Scientific honesty and publicly shared lab notebooks

Electronic lab notebooks: can they replace paper?

Despite the increasingly digital nature of society there are some areas of research that remain firmly rooted in the past; in this case the laboratory notebook, the last remaining paper component of an experiment. Countless electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) have been created in an attempt to digitise record keeping processes in the lab, but none of them have become a 'key player' in the EL...

Publicly shared intelligence

Supporting cooperative working using shared notebooks

This paper discusses the use of a shared cooperative notebook by a group of software engineers and support staff distributed over two sites The designof the notebook is described and results of the pilot trial reported It was found that the system was an effective means of shanng information for the non-technical staff but required much greater integration with other information systems and the...

Darwin on man. A psychological study of scientific creativity, together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks

HOWARD E. GRUBER, Darwin on man. A psychological study ofscientific creativity, together with Darwin's early and unpublished notebooks, transcribed and annotated by Paul H. Barrett, London, Wildwood House, 1974, 8vo,. pp. xxv, 495, illus., £5.00. In the first part (pp. 1-257), Professor Gruber, a developmental psychologist and follower of Piaget who provides a forward, analyses the way in which...

Rethinking Laboratory Notebooks

Abstract We take digitalization of laboratory work practice as a challenging design domain to explore. There are obvious drawbacks with the use of paper instead of ICT in the collaborative writing that takes place in laboratory notebooks; yet paper persist in being the most common solution. The ultimate aim with our study is to produce design relevant knowledge that can envisage an ICT solution...