This page links to all the resources described in the paper:

  • [PDF] [DOI] B. Gipp, C. Breitinger, N. Meuschke, and J. Beel, “CryptSubmit: Introducing Securely Timestamped Manuscript Submission and Peer Review Feedback using the Blockchain,” in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), Toronto, Canada, 2017.
    [Bibtex]
    @inproceedings{Gipp2017b,
      title        = {CryptSubmit: Introducing Securely Timestamped Manuscript Submission and Peer Review Feedback using the Blockchain},
      author       = {Gipp, Bela and Breitinger, Corinna and Meuschke, Norman and Beel, Joeran},
      year         = 2017,
      booktitle    = {Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)},
      address      = {Toronto, Canada},
      doi          = {10.1109/jcdl.2017.7991588},
      topic        = {blockchain}
    }

 

The prototype is available for testing here: https://iivooo.suhail.uberspace.de/ojs/

The source code is available under an open source MIT licence. Please contact Bela Gipp. 

The CryptSubmit manuscript management and submission system offers authors a mechanism to obtain a  tamperproof and persistent piece of evidence that is independent of the submission system itself and enables authors to verifiably prove that they submitted a research work to a venue at a specific time.