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INTRODUCING THE ENHANCED NEW
ARCHIVA
AN OPEN SYSTEM

So dramatic. So different.

Web-focused tools to bring the web to Nota Bene, Ibidem, Orbis & beyond

Search On-Line Libraries ♦ Capture Journal Citations
Convert Formatted Bibliographies
Catalog Libraries from Scanned Barcodes
Capture & Parse Text from Any Web Page

EVERYTHING YOU’VE HOPED FOR . . . AND A LOT MORE!

So indispensible.

“I can't live without Archiva!!!!

Daniel Boyarin
Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture • University of California, Berkeley

“Archiva is a life-changing experience”

Hélène Lipstadt
History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art program • MIT

CLICK TO READ COMMENTS FROM OTHER USERS




Archiva is the collective name for a series of web-research and data-capture and conversion modules. In a nutshell, Archiva helps you find and then gather information you don’t already have, and retrieves it for you in a usable form.

There are currently five different Archiva functions available as part of two packages (described in detail below). Together they provide time-and effort-saving capture and conversion of the kind of scholarly bibliographic and other information you need in your work.

Getting Archiva for the first time?

Archiva Premium (Books and Articles) — $50
Archiva Platinum (all five modules) — $75

Existing NB Users:
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New Customers:
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Do you already have Archiva?

  Upgrade from earlier version to Premium — $29
  Upgrade from earlier version to Platinum — $59
  Upgrade from Premium to Platinum — $39

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View introductory video tutorial

ARCHIVA PREMIUM
Books (Library Searches)
Archiva Books lets you avoid the slow and cumbersome web-interface of an on-line library catalog to search for books. Never leave the familiar Ibidem interface to search discriminatingly in one library or simultaneusly in multiple libraries. Use your own university library or some others . . . as many as you want, at the same time. As with all Archiva products, choose the bibliographic records you find and automatically add to your Ibidem database.

“This latest update came most coincidentally as I was sitting down to search my university's library for some titles, so I installed it and put it through some tests. The results are all perfect. It's time to say it: EndNote has met its match, and then some.”
Prof. Mark Szuchman ♦ Department of History, Florida International University
View Archiva Books video

Articles (Web Databases)
As an academic, you have access—via your university or research center—to tens of thousands of on-line databases of journal and newspaper articles, along with chapters in books and anthologies. Archiva Articles mines data from the various aggregators (e.g., JSTOR, Cambridge Scientific Abstract, EBSCOHost, ProQuest, OCLC, Eureka and dozens more) that provide direct access to this article-level literature, bringing the bibliographic data automatically into your Ibidem database.

“Everything works like a charm! I can retrieve records and append them normally not only accessing JSTOR but other databases as well. Many thanks for your attention and my congratulations for this wonderful tool you created.”
Enrique Lynch ♦ Professor of Philosophy, University of Barcelona
View Archiva Articles video

Added Bonus Features
In addition to searching on-line libraries and capturing citations from web-based databases, with Archiva Premium you can launch searches of web pages right from within Nota Bene using NB’s own web-page “favorites” system, or—from within an Ibidem record—retrieve the ISBN number, and then use that to create automatic links to the proper pages from WorldCat (to check availability), Google Books, the Library of Congress, and Amazon.

ARCHIVA PLATINUM
INCLUDES ALL of ARCHIVA PREMIUM
PLUS
Bibliography Converter
Did a colleague just give you a particularly useful bibliography? Or did you happen across one during a recent web search? Or have you finally decided that you’re tired of formatting all your bibliographic references manually, and want to start using Ibidem, but don’t want to have to spend weeks manually typing in all your existing non-database-style bibliographies? If so, you’ll welcome Archiva Bibliography Converter—simply select the records you’d like, and Archiva will convert them into field-oriented Ibidem records.

“The ability of Archiva Platinum to convert bibliographies into Ibidem is alone worth the price. I had dreamed of a way to avoid having to input data from bibliographies I have kept for years or ones other people have sent me, and now Platinum does it in a few heartbeats.”
Klyne Snodgrass ♦ North Park Theological Seminary
View Archiva Bibliography Converter video

      ISBN Converter      
If you’re a book lover, you’ve undoubtedly noticed the barcodes on the back covers of all the books published in the last few decades. And you’ve probably envied the ease with which these cryptic set of lines enable booksellers and librarians to catalog these works. Envy no more—with Archiva ISBN Converter, you can build Ibidem bibliographic databases simply by scanning these barcodes. It’s perfect for cataloging your own library, or capturing books you run across in bookstores, libraries, and at academic conventions. And even if you don’t have a scanner, Archiva ISBN Converter can save you time and effort—simply type or paste in ISBN numbers, and Archiva will go get the full records for you.

“Using Archiva with [an ISBN barcode] scanner has been pure pleasure and considerable fun.  I’m already planning to catalogue my whole library this summer.”
Dr. Alan Segal ♦ Barnard College

“I am happy as a neophyte supermarket shelver. I have been running around my house—from study, to living room to bedroom and back—scanning into Ibidem every book I can lay hands on. . . . This new feature is such a great leap forward that it amounts to a revolution. . . . Now I can add a new book in an instant, and without getting distracted from reading and writing. My students will think me a master of my field, when I am in reality just a little old scanner, a Wizard of Oz of the world of books.”
Dr. John Talbott ♦ Department of History, University of California Santa Barbara
View Archiva ISBN Converter video

Web Page Text Capture
It’s a truism that the web has dramatically changed the way academics work. There’s more information out there than any of us imagined possible even a decade ago. But how do you make use of this overwhelming abundance of data? It’s easy, of course, to save web links by adding them to your browser’s favorites. But how do you get all that stuff that interests you in a form which you can easily search, along with your other notes, articles, and manuscripts? That’s where Archiva Web Page Text comes in: It captures and structures data from the web, letting you retrieve just the text you need, in just the form you need it—you can save what you copy from the web pages you visit to the clipboard, incorporate it in a non-bibliographic database, replete with the fields you need, or append it to a cumulative “log” or other NB file, which you can then search—by using Orbis—in free-form, unstructured, mode.

“Archiva performs the essential sterling service of capturing the text and creating a database record for use by NB tools. . . . The advantages of having the data in the integrated NB environment seem clear and overriding.”
Steven Uran ♦ The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris
View Archiva Web Page Text Capture video


With Archiva, you’ll save literally thousands of hours over the course of your scholarly career. You can use the time you save by not having to enter bibliographic data, or worry about citing it in the proper form, for the creative aspects of your work. Best of all, Archiva will make even that easier for you, simply by giving you the ability to capture text (links to journal articles, or whatever you want from web pages) that—when searched using NB’s tools, especially Orbis—you’ll discover to be chock full of interesting ideas and important relationships.

Getting Archiva for the first time?

Archiva Premium (Books and Articles) — $65 (regularly $89)
Archiva Platinum (all five modules) — $85 (regularly $129)

Existing NB Users:
LOGIN
New Customers:
 ORDER FORM

Do you already have Archiva?

  Upgrade from earlier version to Premium — $29 (regularly $49)
  Upgrade from earlier version to Platinum — $59 (regularly $79)
  Upgrade from Premium to Platinum — $39 (regularly $59)

LOGIN


“To my mind Archiva has simply become the best bibliographical search tool available, and its seamless integration with Ibidem has made it my newfound favourite part of Nota Bene.”

Shawn W.J. Keough
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

“I have unlocked Archiva and discovered that it is — to adopt the words of my 14 year old daughter — ‘sweet’! It makes NB even more comprehensive and is yet another example of how NB makes all of the technical aspects of academic research work just so much easier.”

Dr Jamie Grant, Highland Theological College, Scotland


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