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Nature 436, 20-21 (7 July 2005) | doi:10.1038/436020a; Published online 6 July 2005
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Electronic notebooks: A new leaf
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- Declan Butler is a senior reporter at Nature.
Abstract
Record-keeping in the lab has stayed unchanged for hundreds of years, but today's experiments are putting huge pressure on the old ways. Declan Butler weighs up the pros and cons of electronic alternatives to that dog-eared notebook.
Pity the poor lab notebook. Almost everyone is publishing, sharing and searching information in electronic form, from biological and literature databases to blogs of their latest ideas.
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