ORBIT is a research publishing pipeline — four stages, ten tools, one shared credit pool. Four tools are free. Six cost credits. Discover what to read, check what you wrote, submit it, and present it.
Discover — find what to build on
Literature Discovery — search about 250 million papers, see which are legally free to read, export them. Search is free; one extra credit ranked them against your own abstract.
Dataset Discovery — search about 73 million research datasets across Zenodo, figshare, Dryad and more. Every result states its reuse licence. Completely free, no credit at any point.
Check — is the paper ready to send?
Paper Readiness Check — 122+ checks across 12 categories against a journal's own submission rules, before you submit. 11 journals available; 8 transcribed from the publisher's own page. 1 credit for a style system, 2 for a named journal. The manuscript never leaves your browser.
Reference Check — every reference resolved against Crossref, OpenAlex and DataCite, arXiv preprints included: retractions, entries that no longer resolve, and metadata that disagrees with the published record. In manuscript mode it also names citations with no entry and entries nothing cites. 1 credit for a list, 2 for a manuscript; restyling and the .docx are free.
Submit — put it in the right form and place
Format Paper — apply one of 21 templates (IEEE, ACM, Elsevier, Springer, Nature, ACS, MDPI, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Frontiers, PLOS ONE, IOP Publishing, Cell Press, BMC, SAGE, APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, AMA and Vancouver) to your .docx, or upload your own template. 1 credit for a built-in template, 2 for your own. Figures, tables, equations and numbering survive because the file is edited rather than rebuilt.
Figure Builder — charts from your tables, diagrams from your text. Drop a CSV, TSV or XLSX for one of 45 figure types offered only where the table's shape supports them (cell values never leave the browser), or paste text for a flowchart, a PRISMA or CONSORT flow diagram, a hypothesis model and more, in your own words. SVG, PNG to 1200 DPI or true vector PDF. 1 credit reads a table or a text; every layout and export after that is free.
Journal Suggestion — paste your abstract and get journals that publish your subject, with the real cost to publish, open-access status and whether they still publish. Free.
Submission Letters — draft the cover letter, the resubmission letter after revision, or the transfer letter to a new journal, from your title and abstract, with marked blanks everywhere it would otherwise invent a name or a funder. 1 credit; the text is never stored.
Conference Deadlines — upcoming submission deadlines for computer science and AI conferences, rebuilt daily. Free, no signup, each links to the conference's own page.
Present — turn the paper into a talk
Paper to Slides — turn a finished .docx into a slide deck. Outline mode keeps your words; Narrated mode plans the talk, designs each slide and writes timed speaker notes. 1 credit for Outline, 3 for Narrated. The file is never stored.
One pool, not ten prices
On the free Base plan you get 5 free credits and 10 searches in each free tool every month. Starter (₹799 a month or ₹8,630 a year) and Ultra (₹1,499 a month or ₹16,190 a year) give 10 and 25 credits every 30 days, 20 and 50 searches, and a Library; they renew on their own until you turn auto-renew off, or you can buy a 30-day pass that does not renew. Top-ups cost ₹150 a credit in packs of 5, 10 or 15 and do not expire while the account is active. Most things cost one credit; a readiness check against a named journal and a conversion to your own uploaded template cost 2. Plan credits cover all of it, and no card is kept on file. The exception is a university email address: until its institution sets up ORBIT, it joins a waitlist for that institution instead of getting free credits, and it can still buy credits.
Top-ups: 5 credits for ₹750, 10 credits for ₹1,500, 15 credits for ₹2,250.
What ORBIT does not do
It does not parse, renumber or convert citations, and does not map in-text citations to bibliography entries.
It does not reorder, rewrite or summarise sections. Formatting changes how the document is typeset, never what it says.
It does not guarantee acceptance. Formatting is one thing a desk editor checks; scope, novelty and quality are not things software can judge.
It does not accept files over 4.5 MB, or anything that is not a .docx.
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