Publications
A publication is a piece of writing attached to your profile. You can edit it after publishing, and it keeps the same address when you do.
Creating one
Use New publication, choose a type, give it a title, and write. Nothing is visible to anyone else until you decide it is.
Types
The type does not change how your work is formatted. It changes how it is found, and how it is grouped on your profile.
| Type | For |
|---|---|
| Lecture | Lecture notes or slides for teaching a topic |
| Seminar | Reading-group or discussion-class material |
| Tutorial | Step-by-step, task-oriented how-to |
| Lab | Protocol and materials for a practical or experimental session |
| Problems | Problem sets and worked solutions |
| Talk | A speech or presentation you delivered |
| Theory | Impersonal exposition of a theoretical topic |
| Cheatsheet | One-page condensed recall – formulas, syntax |
| Reference | Comprehensive lookup – glossary, handbook entry |
| Notes | Working notes, study notes, preliminary thoughts |
| Essay | A structured argument in your own voice |
| Scientific Popular | Writing for a lay audience |
| Other | The catch-all, and the default |
A few distinctions that come up often:
- Lecture or Talk – course teaching material versus a one-off speech you gave.
- Cheatsheet or Reference – brevity versus completeness.
- Notes or Essay – unfinished versus finished.
- Theory or Essay – impersonal exposition versus your own argument.
- Problems or Seminar – a problem-solving class is Problems; a discussion class is Seminar.
Theses, preprints, and original research are not published here. Those are citable records that should never change once published, and LibreTimes content is editable by design. See what is planned.
Visibility
| Setting | Who can read it |
|---|---|
| Public | Anyone, including people who are not signed in |
| By link | Anyone with the address; not listed on your profile or in search |
| Private | Only you |
You can change this at any time. Moving a publication from public to private removes it from search and from your profile, but anyone who saved the text already has it – treat publishing as irreversible in that sense.
Categories and tags
Categories come from a fixed academic taxonomy. Pick the ones that genuinely fit; they are how readers browsing a field find you, and how the platform decides who to show your work to.
Tags are free text. They are for the specifics a category cannot express – a method, a theorem, a piece of software, a course code.
This is the part authors skip and then wonder why nothing gets read. An untagged, uncategorised publication is reachable by full-text search and by people already looking at your profile, and essentially nothing else.
Disclosing AI use
If you used a language model while writing, say so. The disclosure is a scale, not a checkbox:
| Level | Meaning |
|---|---|
| None | You wrote it |
| Assisted | You are the author; AI helped |
| Mostly AI | Primarily AI-generated, then edited by you |
| Fully AI | AI-generated, with little or no editing |
Readers can filter by this, and some will set it to "none". Using AI is not against the rules. Misrepresenting how much you used is a moderation matter – see Acceptable use.
Editing after publishing
Edit whenever you like. The publication keeps its address, so links and citations to it stay valid.
There is no version history yet – readers see the current text and cannot compare it against what was there before. If you are making a change significant enough that it matters, say so in the text. Version history is planned.
Attachments
Publications can carry supplementary files – data, slides, code, high resolution figures. See Attachments.
See also
- Markdown reference – everything you can write.
- Content licences – what readers may do with your work.
- Search and discovery.