific communities. Orvium eliminates problems in this area and improves the quality of works.

Advantages Of Orvium:

• Low price for publications;
• Copyright protection;
• A possibility of copyright transfer;
• Combining research data and the results of work;
• Reviews sale for tokens;
• Cost-effective remuneration for publications;
• Voluntary subscription to the journal;
• Excluding the possibility of conflict situations on the basis of plagiarism.

Like in many other domains related to the content, the situation is quite unfair. The authors of the content don’t get much for their work and stay underestimated, while all the credit goes to publishers.

Orvium goals and what is the ORV token for?

It presents a new and transparent business model for research publication distribution worldwide based on blockchain technologies. This platform has a special cryptocurrency: ORV, designed to maintain partnerships between authors, institutions, magazine owners, readers, and others.

Orvium’s goal is to make the publication distribution process in the scientific community fair and eliminate all the relevant problems on the market, arising at all stages of the publication life cycle.

No need to say that the traditional publication model is strongly protested by scientists and researchers, as it’s usually related to the corruption and the funds' leakage that were primarily allocated by the state for scientific researches. It’s familiar to the authors as a triple-payment system. Orvium offers to minimize all the expenses and stop this incredible waste of resources. In addition, there are ways of returning profits to both authors and financiers.

Advantages

Orvium proposes some solutions to overcome current problems in publishing:

• Significant cost reduction with the help of the Orvium platform;
• The improvement of existing business models concerning content distribution;
• Relevant domains financing;
• Open source code needed for author’s research.

How will the platform work and reward its users?

The mechanism of Orvium’s work is quite simple.

The author sends his research to the platform. Before entering, it has to be verified by Proof of Authorship Existence mechanism in order to exclude the possibility of plagiarism. After the research reaches the platform, it may go either to the reviewers who need this publication for their work, or directly to readers. The author is rewarded with tokens, and the platform gets a really small fee for its use.

At the moment of sending the article to the site, the author himself sets the number of ORV tokens, which will pass to the people participating in the peer reviews of this work. ORV tokens will be received by reviewers only after their work is accepted. Pricing policy based on the current market value will be determined by the authors.

That’s it. Each participant of this project will receive a number of ORV tokens and will be able to fully dispose of platform services with them (for example, to promote new articles). The scientists writing the articles will have the opportunity to offer ORV tokens for the article reviews.

ICO details

• Token name: ORV.
• Token price 1 ORV = 0.1 USD.
• Hardcap: $20 mln.
• Token ERC-20
• You can pay in ETH

Conclusion

Proceeding from the above, I want to summarize. Before us is a very promising project that covers one of the most important areas, this is Science. Scientific research needs blockchain technology to solve the most important problems, and Orvium does it!

Having studied the technical document and got acquainted with the team, I can confidently say that they have a great future! There is a high probability that ORV tokens can reach the best exchanges.

What do you think of Orvium?

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