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Biology Information Literacy Part I: Resources & the Library: Laboratory Notebook Management

Taking Notes in the Lab or Field

Notebooks Shed Light on an Antibiotic’s Contested Discovery
An article on the potential importance of lab notebooks.

Guidelines for Keeping Lab Notebooks

Guidelines for Scientific Record Keeping in the Intramural Research Program at the NIH
NIH 2008 guidelines. (.pdf)
National Cancer Institute Guide for Keeping Laboratory Records
NIH brochure that provides best practices for keeping lab records and notebooks. (.pdf)
Keeping a Lab Notebook: Basic Principles and Best Practices
Slides accompanying an NIH workshop webinar, by Philip Ryan. (.pdf)
Keeping a Lab Notebook (slides 6/24/10)
Slides from workshop that describes best practices in keeping a lab notebook, from speaker Garland Crawford. (.pdf)

See Darwin's Notebooks!

Darwin's Notebooks