For Distinguished Academics

The permanent record of your life's work.

Wikipedia articles, academic websites, and career archives for senior professors. Researched, written, and built for you. Nothing payable until you approve the work.

A career, properly recorded.
The Problem

Decades of scholarship deserve better than a stale university page. Your work belongs on Wikipedia, and somewhere permanent that you own.

01

Wikipedia is missing you

Wikipedia is where the world looks first, and where a scholarly career is meant to be recorded. Yet thousands of professors who merit an article simply don't have one, because writing it properly takes research, sourcing, and craft.

02

University pages disappear

Faculty profiles go stale the day you stop updating them, and often vanish entirely at retirement. The institution's record of you is not yours, and it was never built to last.

03

Self-built sites undersell you

A Google Sites page assembled by a graduate student a decade ago does not represent a distinguished career. Scholarship of lasting value deserves a presence built with the same care.

University pages disappear at retirement. This is the record that remains. Made once, properly, it is there for life, and after it.
The Scholar Archive Promise
Services

Everything a career of scholarship requires. Done for you.

You approve everything. You write nothing. You pay only when satisfied.

The Complete Record

Digital Legacy Package

One commission, everything included. The complete, permanent record of a career, assembled once and properly.

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Everything included
  • Wikipedia article
  • Academic website, first year of care included
  • Complete presence cleanup
  • Written career retrospective, from an interview with you
  • Full archive of your publications and teaching materials
  • Succession plan, so the record outlasts you
The Process

Careful, transparent, and yours to approve at every step.

STEP 1

Free assessment

We review your record against Wikipedia's standards and give you a straight answer, either way.

STEP 2

Research

We locate the independent, published sources: press, citations, reviews, honors, archives.

STEP 3

Draft

We write. Neutral, precise, properly referenced. The way a record should read.

STEP 4

Your approval

You review for factual accuracy. About an hour of your time. Nothing proceeds without you.

STEP 5

Submission

We submit and handle the editorial process. Payment is due only after your approval.

Pricing

Plain figures. No upfront payment.

Wikipedia Article

Free assessment, full source research, drafted article, one revision round, submission.

$750$600 emeritus rate

Academic Website

Your own domain, publications, research and teaching pages. Care plan $25 per month.

$500

Presence Cleanup

Scholar, ORCID, LinkedIn and university pages set right, plus your canonical biography.

$300$200 with any service

Digital Legacy Package

Everything above, plus a written career retrospective, complete archive, and succession plan.

$1,550all-inclusive

Every engagement begins with the free assessment, and nothing is payable until you have reviewed and approved the completed work. If it never satisfies you, you owe nothing.

Also Available

Book microsite · $450 Lab & research group sites · from $1,500 Open courseware sites · by scope
Our Terms

Built on the one thing that matters to you: trust.

Zero upfront payment

We research and write first. You never pay a stranger in advance.

You approve before paying

Payment is due only once you have read and approved the completed work.

No guaranteed publication

Wikipedia's volunteer editors make the final decision. Anyone who promises otherwise is not being honest with you.

Honest assessments

If your record doesn't meet the standard, we will tell you plainly, and decline the commission.

Questions

Asked, and answered plainly.

No, and this protects you. Wikipedia's volunteer editors judge every article against their standards of notability and sourcing; the final decision is theirs, never ours. We only take on cases we assess as strong, we tell you our honest view before any work begins, and you pay nothing until you approve the completed draft. A service that guarantees publication is making a promise it cannot keep.

Then we will tell you exactly that, at no cost. The free assessment exists to give you a straight answer either way. Many accomplished careers don't yet meet Wikipedia's particular standard. In those cases we'll say so plainly, and where appropriate suggest what would serve your record better, such as a personal academic website you own outright.

Our team does all of it: locating independent published sources, verifying facts, and writing in the neutral, referenced style the record requires. Your involvement is a single review of the draft for factual accuracy, about an hour of your time in total. You write nothing.

Only after you have reviewed and approved the completed work. There is no deposit, no upfront fee, and no obligation during the assessment or drafting. If the work never satisfies you, you owe nothing.

You do. The domain is registered in your name and the site is yours entirely. The optional care plan covers hosting, security, and keeping your publications current, but you are never locked in.

The assessment takes a few days. A Wikipedia article is typically researched, drafted, and delivered for your review within two weeks of engagement. Websites are delivered within two weeks; the Digital Legacy Package is scoped individually, as the retrospective involves an interview with you.

Begin

Your career deserves a permanent record.

Request the free assessment. We'll give you an honest answer about what's achievable, even when the answer is "not Wikipedia."

Request the free assessment
Service · The Flagship

A Wikipedia article, researched and written properly.

Wikipedia is where the world looks first. If your career merits an article, it should exist: neutral, fully sourced, and made with care.

