Keeping your work safe and secure
With data-breaches almost continually in the news, it seems a good time to describe some simple steps you can take to help keep your data as safe as possible. While we at RSpace take a great deal of time and effort…
RSpace 1.54 preview
We've just released RSpace version 1.54 and will be updating all our customer servers over the next few days. There are several significant improvements to existing functionality, and bug fixes so we'd definitely recommend all self-managed customers to upgrade. Most of…
RSpace 1.53 preview
We've just released RSpace version 1.53 and will be updating all our servers over the next few days. There are several significant improvements from 1.52 so we'd definitely recommend all self-managed customers to upgrade. Firstly, we've improved our ability to…
RSpace 1.52 preview
We've just released RSpace version 1.52 and will be updating all our servers over the next few days. The focus on this release is on usability, addressing frequently asked for features, and fixing some inconsistencies in existing behaviour. Many people…
Seamless integration of the RSpace e-notebook and protocols.io
Protocols.io and Research Space are pleased to announce an integration of the RSpace electronic lab notebook with protocols.io. This integration, described in the following brief video, enables researchers to link to and import protocols directly from protocols.io into RSpace.…
Electronic notebooks as a data curation tool for data librarians
This is the third and final installment of some reflections on using electronic notebooks (ELNs) as a tool for data curation. The first post looked at ELNs as a low cost alternative to the new Springer Nature research data support…
Cambridge,TU Delft and Harvard electronic lab notebook evaluation resources
In the past six months both Cambridge and Harvard have compiled and published substantial overviews of electronic lab notebooks. As described below the formats are somewhat different, but each of these overviews is useful in its own way, and together…
Looking ahead to RSpace 1.50
We're putting the final touches to RSpace 1.50, which will be out later this week. There's a lot of improvements and new features to introduce, most of them based on suggestions and requests from you, our users. The most obvious…
Electronic notebooks as data curation tools 2: Optimizing the ELN-to-repository workflow
This is the second of three posts on electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) as data curation tools. In the first post I looked at how ELNs can serve as low cost and more effective alternatives to Springer Nature's new research data…
Alternative to Springer Nature Research Data Service: Electronic notebooks as a data curation tool
The Research Data Support Service and early reactions Springer Nature's recent announcement of its new research data support offering has produced both confusion and some consternation in the research data management and data curation communities. The research data support service…