How It Works
The Platform's operation includes two components:
Part I: technological operations involving content
Part II: transactions
PART I: TECHNOLOGICAL OPERATIONS INVOLVING CONTENT
Author of a scientific work
An author uploads his/her scientific work to the Platform. To this end, he/she follows the step-by-step guidelines enabling the following:
choosing a subject area
choosing the field of practical application of his/her scientific work
choosing the type of unloaded content
choosing the nature of his/her scientific work
choosing the type of access to his/her scientific work: open or closed
uploading the information fields assigned for the chosen type of uploaded content;
choosing the level of scientific novelty that the author believes is claimed by his/her work
Reviewer
reviews the chosen paper based on the proposed criteria, which depend on the level of scientific novelty claimed by the author: provides estimates and, if desired, adds text comments
selects a paper for reviewing, based on his/her research area, from corresponding works hosted by the hosted by the Platform
The Platform's internal algorithm
calculates the average estimate of a paper by three reviewers
choosing the type of unloaded content
computes the evaluation of reviewer's objectivity based on the estimates by different categories of end users/readers
The end user/reader
sees a freely-accessible Cover Letter about scientific content and chooses it according to his/her criteria
sees the estimates by reviewers
takes a decision to pay for full access to content
if it is difficult to make a decision to pay for full access due to lack of information, he/she decides he/she decides to pay USD 3,40 to access the detailed abstract
assesses quality of the purchased content by rating it according to the proposed criteria
sees all content that is in the public domain, downloads the full text, that is if interest to him/her, for free
if the detailed abstract appears convincing, he/she decides to pay for full access to the content
PART II: TRANSACTIONS
End user/reader
pays for full access to content or, if unable to make a decision, pays USD 3,40 to access the detailed abstract
Author of scientific work
receives payment of 90 % of the claimed cost of content
Reviewer
receives a percentage of the payment for the content purchased by end user/reader