◇ Personalise · 30 seconds

Start with your ORCID.

Paste your ORCID iD and NTLSN reads your public scholarly record — right here in your browser — to build a starting point that's actually yours: a snapshot of your work, your SoTL footprint, and the commons resources most likely to help your teaching.

◌ 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.

The lookup runs entirely in your browser against OpenAlex's public API.
Your ORCID iD is never sent to NTLSN, never stored on our servers, never sold.
Nothing is saved unless you choose to — close the tab and it's gone.
Honest caveat: to look up your public record, your browser does send your iD to OpenAlex. That's the only place it goes.

iD Your ORCID iD

◇ 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, and you can claim and correct your record for free at OpenAlex or ORCID — it flows through over time. Either way, the picks below are a starting point, not a verdict.

How the picks are chosen. We read your public works from OpenAlex (an open scholarly index), summarise your fields, and detect education- and teaching-related scholarship to estimate your SoTL footprint. Recommendations blend your field with universally useful practice — they're a starting point, not a verdict, and 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 — before you paste your ORCID — notice the em-dashes (—)? The machine’s tell, and now yours to spot.