Products / Reference manager
Noterva is a reference manager that tells you whether your sources are worth citing. Every paper you save arrives with its record: where it was published, whether that venue is credible, and what we could not verify.
The reference manager reaches the Chrome Web Store shortly — members hear first, and launch access is free.
Previously Scholar Vault. Same library, same account, new name — and a new job.
You can retrieve ten thousand papers this afternoon and have them summarized by evening. What no tool will tell you is which of them deserved your attention — which journal is real, which finding was contested, which citation says what the paper claims it says.
So your library fills with sources you never verified, from venues you never checked. And at the end, you put your name on the bibliography anyway.
A reference manager should not be a warehouse. It should be a record of your judgment.
What it does
The moment a source enters your library, so does what we know about it. Not a separate lookup you have to remember to run.
Indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, DOAJ — or not. Publication volume. Editorial board verifiability. The facts, and where we got them.
Export to any style, into any manuscript. Your bibliography is a list of things you actually stand behind.
Trust
We never tell you a journal is “bad.” We tell you what we checked, what we found, and what we could not confirm — and we let you decide. Our methodology is published in full and open to challenge.
Zotero is excellent, free, and answers a different question: where did I put it. We answer: should it be there. Import your library in one click. Export it any time. We will never hold your references hostage.
Scholar Vault is now Noterva. Your library, your account, and your citations are unchanged — nothing to migrate, nothing to do. We changed the name because we changed the job. A vault stores things. Noterva tells you whether they're worth storing.