Company: DeSci Labs
Founders: Philipp Koellinger, Sina Iman, Christopher Hill
Website: https://desci.com/
About DeSci Labs
DeSci Labs is the first software engineering company to successfully build an open science publishing infrastructure based on Web3 technology (DeSci Publish). Scientists can share their research on the open, peer-to-peer pre-print network without paywalls or publication charges.
Our mission is to make science open, accessible and transparent by leveraging the strengths of decentralised technology. Currently, scientific knowledge is often siloed and inaccessible to the public and hampered by paywalls and huge publication charges.
DeSci Labs is developing a collaborative and open scientific network where research and data can be shared without restrictions.
This will enable researchers, institutions and citizen scientists to publish, verify and collaborate on scientific work on a decentralised, immutable ledger, ensuring data integrity and transparency. By building a community where scientific papers, data and code are openly available and incentivised through decentralised protocols, we aim to drive more innovation, collaboration and inclusivity in science.
With blockchain’s inherent transparency and permanence, DeSci Publish protects data integrity and enhances reproducibility — an essential element in scientific research.
By integrating tokenomics, we will incentivise contributors to validate and replicate experiments, making scientific discoveries and knowledge more robust and reliable. Researchers are rewarded for their contributions, peer reviewers are compensated for their efforts, and the public gains access to cutting-edge research without the paywalls that currently limit access to scientific literature. Our model fosters a collaborative environment where knowledge sharing is encouraged and rewarded.
In addition, our novelty scores feature – the first objective, mathematical measure of research novelty – calculates the content and context novelty across 250 million papers throughout the scientific literature. Users simply upload their manuscript, data and code and our AI algorithm calculates its novelty in seconds. Authors have a choice to reveal their novelty scores during the journal submission process, giving them a tool to increase their publication chances in journals that value high novelty.
Instead of having separate platforms, DeSci Publish unites data, manuscripts, images and code in one convenient place, making best open science practices easy and rewarding. The peer-to-peer network storing content shared on DeSci Publish is protected from link rot and content drift, thanks to a unique digital fingerprint of each version of every file. Our technology facilitates long-term availability and accessibility, and combats data silos.
By eliminating the traditional barriers to knowledge sharing, DeSci Labs can be the catalyst for creating a more collaborative and transparent research environment that works together to solve the world’s pressing scientific challenges.
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