Attested Record «evidentia ✓»
evidentia ✓ enables journal editors to safeguard their publications against frauds such as mirror or hijacked journals that trade on the reputation of legitimate scholarly journals. The service preserves a witness record of the original publication —authors, dates, citation counts, and other bibliographic metadata— to support independent verification.
It also provides registration of official communications (for example, acceptance letters). Because some predatory outfits sell letters in the name of reputable journals, evidentia ✓ lets authors retrieve, via a verification code, an exact PDF copy of the official communication bearing an electronic signature. Editors have a user interface to upload these communications.
Documents (including official communications) can be electronically signed through a signing interface available to editors who use the verification service. The signing app accepts only the internal digital certificate.
The service supports registering external digital certificates for trusted electronic signatures. When a certificate is registered as trusted, documents signed by its holder —using their own tools— will be recognized by our public validator as trusted, provided the signature is valid.
If a document is altered after it has been signed, the validator will flag it as not trusted, giving authors and readers assurance about the document’s integrity. This tampering alert is independent of the signing tool used (whether ours or an external one, whether the signature is a registered trusted signature or an unknown one; any post-signature change is detected).
As an integrity policy, records cannot be edited once created —not even by the registering editors. Any change requires creating a new record. Only the responsible editor can create records for their previously enrolled source.
Fees
Publication registry for 1 source + trusted local digital certificate or external certificate registration: US$ 40 per year (cap: 100 records; unlimited signatures).
Publication registry for 2 sources + trusted local digital certificate or external certificate registration: US$ 70 per year (cap: 200 records; unlimited signatures).
Communications registry for 1 source + trusted local digital certificate or external certificate registration: US$ 40 per year (cap: 100 communications; unlimited signatures).
Communications registry for 2 sources + trusted local digital certificate or external certificate registration: US$ 70 per year (cap: 200 communications; unlimited signatures).
Local digital certificate registration: US$ 0 per year (unlimited signatures; renewed alongside another contracted service).
External digital certificate registration: US$ 20 per registration (unlimited signatures).
Bundle: Publication registry (1 source) + communications registry (1 source) + digital certificate registration (local or external): US$ 50 per year.
Bundle: Publication registry (2 sources) + communications registry (2 sources) + digital certificate registration (local or external): US$ 80 per year.
Bundle: From the third source onward: + US$ 30 per year (per additional source).
Terms of use
Fees apply per source (journal, book, proceedings series), not per user account. A user may manage more than one source.
Services are activated once payment is received.
Publication records remain active while the service is in force. The annual subscription covers new records for the current year and preserves historical records. Only new records created each year count toward the annual cap. The annual cap does not roll over and resets each year.
The publication registry has a cap of 100 records per year. If the cap is exceeded, additional charges apply in blocks:
1–25 extra: US$ 10 | 26–50 extra: US$ 20 | 51–75 extra: US$ 30 | 76–100 extra: US$ 40.
The communications registry has a cap of 100 records per year. Each PDF communication may be up to 500 KB, sufficient for logos, QR codes, links, and an electronic signature. If the annual cap is exceeded, additional charges apply in blocks:
1–25 extra: US$ 10 | 26–50 extra: US$ 20 | 51–75 extra: US$ 30 | 76–100 extra: US$ 40.
Registering digital certificates enables the validator to recognize a signature as trusted. Validator use is unlimited. Trust status depends on: (i) the certificate’s validity at the time of signing (valid if the document was signed before expiry), and (ii) the document’s integrity (valid if it has not been altered after signing). The expiry of external digital certificates is defined in the certificate itself. The registration service is not responsible for the use of expired certificates.
How to contract
Contact Realidad e Historia SpA through its administrator, Ismael Cáceres-Correa, at contacto@gestioneditorial.cl.
Payment methods are arranged directly with the administrator.
Realidad e Historia SpA is a company incorporated under the laws of Chile. Legal name: «Sociedad de Estudios y Publicaciones Realidad e Historia SpA». RUT: 78.213.981-9. These details can be verified in the Chilean companies registry.
The evidentia ✓ service is part of Realidad e Historia SpA’s editorial management offering.