%0 Conference Paper
%A Tenorio Fornés, Antonio
%A Jacynycz García, Viktor
%A David Llop, David
%A Sánchez Ruiz-Granados, Antonio A.
%A Hassan Collado, Samer
%T A Decentralized Publication System for Open Science using Blockchain and IPFS
%D 2018
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/19715
%X Science publication and peer review raises concerns about fairness, quality, per-formance, cost or accuracy. The Open Access movements has been unable to fulfill all itspromises, and middlemen publishers can still impose policies and concentrate profits. Thispaper,  using  emerging  distributed  technologies  such  as  Blockchain  and  IPFS,  proposes  adecentralized  publication  system  for  open  science.  It  provides  transparent  governance,  adistributed  reviewer  reputation  system,  and  open  access  by-design.  The  paper  concludesreviewing the open challenges of such approach.
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