International Article Address (IAA)

International Article Address (IAA) is a permanent address to an scholarly online article. The International Article Address (IAA) is a modern article address. IAA is a fixed permanent international article address which auto-finds the article new address

IAA solves the following common problems of online articles:

Accessing Article by IAA:

An IAA is a permanent address to an specific article (example: IAA.zone/23633624786), the article directly can be accessed simply by typing the IAA address in the internet browser. As example, find associated article to this IAA: IAA.zone/23633624786 use following portal:

IAA Syntax Structure:

An IAA consisted of two parts, zone name separated by an slash from 11 digit article identification number: IAA.zone/11 digits. IAA is 22 length including zone name as following example: IAA.zone/23633624786:

According to the Advanced Science Index (ASI) standard, publishers should explicitly display IAA in the described format on online published article. IAA cannot be any arbitrary number. It is a self-verifiable number by ASI-V3 algorithm. To check the validity of a IAA, IAA validator portal is used.

History of Development of IAA:

Uniform Resource Locator (URL) invented in 1989. Its drawback is that when the URL of an article is broken, the reader cannot access the article. To solve this problem, Direct Object Identifier (DOI) was introduced by DOI Foundation in the US in 1998. A DOI is an assigned fixed URL to an article's actual URL. Thus, if the actual article URL changes, the publisher should adjust the new URL of the article to its DOI URL via publisher account, and if the publisher does not adjust the new URL to the Aarticle DOI URL, the DOI URL will not work. International article Identification Number (IAA) was introduced on 2014 by Advanced Science Index (ASI) in Germany as a permanent URL to article partly similar to DOI but with this difference that IAA address also keeps article metadata on a separate server from article server. If the actual article URL is broken IAA server detects it and will load the only article metadata instead with suggestions about possible new URLs of the article. Also, the publisher does not need to adjust the new URL of article manually, IAA server finds the new URL of the article automatically and adjust it to its IAA address.