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Science and research is basically everything in this world. The research done by scientists represents the knowledge of a country, and adds value to a country. Every country takes pride in its research and discoveries and earns the respect of not only its own citizens, but also of other nations. Science is not divided. It is meant for the well-being of everyone, globally.
From newly-joined college students to veterans who have been doing research for several years, every individual who loves science and does research, publishes their workings and findings for other people to read and use for their own research. The research community is a closely-knit, dependent community where every person helps every other person directly or indirectly. There are several national and international level journals which let researchers publish their work if deemed valid and reputable. These publications are made available to other people based on their subscriptions.
**Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. - Zora Neale Hurston**
The scientific publishing industry is a very profitable industry that has a fairly awkward economic architecture. Governments fund research. Researchers and scientists funded by the government then volunteer to review the research work. Finally, the publishers sell the product of the research back to the government institutions and universities. This system has some pretty obvious shortcomings that hinders the growth and development of science. Researchers have to pay huge publication costs to the journal publishers to make their work public, and even then the publishers have more rights over the content than the scientists who actually researched and wrote the content. Even accessing these published papers require paid subscriptions by the other scientists who wish to refer another person's work to help with their own research.
With the intention of overcoming the disadvantages in the current working of the scientific publishing industry, Orvium has developed a blockchain-based decentralised platform for the distribution and management of scholarly publications and their associated data. Scientists can publish their own work, request peers for opinions, review their peers' work, publish data used in their work and refer other people's work and data to help with their own research using this platform, thus creating scope for collaboration amongst peers in an easy way.
**Orvium Disruption**
Orvium provides a decentralised platform for researchers to publish their research papers and related data. It gives rise to a competitive market that is unbiased and transparent, in addition to being decentralised. Because of its decentralisation, it can handle any amount of data and any number of users.
The work submitted by a researcher to the market is made available immediately for referrals and reviews. The researcher gets full copyright ownership to the publication with independent, immutable, timestamped proof of ownership using Smart Contracts. Scientists can view the full lifecycle of a project, from its submission to all of its peer reviews, positive or otherwise. This is made possible through the use of blockchains to store the trace of the lifecycle of the publication.
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Researchers can publish not only the manuscripts of their work, but also the data that they used in their research, so that it can be used by other scientists for their own research, all while maintaining sole ownership and authorship. Thus, by using blockchain technology, Orvium provides a platform for a collaborative environment for scientific research.
The Orvium token, called ORV, is the utility token used for availing services of the platform and providing a means of maintaining cost-effective journals with rewards and recognition for all participants. ORV is the basic component of the blockchain technology in the collaborative platform and plays an important role in enabling self-sufficiency and security of the ecosystem.
**Successful Science**
The Orvium project gives a whole new level of opportunities to scientists and researchers, by using the revolutionary blockchain technology. It uses technology to help science. It addresses a major problem faced by an important community – the research community – and offers an efficient solution to the problem. The project is an innovative application of blockchain technology. With its talented team and powerful investors, the project is undoubtedly capable of being a huge success.
**Website** - [https://orvium.io/](https://orvium.io/)
**Whitepaper** - [https://orvium.docsend.com/view/nvr6ywj](https://orvium.docsend.com/view/nvr6ywj)
**ANN** - [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3535259.0](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3535259.0)
**Telegram** - [https://t.me/orvium](https://t.me/orvium)
**Published by** - jessicalaurenbt
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