The free source list.
Most papers go wrong in the first ten minutes, when the sources are whatever came up first. Pupilist gives you the ten worth opening for each topic, free, full text, and checked by a person. The rest of the paper is yours. Here is the whole road.
Find your topicClick your topic. Open all ten. Read across them in one sitting. Every link is free, opens to the full text, and has a named author or institution behind it, or is the document itself. See how we check.
A fact without its number is a fact you'll have to find again at midnight.
It's usually where two sources disagree, or where one of them surprised you. That's your paper.
Each one rests on at least one of your sources. If a point has no source, it's an opinion, and it goes last or goes away.
Keep the numbers in while you write. They come out at the end, when they become your citations.
Open the source, find the line, confirm it says what you said. If you used an AI to draft, this is the step that makes the result honest: give it only your ten sources, make it number every sentence, then check the numbers yourself.
Title, author, host, and the date you opened it are already on your list. Copy them into whatever format your teacher asked for.
It's the step nobody teaches and everybody skips. A search returns a million pages and no way to tell which ones a historian would trust. Wikipedia is fast and unsigned. The good scholarship is often behind a paywall. The real documents are online, in the Library of Congress and the National Archives and a hundred other open archives, but they're sorted by collection, not by person, so finding the ten pages about one topic takes a librarian's afternoon.
For every topic on the list, we search the whole web, open every candidate, and keep only what is free, full text, and signed or primary. A person reads each one before it goes up and writes the date beside it. Where we look is public: the approved sources page names every site we draw from. Where we never look is on the same page, with the reasons: paywalled sites, crowd-sourced sites like Wikipedia, and unsigned pages.
That's the whole service. You get the ten. You write the paper.
Teachers and librarians: send your students here for step 1, so the sources are solid before the writing starts.
Access for all. No library nearby, no campus login, no budget for paywalls? Rural, community-college, and homeschool students: this is your library.
Good habits. Put a source number after every sentence that came from a source. What's left is your own thinking, and you can see exactly how much of it there is.
Live links. Every link is re-checked, and the date beside it tells you when a person last opened it. Nothing here leads to a dead page.
We use AI for the one thing it does better than anyone: scanning the internet. For each topic it searches the whole web, finds the pages with the most information on that subject, and counts the sentences so we know which ones are worth your time. Then a person opens every one.
We don't use AI to write finished work, and we don't encourage you to. The growth that comes from producing original work is yours, and we don't want AI to take it from you. What AI should take off your hands is the tedious part: hours of sorting through noise dressed up as legitimate material.
We want you to read books, peer-reviewed journal articles, and the other writing that is hard to reach. We also know that isn't an option for everyone, for the reasons above, and time is a barrier of its own. Pupilist is the free shelf. Down the road we may add a paid option with a broader approved reading list, because that access would cost money to build; the free list will stay free.