2026 calibration study / Prelaunch review
Browse 50 reviewed profiles in the 187-institution Carnegie R1 universe. The other institutions remain unscored. This is a nonrepresentative calibration, not a ranking or a measure of research quality; the results cannot estimate national prevalence.
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Showing 12 of 50 matching profiles
ASU presents research and publishing support as one connected journey, with especially clear routes to consultations, publication strategy, and public-access compliance.
Standout signal: One coherent researcher-support entry point spanning project planning through dissemination.
Boston University provides a solid research-help foundation with clear repository and open-publishing infrastructure.
Standout signal: OpenBU gives researchers a visible institutional route to preserve and share scholarship.
Brown exposes a connected research-support journey with particularly strong publishing, rights, data, and consultation services.
Standout signal: A central hub routes researchers from evidence discovery through publication and preservation.
Carnegie Mellon is strongest in data-intensive and digital research support, backed by actionable consultation services.
Standout signal: Research-data support spans planning, active work, sharing, preservation, and compliance.
Case Western offers credible data and librarian support, with the public research-publishing journey spread across units.
Standout signal: The research-data hub gives researchers a practical cross-campus route for stewardship and compliance.
Columbia combines strong data stewardship with substantial open-scholarship and publishing infrastructure.
Standout signal: The Libraries support more than 30 open-access scholarly journals with publishing infrastructure and consultation.
Cornell makes an unusually broad set of research-support services discoverable, including evidence synthesis and AI literacy in addition to publishing and copyright help.
Standout signal: Evidence synthesis and AI critical literacy are visible alongside conventional publishing support.
Duke provides a mature distributed support system spanning discovery, data stewardship, publishing rights, and preservation.
Standout signal: Research-data and scholarly-communication services are both established and consultation-led.
Emory combines robust data services with strong scholarly-communication support and direct expert access.
Standout signal: Publishing rights and data stewardship are both supported by identifiable specialist services.
Georgetown offers dependable research and data support, with publishing help spread across multiple institutional units.
Standout signal: Library and research-office routes together cover both discovery and data-compliance needs.
Georgia Tech provides an especially actionable research and data-support pathway, with room to strengthen manuscript-stage visibility.
Standout signal: Clear consultation and instruction routes connect researchers quickly to data and subject expertise.
Harvard exposes a deep support network across research discovery, data, repositories, scholarly communication, and consultations, though the experience spans several university units.
Standout signal: A broad, well-connected infrastructure for data stewardship and sharing research outputs.
Portable evidence brief
Calibration brief and institutional audit worksheet
Six tagged pages explain the sample, rubric, descriptive findings, limitations, reuse terms, and a blank six-dimension audit record.
The evidence model
A missing public signal is not proof that a university offers no support. It means the reviewed official pages did not make that support reliably discoverable. Any reader can submit an official source for correction.
How profiles are verified
Official pages, explicit observations, correction history.
A weighted composite remains in the downloadable data so the method is reproducible, but profiles are not ordered or presented as a league table.
A researcher can find a coherent support hub, subject expertise, and a clear route to help.
The institution offers practical help with searching, evidence synthesis, citations, and research discovery.
Researchers can find guidance for writing, reporting, publication strategy, and preparing work for submission.
Public support covers publishing options, open access, rights, repositories, and author-cost questions.
Researchers can access data-management, reproducibility, research-integrity, and responsible-AI guidance.
Help is actionable through consultations, workshops, templates, accessible pages, and current maintenance.
Reuse and citation
Original Manusights assessments are released under CC BY 4.0. The R1 sampling frame is based on the Carnegie Classifications 2025 Research Activity Designations, whose source terms continue to apply to Carnegie-derived fields.
Manusights. (2026). Research Publishing Support Observatory: public calibration study (Version 2026.09-public-calibration-1; reviewed 2026-09-15). https://manusights.com/resources/research-publishing-support-index
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Version 2026.09-public-calibration-1 · Reviewed 2026-09-15
Manusights open research
Use the asset that matches the question you are trying to answer. Each layer publishes its scope, evidence status, review date, and limitations.
Where do the official rules live?
Trace the journal, publisher, society, and policy pages an author must reconcile before submission.
Indexable, downloadable, versioned, and open for reuse under CC BY 4.0.
Trace the source pathsWhat changes from journal to journal?
Compare the package-changing requirement, official evidence, and verification status for each journal in the pilot.
Indexable, downloadable, and intentionally scoped as a pilot rather than a complete directory.
Compare the requirementsCan researchers find support at their institution?
Audit the public support infrastructure that helps researchers move from literature search through publication.
Not indexed until independent review and the institutional correction window are complete. Downloadable and bounded to 50 nonrepresentative evidence profiles within the complete R1 universe.
Current datasetMake this evidence useful
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Use the evidence responsibly
The Observatory is a bounded, evidence-linked support map, not a university ranking. Review the protocol or use the Library Kit to help researchers find support at the moment they need it.
