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Electronic Lab Notebooks

The Big Picture of Data Management in an Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN)

Posted on March 3, 2016

by Jan Cheetham The ELN is designed to be a single place to hold the different types of digital data you produce in your research. Now that UW-Madison researchers have unlimited storage on the LabArchives …

Posted in ToolsTagged Electronic Lab Notebooks

Tool: Electronic Lab Notebook

Posted on November 5, 2015

by Cameron Cook UW-Madison nows offers an electronic lab notebook (ELN) service called LabArchives. What is an electronic lab notebook? An electronic lab notebook is software designed to replace traditional paper lab notebooks and allows …

Posted in ToolsTagged Electronic Lab Notebooks

Tools: Archiving Electronic Lab Notebooks

Posted on April 3, 2014

Electronic Lab Notebooks are becoming important data management tools for researchers in a number of fields. Since ELNs are replacing paper lab notebooks in many labs, can we anticipate a future in which boxes and …

Posted in Data Storage, ToolsTagged archiving, Electronic Lab Notebooks, ELNs

Tools: Electronic Lab Notebooks

Posted on April 29, 2013

What are they? Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) are software counterparts to paper lab notebooks. Although the name suggests a physical notebook device, ELNs are actually just software that runs on a computer, although some ELNs …

Posted in ToolsTagged Cloud Storage, Electronic Lab Notebooks

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