This is an update on One.Surgery’s project to develop a BRAND new model of peer review publishing – low cost, high quality, ethical, affordable, equitable, user friendly, innovative and beautiful!
Surgery One are excited to announce that they are making significant progress in the design / interface of the revolutionary journal, and are happy to annouce the name of the very first cryptocurrency (Bitcoin Cash) powered journal as: The Journal Of Global Surgery (ONE).
With the power of Bitcoin Cash, the journal offers a paradigm changing “community funded” model, where articles are released to the community with an ethical price tag (explaining the journal’s transparent running and publishing costs). Whilst the (very low cost) price tag remains on the article, the article is closed but anyone anyone in the world can still gain access the article through a Bitcoin Cash micropayment of an amount as low as $0.1. Any payments coming into the article gradually pay off the price tag for everyone – and once the journal has recouped its (minimal) costs, the article is freely accessible to all, and the science is fully owned by the community.
Furthermore, the journal model can be replicated seamlessly with minimal costs. So if the project is successful, Surgery (ONE) anticipate the spawning of multiple scientific journals powered by Bitcoin Cash – as any community will be able to create their own ethical journal that is sustainable and affordable for everyone.
As their running costs are so low, there is now scope to also consider recognising peer reviewers and editors in unique ways, with stipend allowances for their critical contributions. This is in stark contrast to multibillion dollar scientific publishing industry, where authors are often asked to pay in excess of $2000-30000 to publish one article and the profits distributed to publishing houses and not back to the scientific world.
Announcing the editorial board
One Surgery has already started developing a world class, diverse editorial board from all over the world. Still recruiting board members to make it truly representative of region, gender and opinions.
