Aletheia Verifiable Record
Verify a publication
Every published edition has a record that states the exact bytes of the authoritative file, the external deposit and the sources anyone can check again.
Every record verifies declared identity, metadata and file integrity. It does not certify scientific correctness, originality, universal priority, legal authorship, peer review or absence of plagiarism.
01 / Method
How to verify
- Open the record for the edition you care about: the link sits on the publication page, or search for it next to this list.
- Compare your file: SHA-256 is computed in your browser and the file is never uploaded.
- Check the external sources the record cites: Zenodo, DOI, public commit, Software Heritage.
02 / Search
Find a record
Paste an AVR identifier, a DOI or a SHA-256: if it matches a published record you go straight to its verification page.
03 / Tool
What an AVR record is
AVR stands for Aletheia Verifiable Record. It is an evidence envelope around a single published edition: the exact bytes of the authoritative file, the external deposit that holds its DOI, the public source commit and independent archival observations.
The comparison happens in your browser: the file is never uploaded, never retained, and the digest never reaches analytics. Every record has a stable address and a QR pointing at that address rather than at the PDF, so verification survives the file moving.
A record's history is append-only: corrections and supersessions are added, they do not rewrite what was already published.
It is not a legal certification or an expert opinion. A digest and a date do not prove that a work is correct, original, or written by whoever claims it.
For organisations
We are building this tool for our own publications. If your organisation needs to show that a delivered document is exactly the one deposited, and that the sources it declares can be checked by the reader, we can talk about it.