Abstract
The purpose of this proposal is to create a platform for decentralized academic journal. Our main aim is going to decrease editor's or publisher's effect on decision making process on the manuscript's publication process.
Our team has 4 members currently. We, as the creators of this proposal, are working as researchers at various universities in Turkey. In my whole career, i see that academic journals is affiliated with their publisher. These publishers are strong and powerful in industry. Such as Routledge, Taylor-Francis or Thomson-Reuters. While the editors are strcitly dependent to these companies, i think we could not talk about "academic freedom" at the moment. They choose the manuscripts that will be published considering their interests or market's care.
We will end this pressure in academic world. In our platform, there is not going to be an editor. For example, if our journal is subjected on Computer Science, referees will be selected by the academic staff on Computer Science all around the world. This step will be done by simple voting system. Academicians who wanted to involve in this process, will be a candidate for referee position. The author of manuscript is going to pay little fee for review process. This fee will be divided in referees who had evaluated the manuscript.
DAJT will be the fuel of Decentralized Academic Journals Platforms. DAJT will be distributed through an ICO. Once the development phase has been ended, DAJT will be listed on an exchange. A researcher who want to publish his/her manuscript in one of DAJ is required to purchase DAJT. Thereafter he would pay the journal fee with DAJT. Collected DAJT will be distrubuted to reviewers.
Further discussion may be required for this process. However i decide to open a pre-ann topic and see the impression.
ICO is planned to start in 1st May 2017. In this phase, we are open to private investors who'd like to support us in beginning. Feel free to write here or pm me if you have any questions.
I also works as a researcher. I am also a reviewer for some academic journals.
Your idea is interesting, but more detailed may be required to consider and discuss.