How to create public lists of preprints on Sciety

a year ago   •   3 min read

By Mark Williams
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Sciety offers researchers a place to collect and organise preprints in publicly shareable lists. Help others discover the latest preprints in your field by creating your own lists of papers you find interesting, want to highlight or want to save for later. Each list has a unique link that you can share with others.

Saving articles to your list

When you create an account on Sciety, you are automatically assigned your first list. You can use this to save preprints straight away.

  1. Sign up or login to your Sciety account
  2. Navigate to an article page and choose 'Save article' to save it to your list
Article page on Sciety with the 'Save article' button highlighted
Article page on Sciety with the 'Save article' button highlighted

Adding context to your list

Your first list is given a generic title based on your handle. For example, @ajeff183's saved articles. When you share your list with others, you may want to provide further context to help readers understand your collection.

  1. Navigate to your list and choose 'Edit list details'
List page on Sciety with Edit list details button highlighted
List page on Sciety with Edit list details button highlighted

2. In the 'Edit list details' form follow the prompt to give your list a title and any further description that readers might find helpful

Edit list details page on Sciety
Edit list details page on Sciety

3. Choose 'Save' to view your updates

List page with updated description
List page with updated description 

Managing more than one list

If you would like to categorise your collections, Sciety lets you create multiple lists of preprints. To do this:

  1. Navigate to your lists and choose 'Create new list'
Profile page on Sciety with Create new list button highlighted
Profile page on Sciety with Create new list button highlighted

2. In the 'Edit list details' form follow the prompt to give your list a title and any further description that readers might find helpful

3. Choose 'Save' to view your lists

Profile page in Sciety showing multiple lists
Profile page in Sciety showing multiple lists

When you view an article page, you will now see options to add the article to more than one list.

Article page showing multiple lists

Sharing your list

Each list has a unique URL that you can copy and share with others. For example if you share this list URL on Twitter, https://sciety.org/lists/f1c2a4b3-3e3c-49f9-a318-5579217666e7, people can see the title and description of the list in their feed.

Twitter card for a list on Sciety

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