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THE THEORY Radius meets the need of Nota Bene users for state-of-the-art web-clipping software that surpasses the capabilities of currently available applications by addressing vital academic research needs. The result is a “smart web clipper,” one that, with one click or keyboard combination, automatically discriminates between different types of content found in web pages and on-line documents, distinguishing bibliographic data from web-text contents, clipping the different data types and simultaneously storing different types of information in the respective searchable databases — using both Ibidem/IbidPlus databases and Orbis textbases. Users can now mine on-line data as never before. This is Radius. Radius announces itself as a small footprint popup window. Each data type the user clipped appears listed by type. Bibliographic data is listed as coming from different sources: RIS records, citations embedded in the on-line document (e.g., an article that offers a “Cite” option), book and author data found in publishers’ catalogs (e.g., Edelweiss Plus, the largest portal of book publishers’ catalogs), and bibliographic data from ISBN identifiers in an on-line document or downloaded from your smartphone. Beyond saving everything in structured database format, the textual content of a clipped web page (or selections from it) are instantly indexed, searchable, and available for viewing/copying in Popup Orbis. Tag the found passages with your own Orbis keyword for an even more powerful research experience. The real-life results for researchers is breathtaking in ease, speed, and convenience.

THE PRACTICE See what Radius can do for you (if you have it already, follow along). As Always, It Begins with the Academic Begin with a journal page — go to the University of Chicago web site for The Journal of Modern History, search for "myth of great war," and click to open the first article (or go there directly by clicking here): Mark Connelly and Stefan Goebel, "Forgetting the Great War? The Langemarck Myth between Cultural Oblivion and Critical Memory in (West) Germany, 1945-2014" 1 Capture the (HTML) text content from the page: With the article on screen, click on the Radius browser extension icon If you have not visited this site recently, your browser may ask you to click the "Allow" button The Radius capture window will pop up, with the record displayed as type "Web Page" presented in a familiar Ibidem-like interface (with familiar, and new, fields) added (behind the scenes) to your IbidPlus Web Pages database (check and see) Add your own terms as desired in the Keywords/Category field (and make any other edits) Open Popup Orbis (Tools > Popup Orbis or F4), and, with the "Radius Captured Web Pages" textbase selected, type (without the quotes and clicking on the AND Boolean connector as needed): "rhythms AND urban AND life" and click on the Enter icon (if you are following along, you'll be impressed!) 2 Extract the bibliographic data from the page: Among the icons on the web page is a figure of a wrench. Click it and select "Download Citation," then select RIS format (if not already selected), and click on the Download button The Radius window comes alive again populated with another record, this time of the data type RIS the record has been simultaneously added to your own Ibidem bibliographic database (go ahead, check it) 3 Get the article in PDF format: On the article Web page, click on the option to "Save PDF" Check the Ibidem bibliographic database and you'll see that the field "Local PDF Link" will be populated with the link to the PDF file. If you have set up your Orbis research textbase to include PDF files, you can search the contents in Popup Orbis and Full Orbis. An added BONUS for Zotero users: With Radius, Zotero records are copied and converted into native Ibidem records: select the Zotero record(s), click Edit > Copy as RIS or use the keystroke Ctl+Shift+C. The record will be added to Ibidem. This is new, simpler and much faster than the conventional Import process available in bibliographic database programs. But Radius is for Everything You Do When you're not in your academic mind set and are simply exploring the Web, clip any page of your interest and let Popup Orbis provide you with answers to your queries. The contents of any web page come into the Radius domain, as both database records and searchable full text: newspaper articles, film reviews, Web pages offering goods and services such as eBay, Zillow, culinary sites ... anything. 1 Go to any website 2 Click the Radius browser extension icon to clip the    page you wish to have 3 A record will be added to your Web Pages    database 4 And you will be able to instantly search the entire    downloaded content in Popup Orbis — instantly! A Game-Changing Tool Radius can be fine-tuned to your personal preferences if the default settings are not enough. It comes with an extraordinarily rich Help system to guide you if needed. Check out the Radius web page for all the details — a fuller overview, a Quick Start Guide, videos, a reference manual, and more. This is on-line research the way you would want it.

Maximize the Power of the Original Orbis

Radius draws on, and enhances, all the power of Orbis, the module that has been called the “heart of Nota Bene,” even its “crown jewel.” To make sure that you are taking advantage of all that that unique module offers, making Radius even more useful, we are offering the Orbis+ add-on that extends its reach to all kinds of documents — PDF files, HTML text, Word documents (both the original RTF and the newer DOXC formats —) for only $10 (a savings of $69 off the regular price of $79).

Be sure to take advantage of this special offer before the end of this year (December 31, 2024).

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