Electronic Lab Notebooks

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Notebooks play an important role in almost all laboratories and are used to record information that is not easily captured in electronic form. Some of the data entered relates to how experiments were conducted and refers to information held within LIMS. Linking from the notebook references to the data in LIMS, and vice versa, is an important requirement in certain environments. The Laboratory Notebooks table in LIMS is used to define the physical laboratory notebooks for users in the lab. Users can select the notebook they are currently using and a reference to this notebook can be made for data recorded in LIMS. An individual user owns each notebook; however, if a notebook is shared, it is available to all users who have security access to the notebook. When a notebook is full, it can be closed, and users can no longer reference this notebook. The Notebook References dialog is accessed by the User to define which notebook they are currently using. In addition, the page of the notebook and comments may also be recorded. Once the user sets their notebook reference, this notebook reference is tagged to data recorded in LIMS. In addition, if a user has a notebook reference defined, the notebook reference dialog will be automatically displayed when the user logs into LIMS. This is to ensure that the user is aware that notebook references are being recorded and that the notebook reference is valid for the upcoming data entry.