Open Access Business Model

About

Partners in Digital Health (PDH) is a new global forward reaching healthcare communications company. It is female owned, independent and highly nimble. The portfolio is committed to moving the needle of value-based care for all, but few know the company is highly engaged in expanding the boundaries and accessibility of traditional academic journal publishing for stakeholders around the globe.

Examples of its innovative scholar first solutions in the health, life science, computing and information systems sectors include:

• Time Stamped Ledger of Record for researchers to record original research article provenance on the blockchain providing authors with custom dashboards for authors to transact smart contracts, control research access, synchronize with ORCID and include  code and supplementary data in the peer review workflow. 
• Conflict of interest (COI) disclosures published for editorial, reviewer and staff members
• Article Proof of Origin (APOO) is located on BHTY article landing pages providing more legitimacy & artifacts for researchers to use, share and trust (see press release here) and is stamped on the Hedera public ledger.
• Retractions are published on the blockchain
• Global journal ambassador chapters unveil world health trends and innovations, identify local market education gaps and share expertise to accelerate healthcare transformation and collaboration around the globe
• Digital Currency Payment Option

The portfolio converges leading academics, trailblazing innovators, and multidisciplinary new era stakeholders around the world to accelerate healthcare transformation and build consensus in the telehealth, virtual care and blockchain technology in healthcare emerging market sectors. PDH continuously pushes the boundaries of technology innovation in scholarly publication and ecosystem practices to bring trust, transparency, and truth to its audience. The portfolio’s motto is “Building Trust Through Truth.”

PDH publishes two international open access peer reviewed journals:

Call for Participation

Building on the recent Article Proof of Origin (APOO) announcement, PDH is now inviting multidisciplinary stakeholders across the industry to create a new blockchain based open access research sharing peer reviewed journal business model. 

PDH believes the industry can create a new business model where digital currency, proof of origin, reproducibility, reviewer, author and reader can create a new ecosystem model that engages, rewards and blazes new trails for trust in scientific communications.

Who should participate?

Leadership from academic societies, alliances, publishers, universities and affiliated libraries, content aggregators, early and late career researchers, open access publishing platforms, subscription and non-subscription database companies providing academic citation data, not-for-profit foundations, affiliated academic journal companies and academic journal editorial board members, peer reviewers, readers and startups are all welcome to participate. 

Why participate

If you are interested in building a new model for academic promotion tracks, more equitable and accessible participation from emerging nations where research can be shared and rewarded for reproducibility, fortifying trust in scientific communications and media outlets, building deeper engagement between journal authors, readers and the peer review workflow, that expands journal business models to include a new digital economy, bring your intellectual capital to this ground breaking initiative.

How to participate

PDH will launch an open access work-stream on its Partners in Digital Health Institute (PDHInst) site for those interested. Registration will close on July 30, 2021. Due to the ground-breaking significance of this initiative, all PDHInst member fees will be waived. The registration link is https://pdhinstitute.com/join. Select “OA Business Model”. 

Participants include

Acoer

Hedera Hashgraph

Partners in Digital Health (PDH)