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The Case for an ELN – ROAR Makes it Loud and Clear
Dr. Ben Deadman, facility manager for the Centre for Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions (ROAR) in the Department of Biochemistry at Imperial College London, England, was an early adopter of LabArchives ELN for Research which has been used at his institution since...
Security and Privacy at LabArchives: Introducing our Guiding Principles
Daniel Ayala will be posting articles about information security, privacy and compliance in our blog. Throughout his 25 year career, he has led security and privacy organisations in banking and financial services, pharmaceutical, information, higher education,...
LabArchives Joins Insightful Science
We have recently announced that LabArchives has been acquired by Insightful Science. What does that mean? Insightful Science is a portfolio of software products that include GraphPad Prism, SnapGene, Geneious Prime, Dotmatics, FCS Express, and nQuery. As you can see,...
The LabArchives Virtual User Group Event for Researchers and the Research Edition Bootcamp!
Tuesday 23 – Friday 26 November 2021
Two of our most popular user events, within two of our regions (APAC and EMEA), all in one week – The LabArchives Virtual User Group Event for Researchers and the Research Edition Bootcamp! Tuesday 23 – Friday 26 November 2021 Whether you are a current LabArchives...
New Display for Freezer Box in LabArchives Inventory!
You may have worked in a laboratory at some point where the contents of most boxes in the freezer were a mystery. That freezer box in the very back of the lab may contain samples from 1985, the year the PI obtained their PhD, and somehow the lab manager has had to...
The LabArchives Virtual User Group Event for Researchers and the Research Edition Bootcamp! October 25 – 29
Two of our most popular user events, all in one week – The LabArchives Virtual User Group Event for Researchers and the Research Edition Bootcamp! October 25 – 29 Whether you are a current LabArchives user or cautiously sitting on the sidelines reluctant to change old...
LabArchives Platform Updates
New Plain Text entry, better mobile experience Supports Markdown Added toolbar Preview formatting New Functionality in LabArchives Inventory Assign locations across organizations and campuses, organization-wide Filter by location LabArchives ELN API added two new...
Highlighting the Success of LabArchives Lab Builder
LabArchives' Lab Builder content is currently used in 340 courses by nearly 13,500 students. Since its launch at the end of 2019, the content contained in the curated collection of STEM course labs, protocols, course packs and texts has been used 1,765,000 times by...
Top 10 Strategies to Improve Scientific Reproducibility with LabArchives ELN for Research
Reproducibility is the benchmark of good science. We are taught the scientific method is to do research following the five basic steps: observation, question, hypothesis, experiment, and record. The goal of scientific research is to prove a hypothesis and record the...
The Security of Cloud Services and SaaS in 2021, Part 3
Daniel Ayala will be posting articles about information security, privacy and compliance in our blog. Throughout his 25 year career, he has led security and privacy organisations in banking and financial services, pharmaceutical, information, higher education,...
LabArchives x Enago Partnership
Scientific research has had to continue both in response to and in spite of the COVID-19 global pandemic.Almost overnight, the ability to access data from home and collaborate remotely became paramount. LabArchives has helped over 590,000 researchers around the world...
LabArchives Experiences Huge User Growth
This year LabArchives™ usage is up more than 30% YTD, approximately 50% greater than the same period from two years ago.
The Security of Cloud Services and SaaS in 2021, Part 2
Daniel Ayala will be posting articles about information security, privacy and compliance in our blog. Throughout his 25 year career, he has led security and privacy organisations in banking and financial services, pharmaceutical, information, higher education,...
The Simplicity of Scheduling
When Alana Hamilton joined the Flow Core Facility in the Institute of Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation at the University of Glasgow, she assumed the responsibility of billing for instrument use. With seven instruments and one hundred users, the online booking...
The Security of Cloud Services and SaaS in 2021
Daniel Ayala will be posting articles about information security, privacy and compliance in our blog. Throughout his 25 year career, he has led security and privacy organisations in banking and financial services, pharmaceutical, information, higher education,...
Congratulating Oxford University on the Crucial COVID-19 Vaccine Development
LabArchives would like to congratulate Oxford University, one of our valued Enterprise ELN for Research customers, on the development of a vaccine against the coronavirus responsible for the devastating COVID-19 pandemic. Oxford University has long been recognized as...
LabArchives Completes SOC2 Audit for Electronic Lab Notebook
What is one of the biggest concerns we hear from researchers and research admins and research administration? How can I be sure that the data I am collecting and working with stays confidential and remains unchanged once I have put it in place. Said differently, the...
2020 LabArchives Research Wrap-up
We appreciate the scientists, researchers, primary investigators, lab managers and other professionals who use our platform to get their work done. 2020 was full of twists and turns. On a basic level, it changed what research ‘looks’ like. While the year was...
2020 LabArchives Education Wrap-up
We appreciate the thousands of instructors, students and teaching assistants who use our platform to get their work done. 2020 was full of twists and turns. On a basic level, it changed what education ‘looks’ like. While the year was challenging, it reinforced why we...
A tool for the sciences and humanities
While they have very different roles, Courtney Kearney and Marcello Canuto both straddle the divide between hard sciences and humanities in their work at Tulane University. Courtney, the university’s Scholarly Engagement Librarian, works with faculty and students in...
Cassava and collaborating across continents
Cassava is a highly important crop in many parts of the world. Two years ago in Africa, it even surpassed the main staple, corn, in terms of volume planted. While this tuber is highly resilient, able to grow even in the harshest conditions it still suffers from many...