Promoting Open Science & Open Education through Accessible and Electronic Lab Notebooks

This material introduces Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) - digital tools for recording research information. Why? Documentation of lab procedures and results is critical for reproducible and open science. While a variety of electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) are commercially available, the cost may be prohibitive for institutions and an additional financial burden for students. Free options have limitations or are cumbersome to implement in a classroom. Importantly, this is an opportunity to integrate documentation training into an open science curriculum and leverage existing knowledge available on Pressbooks. This resource uses the expertise from computer science graduate students and a microbiology graduate student to develop user friendly (for non-computer scientists and new adopters) instructions for GitHub ELN templateand training materials for undergraduate lab-based courses. Introductory video: [Video (/community/groups/octopus/File: /uploads/movies/CarlosELNsOCTOPUSVideo-1. webm) ] Download the video (200MB) View the publication files and links here. Please visit the OCTOPUS Group page for additional information and other curriculum resources. OCTOPUS was generously supported by the Open Research Community Accelerator (ORCA) with additional support from the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium.