LabArchives Tips (6): Monitor Lab Activity Within LabArchives

LabArchives provides a series of six articles to get you started with their lab notebook tool.  This is the sixth and final in the series.  All information is taken directly from the tutorials they send by email to new users.

Activity Feed

Need to review notebook activity? Who made that change, or added that file? All activities are tracked within your activity feed. It’s your notebook audit trail. Learn more

Comments

Keep the page or entry communication and collaboration going using the commenting feature.
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Notification Alerts

Need to receive communication alerts in your emails inbox. Users can be notified via email when a comment is made on an entry they have created, edited, or on which they have commented.
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LabArchives Tips (5): Collaboration and Sharing Within Lab Archives

LabArchives provides a series of five articles to get you started with their lab notebook tool.  This is the fifth in the series.  All information is taken directly from the tutorials they send by email to new users.

Sharing

If you choose, all content within your notebook is sharable, from a signal entry, page, folder to your entire notebook all while managing their access rights. Learn more about your sharing options.

Sharing a permanent link

Completed your research and looking to share with a permanent link? Share using LabArchives integrated digital object identifier (DOI) feature.
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Using Groups

Have a number of users within your lab? Learn how to organize users into groups with different access rights. Learn more

LabArchives Tips (4): Database Tools and Freezer Boxes

LabArchives provides a series of five articles to get you started with their lab notebook tool.  This is the fourth in the series.  All information is taken directly from the tutorials they send by email to new users.

Widgets – Powerful Tools

Extend the tools and features available to you within your ELN using LabArchives Widgets. They are customizable, interactive HTML forms or applications displayed directly within your page/entry. Learn more

Need even more power within your notebook, learn how to create your own custom widgets.

Databases and Freezer Boxes

Create your own database or freezer box widgets with the ability to store multiple entries all using a single form. With the freezer box displaying in a grid style rather that the database table style. Learn more about database or freezer box widgets.

 

LabArchives Tips (3): Data Management Planning

LabArchives provides a series of five articles to get you started with their lab notebook tool.  This is the third in the series.  All information is taken directly from the tutorials they send by email to new users.

Your Notebook Data – Secured!

When it comes to your research data, it is secured with bank level security. Learn more about your data security and availability.

Revisions

Don’t ever lose any of your research data as EVERY version is available to view and restore through the revision history. (No data can ever be erased or deleted and all data changes are tracked).
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Reproducability

Internal and external notebook linking of data and experiment protocols can lead to greater reproducibility of laboratory experiments. Learn more

Create an Offline Version

Need a copy of your notebook for posterity? Learn how to create
offline
or PDF versions of your notebook.

LabArchives Tips (2): Uploading and Managing Data

LabArchives provides a series of five articles to get you started with their lab notebook tool.  This is the second in the series.  All information is taken directly from the tutorials they send by email to new users.

Sketching

Need to doodle a drawing of your experiment set-up or the results, try LabArchives Sketching tool.
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Annotator

Enhance and edit your lab notebook images to highlight or present particular findings that are significant.
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Using the LA Docs Editor

Create and edit MS-Office compatible documents from within your Notebook. This includes: MS-Office Word, MS-Office Excel and MS-Office PowerPoint.

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MS Office Plug-In Software

Users can use this FREE plug-in softare feature to open files from a LabArchives Notebook in their local Microsoft Office and once done editing a file, save the file back to their notebook without even being logged into the web browser.

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Using your Inbox

Results direct in your notebook inbox. Feature enables rules by which files of a specific type(s) are moved automatically into a designated Folder upon arrival in your inbox. Within that Folder, they are automatically organized into a Subfolder by the Year, and then into individual Pages by date within that Year.

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Also available is a FREE desktop utility, FolderMonitor, for Windows and Mac, that automatically transfers files from your PC into LabArchives notebook.

LabArchives Tips (1): Setting Up Your Notebook

LabArchives provides a series of five articles to get you started with their lab notebook tool.  This is the first in the series.  All information is taken directly from the tutorials they send by email to new users.

It’s All About The Set-up

When it comes to transitioning to LabArchives from paper notebooks or even other digital tools, we provide you with several options. Is your lab working on one or more projects? Is it a small lab, or do you have a large number of members? Do you have a regular change in lab members (e.g. graduate students)? Learn more about your set-up options.

We Like Hierarchies

LabArchives uses a standard file system of Folders to organize your laboratory information. Each folder may contain any number of “sub-folders.” There is no limit to the number or levels of sub-folders. Learn more…

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Announcements vs. Email in Carmen

You probably know that you can communicate with your students in Carmen either by sending them an email using the CarmenCanvas “Inbox” or by posting an announcement.  But which one is better?  Best practices in online communication with students say that general class information should be shared using the Announcements tool where all have access to it at any time, and the instructor should make clear from the beginning of the term that the onus is on the student to check the course announcements regularly (perhaps daily).  Emails can get caught in a spam filter, be misdirected, or simply ignored. Of course, information of a more private nature which is intended for an individual student should be sent by email to that student, and ODEE’s recommendation is that we use the student’s lastname.#@osu.edu email address. They also recommend not sending FERPA data (such as grade information) via email but to instead keep it in Carmen and tell students where they can look for grade data and feedback.