[Sigsti-l] Electronic Laboratory Notebooks

[Janet M. Arth]

Honest, this isn't a sales pitch, but I saw this at the Outsell, Inc 
website ( http://www.outsellinc.com/ ) and thought it might be of interest:


Trend Alert: Electronic Laboratory Notebooks - A Promise of Scientific 
Information Integration
Scientists use laboratory notebooks to record experimental work. Regulatory 
and scientific standards require that they be maintained for purposes of 
intellectual property protection, but they also have value as a knowledge 
base of previously performed work. In recent years, many organizations in 
research-intensive fields have begun look closely at Electronic Laboratory 
Notebooks (ELNs) as a new way to record, store, and manipulate experimental 
data. For Content Deployment Professionals in research-intensive 
industries, the Briefing provides an analysis of how far ELNs have 
advanced, and a comparative look at four players in the market. For vendors 
of ELN systems, the Briefing provides a "big-picture" overview of how ELNs 
fit in with parts of the
information environment.

fyi, Janet