Summary from Vendor: eLabFTW is a free and open source electronic lab notebook designed by researchers, for researchers, with usability in mind. With eLabFTW you get a secure, modern and compliant system to track your experiments efficiently but also manage your lab with a powerful and flexible database.
Electronic Lab Notebook Software Free
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ELabFTW is a free and open-source software. It helps researchers log and track experiments through a simple and intuitive interface. It is designed by researchers for researchers with usability in mind. ELabFTW is available in 13 languages thanks to the involvement of the community of users. I have been using Circus Ponies' Notebook (Mac) for the past five years or so to keep digital notes backed up to Dropbox. This way my students and I can access lab notebooks on any computer that.
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Free Lab Notebook Software
Search functions can search across file formats and beyond typos
- Able to search for documents within the platform
- Low ability to search beyond file formats
- Low ability to search beyond typographical errors
- Transparency of file structure
Ability to manipulate files and images
- Yes
Support for multiple open windows
- Yes
Ability to link out
- Yes
Support for Researcher Documentation
Documentation and metadata creationHyperlink Support
- Yes
Metadata Creation Prompts
- No
Rights Management (Licensing)
- No
Protocol Integration
- Yes
Adaptability to Lab Workflows
Platform compatibilityAccounts/Permissions Levels
- Yes
Internal Data Sharing
- Yes
Adaptable to a Variety of Workflows
- Yes
Compatibility with authoring tools
- No
Windows Compatible
- Yes
Macintosh Compatible
- Yes
Linux Compatible
- Yes
Android Compatible
- Yes
iOS Compatible
- Yes
Cloud Storage
- Yes
Local Storage
- Yes
Hybrid (cloud/local) Storage
- No
Versioning
- Yes
File Redundancy
- Yes
Creates stable URLs or persistent identifiers for entries
- Yes
Can unregistered users access the data found at persistent links?
- Yes
Storage Capacity - Users
- Unlimited
Storage Capacity - Max File Size
- Configurable - 1 MB or 1 TB
Cloud
- Yes
Local
- Yes
Hybrid (combination of cloud and local)
- No
Training
- No
Documentation
- FAQs, Video tutorials, Instructions, Troubleshooting information, 'Quick-Start' Instructions
Data Migration from Other Systems (incoming migration)
- Excel files or zip archives from another eLabFTW instance
Compatibility with data repositories
- Yes
Exit Strategies (outgoing migration)
- Yes
Recovery Options
- Yes
Single Sign-on (Institutional ID)
- Yes
Number of Installations per institution
- Unlimited
Multiple client use
- Yes
Number of registered Harvard/HMS users
- No information available
Other higher-education users
- Yes
- Level 2: Information the University has chosen to keep confidential but the disclosure of which would not cause material harm
Backdoor accessibility
- No
Open Science/Open Data Efforts
- It is open source
Academically Oriented
- Yes
Cost (per seat)
- Free
Dictation/voice input
- No
Data Entry
- Yes
Platform Integrations
- Yes