Lab Archives | Research IT Core Services

Lab Archives

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LabArchives is an electronic lab notebook (ELN) software hosted on the cloud and is accessible from any device with an internet connection. LabArchives allows researchers to replace their paper notebooks, making notebook data easily searchable. LabArchives also facilitates sharing among collaborators and promotes common document and protocol storage in the lab. Customizable forms called ‘widgets’ allow researchers to standardize data entry for common experiments and provide tools for freezer box storage and chemical inventory lists. You can learn more about Lab Archives at this link: http://www.labarchives.com/

We have partnered with LabArchives to offer Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation (CCRF) members access to the LabArchives ELN software.

Visit this site https://mynotebook.labarchives.com/login to sign up for a new LabArchives account. If you are working at a CCHMC campus, you will be redirected to the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center login page. If you are working off campus, select the option to ‘create a new account’ and then ‘sign up through your institution’. Be sure to sign up using your CCHMC email address so that you are included in our enterprise license and you can take advantage of unlimited data storage!
Reference these help documents: Setting up a new account, Linking your existing account to CCHMC, and Accessing the mobile app to get started.

Sign up to attend a LabArchives training session using the training registration link found on the Lab Archives Centerlink page.

http://centerlink.cchmc.org/research/research---tabs/lab-archives

Here is some information to help you get started using your Lab Archives account:

1) Click here to learn more about Lab Archives Professional Edition software.

2) Start using Lab Archives quickly with this easy start-up guide.

3) Click here to find suggestions on how to setup your lab members and send invitations to join Lab Archives.

4) View a flow chart of user-roles within a Lab Archives notebook to help you get organized!

For Help, please contact: help-eln@bmi.cchmc.org

Need Help?

For technical assistance with other research software, email software@bmi.cchmc.org. For basic desktop support or assistance with clinical information systems, call the Cincinnati Children's Service Desk, 513-636-4100, or visit the Information Services CenterLink site. UC employees should call the UCit Help Desk, 513-556-HELP.

A note about UCit software

UC researchers are served with desktop software by UCIT. In many cases this software is licensed specifically to UC employees only (i.e., people who receive paychecks from UC) or must be run on UC-owned or controlled equipment, making it inaccessible to Cincinnati Children's personnel. Please make sure you read the license agreement carefully before you use UC software.

Faculty and students of UC are eligible to purchase software from UC. However, when purchasing from UC, the license agreement states that the software can be installed only on your personally owned or UC-owned computer and not on machines owned by other institutions. Since Children’s Hospital is a separate entity from UC, installing software purchased from UC on CCHMC owned computers is a violation of that license agreement. There is a difference in the price of software purchased from Biomedical Informatics at Children’s Hospital versus from the UC Bookstore. This difference is because UC qualifies for the educational discount whereas Children’s Hospital does not. Although Cincinnati Children’s Hospital is affiliated with UC, we are not a degree granting institution. We are a hospital, therefore we only qualify for the healthcare/non-profit discount.