Internet2 Quarterly Update: Summer 2025 Semester Highlights

As the third quarter of 2025 comes to an end, we want to share updates from the NET+ LabArchives program, including highlights from our Service Advisory Board and key announcements from LabArchives.

Community News

Events

Recap: Exploring LabArchives Implementation: Unlock the full potential

In October, we hosted the webinar, Unlock the full potential of your NET+ LabArchives enterprise license. During this webinar, site admins, research leaders, and research administrators learned the ins and outs of maximizing the value of their institution’s investment in LabArchives. Watch the recording (Password: $n0Nu5DG).

Shaping the Future: We Want Your Input

Your feedback helps shape the future of LabArchives! Please consider sharing feature requests, suggestions, and comments through our Roadmap Collection Sheet. The Service Advisory Board, in collaboration with LabArchives, will review submissions, prioritize tasks, and provide updates directly on the sheet. Your input is essential in ensuring LabArchives continues to meet the evolving needs of our community.

Additional Resources:

NET+ LabArchives Wiki Page • Roadmap Collection Sheet • LabArchives Cloud Scorecard

LabArchives Updates

LabArchives – BootCamp Sessions

Join us for the 2025 Research Edition Bootcamp! Whether you’re a current user or just considering the switch, this event is designed to help you streamline and improve your research data management.https://events. zoom.us/ev/ Ak9QvvC88V2Mgvr72x6JRgVaTE9uFp BHLoL6C5cnL9PbB6L1WNhu~ AoER5M9E6E89_ OFpsKIs08QEJ7Bgwa4hH1O3lKVsKru rNsOKexIt2Dpmew

Inventory – New Item Relationships

Now you can link items through parent–child relationships to track sample origins, group related items, and document lineage across generations. Available exclusively with premium and enterprise Inventory licenses. https://help. labarchives.com/hc/en-us/ articles/36212423449364-Item- Relationships-NEW

LabArchives ELN: Recent Enhancements

LabArchives ELN now offers streamlined onboarding with new Project and Lab-Wide folder layouts, a redesigned Welcome Page with best-practice guidance, quicker access to Notebook Settings, clearer member details in Account Manager, a Pending Page Witnessing report with icon alerts, and enhanced search results across multiple notebooks. Check it out!

Latest Blog Posts

BLOGSearch for Handwritten Notes in LabArchives ELN

Important research information doesn’t always start digitally. Handwritten notes, annotated figures, diagrams, and scanned documents can contain valuable details that are difficult to find once they’re stored as images. With the new Text & Handwriting Extraction feature for LabArchives ELN, Enterprise customers can extract text from uploaded images and PDFs, making that information searchable alongside the original file.

BLOGYou Can't Vibecode Compliance

Across research and technical teams, one instinct keeps winning: move fast and stay flexible,. Call it vibecoding. It feels efficient, modern, and cheaper, because there are no new systems to stand up and no hours lost to recordkeeping. But that feeling is an illusion. You cannot vibe your way to compliance, and the moment your work has to be shared, reproduced, or audited, the shortcut reveals itself for what it always was: a deferred expense with higher interest.

BLOGAliquot Management in LabArchives Inventory

Tracking individual aliquots across experiments, team members, and storage locations can quickly become difficult. New Aliquot Management in LabArchives Inventory makes it easier to create aliquots in bulk, monitor each one individually, and connect samples directly to experimental data, all while maintaining complete traceability.

BLOGIs Your Institution Data-Rich and Insight-Poor?

Every week, your shared research resources run nonstop. Instruments hum, grants fund the work, faculty publish. The engine is running. But could you produce, today, a single structured report showing which resources drove which grants and papers over the past three years? In most institutions, not without weeks of manual work, and likely with gaps. That is not a storage problem. It is an attribution problem, and it is quietly becoming a funding risk.

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