Is there a way to share a DRAFT journal article before publishing/posting it? For instance is there a URL for the DRAFT that would be visible if I included it in a DM to another iNatter? This would give a journal author a chance to get feedback from other members of the community before finally pu…

[image] gcwarbler: For instance is there a URL for the DRAFT that would be visible if I included it in a DM to another iNatter? No, sorry, there isn’t a URL for a draft that others can see.

You could load a preview and share screenshots of it. Would that work?

You could save it to your Notes app, then share it?

If u collaborate w them often you could invite them to co-admin an iNat project with you and initially write the posts there (where they can preview them), even if u ultimately publish in a personal iNat journal. Screen grabs work well too but without working links.

If you want it to stay private until you have gotten feedback on it, you can use Google Drive or Google Docs , and share the document with people via email or a sharing link. Google Docs is a very popular tool for collaboration that lets people write comments throughout the document or suggest change…

I was unclear in my earlier question: Folks are responding to a slightly different scenario than what I’m considering. I’m not concerned about a draft of an article for a science or peer-reviewed journal. There are many ways to share such a draft or pre-publication version. My question is about a…

Oh, well. That’s what I feared. The journal article is now live: https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/gcwarbler/119716-yellow-neotropical-lichen-moths

Chuck, I guess you could submit a feature request for collaborative editing, so that multiple users could work on one journal post? Not sure how much demand there would be for that, though.

[image] AdamWargon: I guess you could submit a feature request for collaborative editing, so that multiple users could work on one journal post? Not sure how much demand there would be for that, though. Given that many people have expressed their approval of the idea of a wiki-style page for…

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iosialectus November 7, 2025, 9:03pm 6

Depending on the exact subject matter, one can also just post to arxiv.org (i.e. ‘the’ arxiv) under q-bio

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