Give every student, researcher and reporter statistics they can cite.
ctzn.pub publishes essays, interactive apps and charts built from decades of national survey data, with the source and method on every figure. It licenses like the reference databases your library already provides: campus-wide access, a free public layer, and an API for research computing.
What your patrons can use today
All of this is live and free to explore now.
Three tiers
Priced by institution size, with pricing shared during a pilot conversation. Reader is available now; Workbench and the API are being built with our pilot partners.
Reader
Every patron can check every number.
Campus-wide access to the essays, apps and charts. A student citing a number in a paper sees its source, method, and data vintage in one click — and your library can stand behind every figure it serves.
- Search across essays, apps and charts
- One-click provenance on every figure: dataset, vintage, method
- Campus-wide IP-range access — nobody manages seats
Workbench
Your faculty and students build with the data.
Instructors assign real analyses; students and researchers compose briefs, articles, and slide decks from verified components — every number in their own work carrying the same provenance as the library’s.
- Compose briefs and decks from existing charts and analyses
- Swap variables, geographies, years, and subgroups on an existing analysis
- Export to HTML, PDF, or a presentation deck
API
Your research computing groups query it directly.
REST and MCP access for computational researchers, campus data services, and newsroom tooling — the same verified claims, delivered to code and to AI agents.
- REST access to cards, claims, and chart payloads
- MCP server access for AI research agents
- Graph-traversal access to the catalog (datasets → methods → articles)
Built for how libraries provide access
Set up with each pilot institution.
Campus-wide IP access
Access by campus IP range, so no one on campus needs to log in. It's how most libraries first provide a reference database.
SSO
Single sign-on for pilot institutions, with OpenAthens and Shibboleth support as institutions need it.
Usage reporting
Usage reports for each institution, to support renewals. We record usage from the start, so COUNTER-compliant reports can follow.
Founding-partner pilot program
We're looking for 2–3 pilot institutions — ideally where a faculty member already relies on this kind of survey work — to help shape the Reader and Workbench tiers in exchange for founding-partner pricing and early access. In return, we ask for feedback and (with your permission) a citable case study.
info@ctzn.pubRequest a demo
Tell us about your institution and what you're trying to do, and we'll set up a walkthrough of the library and the Workbench tools.
info@ctzn.pub