Artificial societies. 2013-2020 ISSN 2077-5180 URL - http://artsoc.jes.su All right reserved Issue 1 Volume 14. 2019 Issue 1 Volume 14 - 2019 Self-Adjustment and Community Consensus: Token- Curated Registries in the Economy of an Open Access Academic Journal N. Gordiychuk State Academic University for the Humanities Russian Federation, Moscow A. Kosmarski State Academic University for the Humanities Russian Federation, Moscow Abstract The purpose of this work is to propose a model for running open access academic journals, a model based on a new technology from the sphere of blockchain, smart contracts and cryptoeconomics: token-curated registry (TCR). The authors delineate key issues and bottlenecks of scholarly publishing and peer review process. The principle of operation of the TCR, its advantages and disadvantages, its underlying theoretical setup, is then described. An peer-reviewed journal based on TCR technology is proposed, in which decisions on publishing an articles are made by interested members of the journal’s community (as a rule, by authors who published articles in its previous issues) and material incentives are created for the good work of peer reviewers. Keywords list (en): blockchain, open access, scientific community, peer review, self-regulating systems, smart contracts, token-curated registries, economy of academic journals Date of publication: 30.03.2019 Acknowledgment: Статья подготовлена при финансовой поддержке Российского фонда фундаментальных исследований (РФФИ) в рамках научного проекта «Сетевые договоры (смарт-контракты) как способ регулирования и организации научной деятельности» (№ 18-29-16184).