For libraries, writing centers, and research offices
Add one clear resource to a LibGuide, workshop, or researcher-support page. It gives authors a practical route to choose a journal, prepare a submission, and verify what the official guidance actually says.
Start with the decision in front of them
The toolkit is the default. These focused routes are useful when a researcher has reached a recognisable publishing decision or you are teaching that decision directly.
The Journal Submission Source Map helps researchers find the official journal, publisher, society, and author-center pages that govern a real submission question.
30 journals · version 1.8
Open the Source Map
The research manuscript submission checklist turns common publication tasks into an evidence-linked workspace that a researcher can use on their own draft.
Free · permanent HTML page and PDF
Open the checklist
A short facilitator activity and worksheet help researchers distinguish a visible journal instruction from an inference, then record the next verification step.
20 minutes · plan and worksheet
Open the teaching kit
For instruction and workshops
These routes help facilitators pair a concept with a concrete researcher task. They can support theACRL information-literacy framework, but should always be adapted to local learning outcomes and disciplinary context.
Searching as strategic exploration
Use the literature-search worksheet to have researchers name concepts, test search terms, and preserve a search record they can revisit later.
Open the search worksheet
Authority is contextual
Use the Source Map teaching kit to distinguish a journal rule from a helpful summary, then have learners record the source they need to verify.
Open the teaching kit
Information creation is a process
Pair a short Academy path with the submission checklist so researchers can connect a learning concept to a concrete action on their draft.
Open the submission course
For library staff
Start with the toolkit unless you have a narrower teaching or consultation need. Each placement below is free to open, clear about its scope, and ready to adapt for local services or policy.
Keep your local consultation, access, funding, repository, and research-integrity support visible alongside it. Manusights covers portable publishing workflows; your institution remains the authority for its services and policies.
Recommended default
The one link to add to a general publishing, graduate-research, or writing-support guide. Researchers choose their next task from there.
Suggested guide tags: Scholarly communication · Graduate research · Writing support
For a class or self-guided learner
A guided path for someone who needs to learn the publishing process, not just find one answer today.
Suggested guide tags: Publishing literacy · Graduate students · Research skills
For journal-selection support
A citable, versioned map of where official journal submission rules live, with a published DOI and clear CC BY 4.0 reuse terms.
Suggested guide tags: Journal selection · Author services · Research data
For a journal-comparison workshop
A maintained, source-led comparison of the requirement that most changes a submission package. Use it when researchers have a shortlist and need to see how the journals differ before reformatting.
Suggested guide tags: Journal comparison · Submission workshops · Author consultations
Evidence and reuse
The teaching and evidence resources publish their scope, version, source material, review date, and reuse boundary. Researchers should always recheck the live official journal guidance before submission.
Inspect the evidence and methods