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WorldbyFlow for academic and research librarians

You teach provenance for a living. WorldbyFlow models it: every read carries a fact ledger grading each claim by how it is grounded, and the primary documents scan reproduces excerpts verbatim with pinpoint citations, which makes it both a research tool and a teaching example.

Written for Supports research and teaches information literacy at a university.·Runs in the Learning domain

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Where this fits in your week

Supporting research and teaching information literacy are the same skill pointed two ways. The scans here serve both: primary documents excerpted with citations, a dated chronology with contested points marked, a myth held against the record for the literacy session, a breakdown of a canonical book, a literature review with disagreements intact, and a survey of a field for the researcher who has just changed topic.

Lead scan

Primary Documents

3 credits · in-depth · about 2–4 min

Verbatim excerpts with pinpoint citations, contested readings marked and gaps stated. The document work students are meant to learn, demonstrated.

Try it on: a subject you already hold an opinion about, so you can grade the result against what you know.
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Chronology

3 credits

A dated, sourced timeline with contested dates flagged. A research aid and a lesson in why dates need sources.

Try it on The Watergate scandal · The Manhattan Project · The civil rights movement

Myths & Misconceptions

2 credits

A belief everyone repeats held against what the record shows, with the evidence for the correction. The information literacy session's worked example.

Try it on Einstein failed maths · We only use ten percent of our brains · Napoleon was short

Book Breakdown

3 credits

A canonical book broken down: argument, evidence, reception, critics. The guide for a reader meeting the text for the first time.

Try it on The Origin of Species · The Wealth of Nations · Silent Spring · The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

Literature Review

4 credits

What the scholarship says on a question, disagreements treated as findings. The starting point for a researcher's own review.

Try it on How open access affects citation · What makes information literacy training work · Whether library use predicts student success

Field Study

4 credits

A whole field surveyed: questions, methods, canonical works, live debates. The orientation for a researcher new to an area.

Try it on Library science · Bibliometrics · The history of the book
A working path

From a first run to a result you can hand over

The order matters. The first read gives you the structure; the next ones fill the parts that are hardest to source by hand.

01

Run Primary Documents on a text you teach with

Check the citations against the original. The exercise you would set students, run on the tool.

3 credits
02

Run Myths and Misconceptions for the literacy session

A belief, the record, the evidence. The worked example for the session on checking claims.

2 credits
03

Run Literature Review for the researcher at the desk

The scholarship with its disagreements. The starting bibliography, in minutes.

4 credits
04

Export the citations

BibTeX, RIS or CSL in one click. The same formats you teach.

No credits.
The research bill for this path
3 + 2 + 4 = 9 credits · a Standard plan carries 20 a month
What comes back

A result whose claims carry their grades

Sourced, not asserted

Every figure and quote links to where it came from. A claim the scan could not source is marked as such rather than dressed up.

Verified or grounded
Reported or attributed
Contested
Open question

Ready to hand over

Export the sources in BibTeX, RIS or CSL for the researcher, or share the read as a page on the library guide.

Built to be argued with

Ask a follow-up question of any result, or run a Red Team pass that tries to break its own conclusions before someone else does. How the grades work →

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Research already published in this shape

The National Teacher Shortage: Causes

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The national teacher shortage is best understood as primarily a retention crisis layered on top of a real but secondary pipeline decline: the specialist literature, led by Ingersoll's organizational-turnover framework and…

Myths & Misconceptions · September 16, 2026
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Run Primary Documents on something you already know

The fastest way to judge the result is to pick a subject you know cold and read it against what you know. If a colleague sent you here with an invitation, the credits land on your account when you sign up.

Start with Primary Documents →Standard plan from $10/mo · 20 credits · all plans
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