• DOI:10.1629/uksg.488
Corpus ID: 213336312

The fundamental problem blocking open access and how to overcome it: the BitViews project

@article{Lamanna2019TheFP,
  title={The fundamental problem blocking open access and how to overcome it: the BitViews project},
  author={Camillo Lamanna and M. Manna},
  journal={Insights: The UKSG Journal},
  year={2019},
  volume={32}
}

Camillo Lamanna, M. Manna

Published 2019

Business

Insights: The UKSG Journal

In our view the fundamental obstacle to open access (OA) is the lack of any incentive-based mechanism that unbundles authors’ accepted manuscripts (AMs) from articles (VoRs). The former can be seen as the public good that ought to be openly accessible, whereas the latter is owned by publishers and rightly paywall-restricted. We propose one such mechanism to overcome this obstacle: BitViews. BitViews is a blockchain-based application that aims to revolutionize the OA publishing ecosystem… CONTINUE READING

View PDF

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

Launch Research Feed