Electronic Lab Notebooks
LabArchives is an electronic laboratory notebook platform that can help UT San Antonio researchers organize and manage their research effectively and securely. Users can access LabArchives free of charge to help administer projects within their research labs and other scientific collaborations. The software offers unlimited data storage and allows researchers to:
- Create, store, and share research workflows
- Connect lab data and image files to your observations and notes
- Control access to lab notebook data and prevent unauthorized copying and exports
- Eliminate data loss
Large File Uploads Now Available!
UT San Antonio’s enterprise license of LabArchives now offers expanded file capacity, which allows researchers to upload very large files at one time (between 4GB and 16GB). This upgrade applies to all UT San Antonio accounts. As a result, users will have a more robust revision history within the electronic lab notebook of the work performed.
For users who previously had large files in their notebooks linked to OneDrive, it is recommended that those files be re-uploaded to LabArchives.
To add large files to a LabArchives page, users may select the Attachment Entry Editor from the “Attachment” tab in their notebooks. For more information, please see the instructions on this page.
LabArchives works with the following browsers: Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari, however, it does NOT support Internet Explorer
Need Help Getting Started?
With LabArchives, UT San Antonio is equipped to protect intellectual property — every entry is name, date, and time-stamped. Pages can be “frozen” with both PI and witness signatures. This documentation also helps faculty and administration respond to allegations of misconduct. LabArchives will provide our research community with multiple tools, integrations and functionalities to enhance research, including, for example, archives of lab meeting notes, and a chemical inventory tool.
FAQs
UT San Antonio researchers can find instructions for the initial setup of their electronic notebooks here: https://help.labarchives.com/hc/en-us/articles/15056084679956.
