ANNOUNCING THE NEW
COLLABORATION • COLLECTION • CLARITY
“I have used Nota Bene since 1986,
and I have eagerly anticipated and embraced all your revisions.
This leap to version 15 is the most astonishing.”
Josef Barton
Departments of History and of Spanish and Portuguese Northwestern University
“One of the biggest achievements of NB 15 is the ability to directly write DOCX files and to write them back to NB files.
Since I am constantly in touch with editors
who don’t (yet) use NB, this is a major advance for me.”
Daniel Boyarin
Former Taubman professor of Talmudic Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Nota Bene now writes virtually “lossless” DOCX files directly, converting all the document’s elements exquisitely and precisely, making it unlikely that the recipient will even know that the file was not created natively in Word. This powerful new capability is bi–directional—the converted file can be read into Nota Bene with the edits and formatting changes made in Word fully preserved, becoming part of your smarter Nota Bene document.
Compatibility in Nota Bene 15 reaches enviable levels of accuracy. Use all of Nota Bene’s unparalleled research capabilities in a converted DOCX document without a worry.
Nota Bene’s “Smart Conversion” represents the most sophisticated solution for those who have written research projects in the DOCX format, but who wish to benefit from Nota Bene’s extraordinarily powerful research and writing tools without losing any of their previous efforts.
Every detail is precisely formatted according to the rules of the selected academic style. All segments of the document are accounted for, including the title, abstract, body text, bibliography/reference list.
A wizard guides you through the file, identifying headings and applying consistent styles (with your preferred numbering scheme, if any), along with body-text segments and indented blocks.
The new structure is both conceptual and visual.
Zotero citations entered into the DOCX document are automatically imported as native bibliographic records into the user’s Ibidem database, providing Ibidem’s state-of-the-art dynamic citations and bibliography / reference list formatting following the rules of the selected academic style manual.
These newly “smart” citations can thus be contextualized–changing form (full to short, ibid., op. cit., etc., depending on the style) as citations are added, deleted, or moved.
(Citations not entered from a Zotero database remain formatted as they were in the original document.)
The DOCX ↔ Nota Bene opens up new possibilities beyond a simplified way to share finished work with colleagues or publishers by enabling collaborative work—track change edits and deletions, and related comments, entered into Opus or Word are carefully retained in both the import and export processes.
It’s now possible for you to do your research and writing in Nota Bene, create a DOCX version which your editor can mark up and comment, and then bring everything back into your smarter Nota Bene document, making the desired corrections, before sending off a final version to your publisher.
(And there’s actually much more—as noted below, the process of working with track changes in Nota Bene has been radically improved.)
Radius is a revolutionary and essential tool that is now included in the Workstation.
It can capture anything on the web, academic or personal, saving and organizing it both as structured data for access in Ibidem and as free-form text searchable by Orbis.
Radius captures well-formed bibliographic references to populate your Ibidem database and for citing in papers.
Radius works especially well with structured academic sources, where bibliographic metadata is already well-defined.
These sources contain clean fields (author, title, publisher, date), which Radius can parse directly into Ibidem-ready records.
Radius can extract bibliographic details directly from publisher pages.
It captures citation data along with publisher info, abstracts, and links, keeping everything connected.
Radius can pull structured book data using ISBN-based sources.
Even when data is embedded in page text, Radius can identify and structure it into usable bibliographic entries.
Unlike typical tools, Radius doesn’t require a “formal” database.
It can extract author, title, date, and page content, even when the structure is less standardized.
Radius handles documents beyond web pages.
It captures both full text and any available metadata, making them searchable in Orbis and usable in Ibidem.
One of Radius’s biggest strengths is handling complex pages.
Radius can separate different data types from a single page into multiple structured entries.
Radius isn’t limited to formal research environments.
These can still become organized, searchable, and citable data within your system.
Radius lets you gather bibliographic data from **anywhere on the web—structured or unstructured—**and transforms it into:
Everything captured in Radius is automatically organized for immediate and long-term use—and securely saved to your hard drive, ensuring it remains accessible even if the original content disappears from the web.
Web content, citation data, and linked files are stored in structured formats that flow directly into Ibidem, while full-text content remains available for Orbis searching.
This dual approach—structured data plus free-form text—ensures that nothing is lost and everything stays usable, whether you’re building a bibliography, compiling notes, or organizing large research projects.
Once captured, your data becomes instantly searchable through Orbis, transforming your collection into a powerful research engine. Radius indexes everything—from full-text documents to keywords and metadata—so you can retrieve exactly what you need in seconds. With support for both simple queries and advanced Boolean searches, it allows you to move seamlessly from collecting information to actively using it in your writing and analysis.
“Looks great.
Rea Irvin* would be proud—a truly Art Deco interface!”
Lawrie Cherniack
Canadian lawyer now focusing on conflict resolution [to] bring people together
*Rea Irvin was the de facto first art editor of The New Yorker and the creator of its iconic Eustace Tilley top-hat figure and its traditional New Yorker typeface.
All new interface elements are optional,
and you can revert to your existing interface.
All new interface elements are optional—they can be individually or globally suppressed; you can also continue to use your existing interface.
A new tabbed toolbar replaces multiple toolbars with a single tabbed version with intuitive categories that expose task-specific actions and options, foregrounding all of Nota Bene’s capabilities, making them newly accessible to both novice and experienced users. The result is a confident user experience with a new level of efficient workflow.
Nota Bene’s Guide Bar offers tips and tricks for new and existing users alike (Nota Bene does more than you even know about). Two categories—”Introduction” and “Scholarship”—offer half a dozen pull-down descriptive help panels that can be pulled down or printed.
A new startup screen for new users (shown above) to introduce them to all of Nota Bene’s capabilities and an alternative, simpler screen that allows direct launching of Nota Bene modules upon startup are now available.
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