About LibreTimes

LibreTimes is an open-source publishing platform for academic and educational work. Authors publish long-form, structured content on a profile that doubles as their academic CV.

It exists because teaching material has nowhere good to live. Preprint servers take research and not lecture notes. Institutional pages die when you change jobs. Personal sites do not render mathematics, do not carry citation weight, and do not connect to anything.

Who it is for

Lecturers, professors, teachers, and tutors publishing course material. Researchers and graduate students sharing expositions and worked problems. Students and self-learners looking for serious material. Anyone producing substantive written work in education or science.

What you publish

Content here is living: you can edit or delete it freely, and it stays at the same address. That is the opposite of a citable record, which is frozen once published, versioned, and withdrawn by retraction rather than deletion.

The types cover teaching material (lectures, seminars, tutorials, labs, problem sets), exposition (theory, talks, cheatsheets, references, popular science), and writing (essays, notes).

Everything renders the same way – Markdown with mathematics, code, diagrams, figures, and attachments – but the type drives how work is found and how it appears on your profile.

The profile is a CV

Not a social bio. Education, positions, teaching record, talks, grants, awards, skills, contacts, and researcher IDs sit alongside the work you publish, at libretimes.io/@yourhandle.

Each section has its own visibility. A phone number can be private while your publication list is public, and a section you have not filled in does not appear at all.

Authors without accounts

Not every author can sign up. Profiles can exist without an account for historical figures, deceased researchers, and authors whose work was matched from external sources such as CrossRef, arXiv, ORCID, Semantic Scholar, and PubMed.

This means a lecture can properly credit Hilbert, and it means that when someone whose work was already imported does join, they can claim the profile that already describes them rather than starting from an empty one.

Works carry a provenance level – verified, imported, or self-asserted – so the difference between "we matched this from CrossRef" and "the author typed this in" stays visible.

What LibreTimes is not

Not a journal. No editorial workflow, no peer review, no acceptance bar.
Not a preprint server. Research records belong somewhere citable and frozen; see what is planned.
Not a Q&A site. Stack Exchange and MathOverflow do that.
Not a competitive-programming platform. Codeforces and AtCoder do that.
Not an interactive-lessons site. Brilliant does that.
Not a social network for scientists. The profile is a CV, not a feed.

Licensing

Author content is CC-BY-SA-4.0 by default, and you can choose a different licence per publication. See Content licences.