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Every course, guide, and tool in the Academy, in one place. All of it free, and none of it needs an account to start.

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From the course

2 modules of The Submission-Ready System cover this. Free to read, no account.

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Journal fit finder

Describe the paper and get a shortlist of journals it actually fits, with the scope language each one uses to decide.

Tool Instant No account

Where a journal actually states its rules

Scope, package, review model and editorial decisions traced to the official publisher pages that state them, with the review date on every source and the whole dataset open.

Data Official sources Versioned CSV and JSON

Teaching the source map in a class or a lab meeting

A ready-to-run session on finding where a journal states its requirements, built on the source map. Made for librarians and supervisors to use as it is.

Tutorial For librarians and supervisors Ready to run

What 90 official journal sources show

Reproducible findings from the Source Map corpus, with exact counts, study boundaries, open files and deposit-ready citation metadata.

Data Original findings Open data Citable

Acceptance rates by journal

Acceptance rates across publishers, each labeled as publisher-reported, reported or an estimate. A journal statistic, not the odds for your paper.

Data Labeled by source Free

Peer review timelines by journal

Median time from submission to acceptance for research articles, measured from PubMed records, with first-decision times alongside, so you can plan a submission rather than guess at it.

Data Measured from PubMed CSV Free

How to identify a predatory journal

The red flags, the verification steps, and the harder question underneath: what separates a predatory venue from a legitimate low-tier one.

Guide Free

Preprint release decision

Run a go/no-go gate across journal policy, author consent, intellectual property, ethics, public claims and version stewardship.

Guide Guide + PDF Free

Journal metrics: impact factor, CiteScore, SJR, h-index

What each metric measures, how they differ, and which one answers the question you are actually asking.

Guide Free

Interpret Journal Impact Factor responsibly

Verify the edition, inspect the formula and citation distribution, reject invalid uses, and make a reproducible interpretation record.

Guide Guide PDF

The journal intelligence atlas

Benchmark records, field maps, review timing, submission requirements and fee structures, browsable rather than searched one journal at a time.

Collection Free

Journal selection and fit

Scope fit, novelty checks, journal comparisons, and how to read a selective journal honestly before you spend three months on it.

Collection Guide collection

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