- Release
- v1.8
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-28
- Coverage
- 30 journals · 90 official sources
- Status
- Maintained public study
Manusights open research
Evidence for the decisions between a manuscript and submission.
Trace official journal rules, compare the requirements that change a submission package, and inspect the support researchers can actually find. Every asset publishes its sources, method, limitations, version, and review date.
Free to inspect. Maintained as evidence infrastructure, not as a directory of unverifiable claims or a journal-ranking product.
Start with your job
What are you trying to do?
You do not need to understand the whole research system first. Pick the task that matches the decision in front of you.
01Authors and research teams
Prepare a journal submission
Trace the official pages that govern your submission, then save a journal-specific evidence pack.
Build a source path02Editors, librarians, and authors
Compare requirements
See which package-changing instructions vary across the journals in the maintained pilot.
Compare journal rules03Instructors and writing centers
Teach source verification
Use a ready-made worksheet, syllabus language, and an attributed dataset in a course or workshop.
Open the teaching kit04Research-support leaders
Audit visible support
Inspect the public evidence for how institutions support researchers from discovery through publication.
Inspect the calibrationManusights open research
One publishing system, three evidence layers
Each asset answers a different question. Together they move from the official rule, to the requirement it creates, to the institutional support available to act on it.
- Layer 1Maintained public study
Where do the official rules live?
Journal Submission Source Map
Trace the journal, publisher, society, and policy pages an author must reconcile before submission.
- Coverage
- 30 journals · 90 official sources
- Version and review date
- v1.8 · reviewed 2026-08-28
Indexable, downloadable, versioned, and open for reuse under CC BY 4.0.
Trace the source paths - Layer 2Maintained public pilot
What changes from journal to journal?
Journal Requirements Observatory
Compare the package-changing requirement, official evidence, and verification status for each journal in the pilot.
- Coverage
- 21 journals · 15 publishers
- Version and review date
- v1.5 · reviewed 2026-08-31
Indexable, downloadable, and intentionally scoped as a pilot rather than a complete directory.
Compare the requirements - Layer 3Calibration release
Can researchers find support at their institution?
Research Publishing Support Observatory
Audit the public support infrastructure that helps researchers move from literature search through publication.
- Coverage
- 187 institutions · 50 first-pass audits
- Version and review date
- 2026.08-calibration-3 · reviewed 2026-08-28
Not indexed until independent review and the institutional correction window are complete.
Inspect the calibration release
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Maintained releases
Use the current evidence, or inspect how it changed.
Version, coverage, method, data, and history travel together. No release is silently replaced.
- Release
- v1.5
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-31
- Coverage
- 21 journals · 15 publishers
- Status
- Maintained public pilot
- Release
- 2026.08-calibration-3
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-28
- Coverage
- 187 institutions · 50 first-pass audits
- Status
- Calibration release
Built to travel with attribution
Cite it, teach with it, or build on it.
Useful research should leave the page. The reuse desk shows what to cite, where to link, which release to download, and which evidence boundaries must travel with every asset.
Start hereChoose the right evidence and linkCitations, data, licensing, and release state for all three assetsFor reportsReuse attributed findings and chartsPortable SVG views with visible provenanceFor teachingRun a source-verification exerciseWorksheet, syllabus copy, and datasetFor softwareUse the API and data packageOpenAPI, CSV, JSON, and release metadataFor workshopsCompare two journals around a real requirement25-minute facilitator plan and learner worksheet
Trust is part of the interface
What is verified, and what is still in progress?
Source Map and Requirements Observatory
Public, versioned releases tied to named official sources. Their purposive scope is explicit and should not be read as a complete census of journals.
Support Observatory calibration
First-pass evidence audits are visible for review, but indexing remains disabled until independent review and the institutional correction window are complete.
Corrections remain inspectable
Each asset links its methodology and version history. Evidence owners can submit an official source for review instead of asking readers to trust a silent edit.
Research briefs
Analysis beyond the open datasets
Original analysis · 5,495 manuscripts
2026 Manuscript Findings Report
Aggregated, de-identified evidence on the risks found before submission.
Read the research Publishing integrity briefThe verification gap in scientific publishing
Why reference-level verification is becoming necessary publishing infrastructure.
Read the research Technical trust noteManuscript data handling and confidentiality boundaries
What manuscript privacy claims should, and should not, imply.
Read the researchPut the evidence to work
Choose the help that matches your next move.
Use Resources when you need a direct answer or a focused check today. Use Academy when you want to learn the publishing workflow from start to finish. The research library remains the source and method layer behind both.