  Academic publishing is continuously evolving with the gradual adoption of new
technologies. Blockchain is a new technology that promises to change how
individuals and organizations interact across various boundaries. The adoption
of blockchains is beginning to transform diverse industries such as finance,
supply chain, international trade, as well as energy and resource management
and many others. Through trust, data immutability, decentralized distribution
of data, and facilitation of collaboration without the need for centralized
management and authority, blockchains have the potential to transform the
academic publishing domain and to address some of the current problems such as
productivity and reputation management, predatory publishing, transparent
peer-review processes and many others. In this paper, we outline the
technologies available in the domain of permissioned blockchains with focus on
Hyperledger Fabric and discuss how they can be leveraged in the domain of
academic publishing.
