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Introduction

LibreTimes is a scientific and educational network. You publish your teaching, research, and writing – lectures, worked problems, theory writeups, essays, notes – on a profile that doubles as your academic CV, and you find the people whose work you actually read.

It exists because teaching material has nowhere good to live. Preprint servers take research and not lecture notes. Institutional pages disappear when you change jobs. Personal sites do not render mathematics properly, carry no citation weight, and connect to nothing.

Who it is for

  • Lecturers and professors publishing course material
  • Teachers and tutors publishing lessons and problem sets
  • Researchers writing expositions, notes, and talks
  • Students and self-learners looking for serious material across disciplines

What you can publish

Teaching material (lectures, seminars, tutorials, labs, problem sets), exposition (theory, talks, cheatsheets, references, popular science), and writing (essays, notes). Everything renders as Markdown with mathematics, code, diagrams, figures, and attachments.

All of it is living content: you can edit or delete it freely and it keeps the same address. Theses, preprints, and original research are deliberately not published here – those are citable records that should never change once published. See what is planned.

What it combines

Four things that usually live in four separate places, on one address:

A public profile page. A real academic CV – education, positions, teaching, talks, grants, awards, skills, contacts, researcher IDs – that you write, with per-section visibility, at libretimes.io/@yourusername. It moves with you when you change institution.

A publishing surface. Long-form structured writing with mathematics that renders, code, diagrams, figures, and attachments. Teaching material is a first-class output here rather than the thing that gets left off.

A citation library. Your whole publication record, including work published elsewhere and matched automatically from external databases, each entry marked with where it came from. Citation tooling sits in the editor, and everything published here can be cited back.

A network. Follows, comments, and direct messages, so the work connects to the people reading it. It is deliberately not an attention machine: nothing ranks you for posting more often, and no number on your profile stands in for your standing in a field.

What it is not

  • Not a journal. No editorial workflow, no peer review, no acceptance bar.
  • Not a preprint server. Citable frozen records are a separate product; see what is planned.
  • Not a Q&A forum.
  • Not an interactive-lessons site.
  • Not a competitive-programming site.

What you get

  • Mathematics that works. Inline and display formulae, long expressions that scroll rather than overflow, and a shared macro set so you are not redefining \R in every document.
  • A profile that is a CV. Education, positions, teaching, talks, grants, awards, and skills, each with its own visibility.
  • Your whole publication record, including work published elsewhere, matched automatically from external sources when you link your ORCID.
  • Attachments up to 100 MB per file.
  • Write in any language. Content is tagged by the language it is written in, with no shortlist. The interface is in five so far – English, Russian, French, German, and Chinese – and more are added as they are translated.
  • Credit for authors who cannot sign up. Profiles exist for historical figures and for authors whose work was matched from external databases, so attribution does not depend on someone having an account.
  • A licence you choose, per publication, including the Creative Commons range and public domain. See Content licences.

LibreTimes is invite-only for now.

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