What this is

A concise, neutral biography of your career covering your research, publications, contributions, and recognition, built entirely from independent, published sources and written in the encyclopedic register Wikipedia requires. Not promotional. Not a profile. A record.

What we do

  • Assessment, free and honest. We review your record against Wikipedia's academic notability standards and tell you plainly whether an article is achievable. If it isn't, we say so and decline.
  • Research. We locate what has been independently published about you and your work: press coverage, the scholarly literature engaging your contributions, reviews, honors, and public records.
  • Drafting. We write the article, fully referenced, and deliver it for your review.
  • Your approval. One revision round is included. Nothing is submitted without your sign-off on factual accuracy.
  • Submission. We submit the article through Wikipedia's editorial process and keep you informed.

What we won't promise

Publication. Wikipedia's volunteer editors make the final decision on every article, and no honest service can guarantee their verdict. What we can promise: we take on only the cases we assess as strong, we tell you our reasoning, and you pay nothing until you've approved the completed draft.

$750 flat
$600 emeritus rate. Zero upfront. Free assessment first. Payment due only on your approval of the draft.
Service

An academic website worthy of the work it presents.

Your own domain. Your research, publications, and teaching. Organized, findable, and permanently yours.

What this is

A personal academic website, professionally designed and built for you: a biography, your research areas, a properly organized publications page, your teaching portfolio, and contact details, on a domain registered in your own name. The page former students, collaborators, and future researchers find first, long after institutional profiles go stale.

What's included

  • Domain registration in your name and complete technical setup. You do nothing.
  • Biography, research, publications, and teaching pages, carefully typeset.
  • Structured data so search engines present you correctly.
  • Delivered within two weeks; one revision round included.
  • An optional care plan at $25 per month covering hosting, security, and two publication-list updates per year, so the site never goes stale. Cancel anytime; the site remains yours.

Why not a website builder?

You could spend your weekends learning one. Our clients would rather not. This is done entirely for you, reviewed by you, and owned by you, with none of the drag-and-drop compromise that makes self-built academic sites look the way they do.

$500
Zero upfront. Care plan $25/month, optional. Payment due only on your approval of the finished site.
Service · The Complete Record

The Digital Legacy Package.

One commission. The complete, permanent record of a career, made to outlast the institutions that hosted it.

For whom

Emeritus and late-career professors who want the whole of it done, once, properly: the article, the website, the archive, and the story, assembled with the care a life's work deserves.

What's included

  • Wikipedia article, where your record meets the standard (assessed honestly, first, for free).
  • Personal academic website on your own domain, with the first year of care included.
  • Complete presence cleanup. Scholar, ORCID, LinkedIn, and university pages set right, plus your canonical biography in three lengths.
  • A written career retrospective, composed from an interview with you: not a CV, but the account of the career. What you built, why it mattered, and what it changed.
  • A complete archive of your publications and selected teaching materials, hosted on your site.
  • A succession plan, so the domain, the site, and the record persist beyond you.

The retrospective

The centerpiece, and available nowhere else on our menu. University pages record positions; a retrospective records a life in scholarship, written by us, in your review, from a long conversation with you. It is the document your former students, your family, and the historians of your field will actually read.

$1,550 all-inclusive
Zero upfront. Scoped individually after the free assessment. Staged approvals; payment follows your sign-off at each stage.
Free · No Obligation

The free notability assessment.

Tell us who you are. We'll review your record against Wikipedia's standards and give you a straight answer, even when the answer is "not Wikipedia."

The assessment reviews the independent, published record of your career (the scholarly literature engaging your work, press coverage, honors, and public records) against Wikipedia's notability standards for academics. It takes us a few days, costs nothing, and commits you to nothing. If the record supports an article, we'll show you why. If it doesn't, we'll say so plainly.

No payment details are requested, now or at any point before you approve completed work.

About

Why Scholar Archive exists.

Actors have representation. Companies have agencies. The people who spend their lives adding to human knowledge have a stale faculty page. We thought that was wrong.

What we believe

Scholarship of lasting value deserves a record of matching quality. A career's worth of research, teaching, and contribution should be findable, accurate, and permanent, not scattered across a decade-old Google Site, a duplicated Scholar profile, and a university page that disappears at retirement.

How we work

We are a small team of researchers, writers, and designers who do one thing: build the permanent record of academic careers. We work done-for-you, because our clients' time belongs to their work. We work on approval, because trust must be earned before it is paid for. And we work honestly, including telling you when Wikipedia is not achievable, and declining the commission.

Our standard

Every article, website, and archive we produce should be something a distinguished career can stand behind, and something we would be proud to have our name near. The website you are reading is built to the same standard we build for clients; consider it our first exhibit.