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Summer Skills 2023
Summer Skills Sessions 2023 AustralasiaSummer's here and it's time again for our popular Skills Sessions, whether you be bench researcher, PI or all-important right hand ‘person Friday’. These free Zoom sessions present topics for both newbies and experienced...
Summer Skills 2023
Summer Skills Sessions 2023 AustralasiaSummer's here and it's time again for our popular Skills Sessions, whether you be bench researcher, PI or all-important right hand ‘person Friday’. These free Zoom sessions present topics for both newbies and experienced...
Love Data Week 2023
Love Data Week 2023Celebrating Data, Improving Data Management, and Increasing Productivity through the LabArchives Research Notebook Love Data Week is an international celebration of data that aims to promote good data practices, while building and engaging a...
Australia Virtual User Group Event
LabArchives Australia Virtual User Group Event and Research Edition Bootcamp – 28 November to 2 December The LabArchives team is excited to announce the 2022 LabArchives Research Edition Virtual User Group and Bootcamp events for Australia. The 3rd Annual LabArchives...
EMEA Virtual User Group Event
LabArchives EMEA Virtual User Group Event and Research Edition Bootcamp - November 7-11 The 2022 EMEA LabArchives Bootcamp: The LabArchives team is excited to announce the 2022 LabArchives EMEA Research Edition Bootcamp. Whether you are a current LabArchives user or...
NIH Data Management Plan
Calls for open science have increased in the past decades, with open access publishing becoming more popular, public repositories for code, data, protocols, and software growing rapidly, and the introduction of novel practices such as open peer review and large-scale...
LabArchives Research Bootcamp
LabArchives Virtual User Group Event and Research Edition Bootcamp - October 10-21 The 2022 US LabArchives Bootcamp: The LabArchives team is excited to announce the 2022 LabArchives Research Edition Bootcamp. Whether you are a current LabArchives user or cautiously...
Implementing an institution-wide electronic lab notebook initiative to improve information and data management
Greater volumes of data are generated than ever before with expanding technologies that create large amounts of data. Increasingly, funders mandate data management and security practices and with increased scrutiny and concern over the “reproducibility crisis” in...
LabArchives Educational Boot Camp
Build, organize and manage your course in LabArchives. The fall semester is nearly upon us. We’re here to help you begin to plan fall courses. LabArchives online tools make it easy to build, organize and manage your course whether you’re teaching in-person, online or...
Q2 General Release Announcement
LabArchives is continuously working to improve our product offerings. Here are some of the exciting new platform releases. Inventory - Integration with ELN for Research With this release, LabArchives Inventory users will be able to search their Inventory and easily...
SLAS Europe 2022 Conference and Exhibition
LabArchives will be exhibiting at the SLAS Europe 2022 Conference and Exhibition in Dublin, Ireland from May 24-27. This three-day event is a opportunity for research professionals and students to discover the latest life sciences technologies and how they can be...
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,...