The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai now provides an Electronic Lab Notebook service for all researchers through an enterprise license agreement with LabArchives. The service is a secure, cloud-based software designed to replace paper notebooks and to help improve designing and documenting experiments.
“Mount Sinai is moving into the digital age of research record-keeping, and we really need folks to embrace it, to try it out,” says Reginald Miller, DVM, Dean, Research Operations and Infrastructure. “It’s a great way to collaborate with your colleagues, both internally and externally. It’s a resource that has unlimited user capability, and it’s free.”
At a time when science is being encouraged to be more reproducible and rigorous, this type of electronic note keeping is important in being able to show the data to those who request it and to be able to transmit and disseminate the data, according to Talia Swartz, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases.
“This has a huge advantage in providing a platform to make that readily available, and that is of interest to anyone who is trying to disseminate their data and collect it for the purpose of rigorous science,” says Dr. Swartz.