Your profile
Your profile is an academic CV that lives at libretimes.io/@yourhandle. It is
the same page whether someone arrives from a search engine, from one of your
publications, or from a citation, so it is worth filling in properly.
The basics
- Display name – how your name appears everywhere. Free text, and it can be written differently in each language you support.
- Handle – your address and how people mention you. See Handles and display names.
- Photo and cover image.
- Biography – a few sentences. Readers use it to decide whether your work is relevant to them.
- Affiliation and position – shown next to your name on everything you publish.
- Interests – the categories you follow. They shape what you are shown, and the ones you leave visible help people in your field find you.
CV sections
Add as many entries as apply; empty sections do not appear on your profile at all.
| Section | What goes in it |
|---|---|
| Education | Schooling, degrees, courses, certifications |
| Positions | Employment, internships, consulting, visiting appointments |
| Teaching | Courses taught, teaching roles |
| Talks | Keynotes, invited talks, colloquia, conference presentations, posters, panels |
| Funding | Grants, fellowships, scholarships, prizes |
| Projects | Research, software, engineering, open source |
| Achievements | Awards, honours, diplomas, certificates, memberships, recommendations |
| Involvement | Peer review, editorial work, committees, organising, mentoring, outreach |
| Skills | Methods, techniques, tools, languages |
Alongside these sit your contacts (email, phone, address, links, personal site) and your researcher IDs.
Visibility
Every section has its own visibility, so you can publish your teaching record while keeping your phone number to yourself. Four levels:
| Level | Who can see it |
|---|---|
| Public | Anyone, including people who are not signed in |
| Signed in | Anyone with an account |
| Connections | People you are mutually connected to |
| Only me | Just you |
The levels nest: someone who qualifies as a connection also sees everything marked signed-in and public.
If you are not allowed to see a section, it does not appear as a locked or greyed-out box – it is simply absent. There is no way to tell from the outside whether a hidden section is empty or restricted, which is the point.
Works
Your works list is separate from what you publish on LibreTimes. It is your whole publication record, including work published elsewhere, and each entry carries where it came from:
- Verified – confirmed against an authoritative source
- Imported – matched automatically from an external database such as CrossRef, arXiv, ORCID, Semantic Scholar, or PubMed
- Self-asserted – you entered it
Linking your ORCID is what makes automatic matching work. Without it, matching relies on your name, which is unreliable for common names and for anyone who has published under more than one.
Profiles without accounts
Some profiles on LibreTimes belong to people who never signed up – historical figures, deceased researchers, and authors whose work was matched from external databases. They exist so that work can be credited properly.
If you find a profile that is describing you, you can claim it rather than starting a second one from scratch. Contact us if the claim process does not offer it automatically.
Writing a profile worth reading
Fill in the biography. A profile with nine CV sections and no prose reads like a database record.
Put your current position first and keep it current – it is the single field most readers look at.
Do not pad the skills section. A list of forty items tells a reader nothing; a list of six tells them what you actually do.