◇ Personalise · the network re-computes around you

See your path through the commons.

The homepage map shows how the whole sector connects. This one is different: paste your ORCID iD and — right here in your browser — NTLSN reads your public record, aggregates your discipline, and lights up the single best path through the commons for you. Every glowing destination is a real page.

◌ Free, and genuinely private. We don't sell, on-sell, profile, or store your data — this is only to personalise your view of the commons.
Or see a typical path by faculty:
◇ New to OpenAlex? What it is, and why this is safe›

OpenAlex is a free, open catalogue of the world's research — over 250 million papers, books and datasets and who wrote them. It's run by a non-profit (OurResearch) and was built as the open successor to Microsoft's academic index. NTLSN simply looks up what you've published there, reads the topics, and matches them to teaching resources — the same way a library catalogue helps you find a book.

  • Free — no cost, ever. OpenAlex is a public good, and so is everything on NTLSN.
  • No login, no account, nothing to sign up for. You paste your iD; that's the whole ask.
  • It reads only your public record — the same works anyone can already see on your ORCID page. Nothing private is touched.
  • Nothing is sent to NTLSN, stored, or sold. The lookup happens in your browser and vanishes when you close the tab.
  • DORA-aligned: we never score your ‘impact’. No citation counts, no h-index, no journal rankings — those don't measure teaching.

Record looks thin or wrong? That's normal — OpenAlex is built automatically, so new academics, name changes, or works published under a different name can be missing or misfiled. It's not a judgement of your work. You can claim and correct your record for free at OpenAlex or ORCID, and it flows through over time. Or skip the lookup entirely — pick your faculty above and the path is built with no data from you at all.

Paste your ORCID above, or pick a faculty, to light your path. Hover any node to see why it's there; click it to open the real page.

Contextualisewe read your real context

NTLSN reads your public record from OpenAlex — your discipline down to its sub-field, the topics you actually publish on, your career stage and how you collaborate. Not a survey you fill in; the record you already have.

Standardisethe same rules for everyone

Every academic is read with the identical, published rules. Nobody is ranked against anyone else — no citation counts, no h-index, no journal prestige. The same DORA-aligned principle behind our SoTL Index: a fair signal, never a league table.

Personaliseyour best next step

From your context we light the one path through the commons most likely to help your teaching next — and the strands around it, honestly labelled by why they're there. A starting point, not a verdict.

Same philosophy as the SoTL Index — a described, DORA-aligned reading of your teaching scholarship. This front door routes you; the Index describes your footprint.

Live now: 250+ discipline signals · — contextual reads for you · more coming.

How the path is chosen. We read your public works from OpenAlex (an open scholarly index), summarise your fields, and detect education- and teaching-related scholarship. The bright path is the resource your own topics match most strongly; fainter lines are relevant to your field. It's a starting point, not a verdict — the quality depends on how complete your public record is. Crash courses are practitioner syntheses of sector good practice, honestly attributed on each page.

◇ AI field guide — the current flowing along your best path is animated, not intelligent — much like the em-dashes (—) a chatbot leaves behind. Real signal, honest tell.