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RE: Steem could transform scientific research culture - making research free, fun, legal and profitable!

in #steem7 years ago (edited)

I think our current model for scientific research has many problems and a lot of new models have been cogitated for quite some time (specially now with internet and blockchain technology) but it's definitely NOT an easy task (and I don't think there will ever be a one-model-fits-all solution).

You have some interesting ideas that can certainly evolve to something great. I believe any successful model for producing science should try to accomplish the following principles:

1. Free to read: science should belong to humanity and everybody (scientist or not) should have access to knowledge from anywhere in the globe free-of-charge. This is something that Open Access journals and recently Scihub have been trying to do.

2. Free to publish: scientists should not have to pay for publishing their discoveries, it's an unnecessary cost for them. There must be an economically sustainable way to store and maintain the content produced.

3. NO profits: scientific knowledge should not be a product. Scientists should NOT profit from their discoveries.

4. Quality: there must be a way to review scientific content produced. It must be economically sustainable without encouraging any kind of corruption (that is VERY hard).

5. Stop plagiarism and wrong content: a model must be able to discourage false discoveries and plagiarisms and also be able to alert people about it.

6. Credit: Authors and funding institutions must always be credited.

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