RSpace Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN)

Overview

RSpace (ResearchSpace) is an open-source electronic lab notebook (ELN) supported by Harvard IT that can help researchers organize, store, and share protocols, analysis and experimental notes in a centralized and secure platform. RSpace has been developed in close consultation with researchers and research data professionals at leading global research institutions to meet expanding researcher needs.

Benefits

Tailored for academic environments and the research workflow, ELNs help manage and track research data throughout the data lifecycle. They facilitate good data management practices, support data review and oversight, enable group collaboration, and manage inventories of samples and other equipment.

Features

Researchers:

• Capture and organize research data to maintain a record of work
• Collaborate with lab groups and lab members
• Simplify data inventory and sample management
• Integrate with popular research tools
  • Harvard Dataverse, protocols.io, OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox, S3 Cloud, DMPTool, GitHub, Jupyter Notebook, Slack and more!
• Link to research data stored in institutional storage
• Store research data up to Harvard Security Level 3
• Login with HarvardKey authentication

Principal Investigators (PIs):

• Delegate administration of group access to a manager
• Open or restricted data sharing capabilities available
• Real time visibility of researcher communication
• Data ownership stays with the PI and the university
• Export data in HTML, XML, DOC and PDF formats
• Data backups retained by RSpace to prevent data loss

Additional information available on the RSpace website. An overview of the RSpace ELN for prospective users is also provided by Harvard IT (HarvardKey login required).

Eligibility

• Available to Principal Investigators (PIs) with a Harvard appointment. Members of the labs can be added as users.
• To request RSpace for your Lab, please complete the Harvard RSpace ELN Onboarding Request Form.

Contact

Please direct additional questions to Sarah Marchese, Research Data Manager with FAS Research Computing.

sarah_marchese@fas.harvard.edu