Daureen Nesdill
Research Data Management Librarian
University of Utah
Harish Maringanti
Associate Dean for IT & Digital Library Services
University of Utah
Xuemao Wang
Vice Provost for Digital Scholarship
University of Cincinnati
Two institutions will share their experiences with electronic lab notebooks (ELN) as a follow-on to the fall 2019 CNI Executive Roundtable on that topic.
In 2017, the University of Utah initiated and implemented a campus-wide ELN solution. Partnering with the Office of the Vice President for Research and the University’s central IT, the libraries took the leadership role in investigating ELNs as a component of its data management services. After three years of introducing the product to campus research groups, some unexpected use cases emerged and collaborations initiated. This project briefing will include an outline of the project rollout in the context of data management services offered by the Library, and a discussion of opportunities and challenges that arose with the implementation of ELNs.
From November 2016 to June 2018, the University of Cincinnati (UC) Libraries partnering with UC’s Academic Medical Center, Office of Provost, and Office of Vice President for Research introduced a vendor based ELN pilot solution LabArchives. The LabArchives is a cloud-based ELN application that is compliant with several federal mandates and can be integrated with numerous software tools. This project briefing will describe the pilot program and discuss some of its findings, and the institution’s learning experience.