Summary from Vendor: SciNote is a top-rated platform for researchers in academia or industry, who need electronic lab notebook, inventory management and project management functionalities.
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Features & Specifications
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Interactivity
Interface functionalitySearch functions can search across file formats and beyond typos
- Able to search for documents within the platform
- Able to search beyond file formats
- Able to search beyond typographical errors
- Transparency of file structure
Ability to manipulate files and images
- Can manipulate text documents and spreadsheets, and some elements of images.
Support for multiple open windows
- Yes
Ability to link out
- Yes
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Support for Researcher Documentation
Documentation and metadata creationHyperlink Support
- Yes
Metadata Creation Prompts
- Yes
Rights Management (Licensing)
- Yes
Protocol Integration
- SciNote allows its users to create and store protocols within the protocol repository, and is integrated with Protocols.io platform
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Adaptability to Lab Workflows
Platform compatibilityAccounts/Permissions Levels
- Yes
Internal Data Sharing
- Yes
Adaptable to a Variety of Workflows
- SciNote supports all types of lab workflows. Flexible workflows functionality allows its users to create entire processes and connect each step of the way with arrows in all possible directions.
Compatibility with authoring tools
- Yes
Windows Compatible
- Yes
Macintosh Compatible
- Yes
Linux Compatible
- Yes
Android Compatible
- Yes
iOS Compatible
- Yes
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Storage
Available data storage optionsCloud Storage
- Yes
Local Storage
- Yes
Hybrid (cloud/local) Storage
- Yes
Versioning
- Supports version tracking, backup and storage.
File Redundancy
- Through versioning and Amazon cross-region file replication.
Creates stable URLs or persistent identifiers for entries
- Yes
Can unregistered users access the data found at persistent links?
- No
Storage Capacity - Users
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Free users: up to 10 GB per team, each additional 100 GB costs $9/month per team;
Premium: start at 1 TB per team and can scale up based upon requirements.
Storage Capacity - Max File Size
- 300 MB per user with a potential for expansion on SciNote's end, though sciNote recommends local storage for any larger files (and linking the location to relevant projects within SciNote).
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Hosting
Software accessCloud
- Yes
Local
- Yes
Hybrid (combination of cloud and local)
- Yes
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Support
Training and maintenance offeredTraining
- User oriented training, administrator oriented training, online trainings only.
Documentation
- FAQs, video tutorials, instructions, troubleshooting information, "quick-start" instructions, other.
Data Migration from Other Systems (incoming migration)
- Import any csv, txt, xlsx into database. Integration with Office Online is available. + API to migrate data from other systems
Compatability with data repositories
- Yes
Exit Strategies (outgoing migration)
- Yes; can create reports with custom content and save to any reposity as a PDF. Export all data in a readable format is availableIntegration with Office Online is available.
Recovery Options
- Database backups, Amazon cross-region replication for files.
Single Sign-on (Institutional ID)
- Yes
Number of Installations per institution
- No limit
Multiple client use
- Yes
Number of registered Harvard/HMS users
- There are over 100 email addresses from Harvard domains registered in SciNote, 15 are from hms.harvard.edu.
Other higher-education users
- 500+ higher-education institutions use SciNote (across teams and labs). Most active users are at universities in the US and Western Europe.
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Security
Compliance with Harvard security -
Other
Additional featuresOpen Science/Open Data Efforts
- sciNote is open source.
Academically Oriented
- Yes, there is a dedicated academic version: SciNote Premium Academia.
Cost (per seat)
- No information provided
Dictation/voice input
- Yes
Data Entry
- You can upload any type of document to sciNote, however, you cannot embed PDF or Word documents into a final report.
Platform Integrations
- Microsoft Office Online, Protocols.io
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Tiers of Service
Features and costs associatedFree Account
- Cost: $0
- Public cloud
- 10 GB of storage
- 6 inventories
- 1 team
- 5 manuscript drafts
- User management
- Email support
- Cloud backup
Premium Academia
- Cost: Contact Support Team
- Private cloud or local installation
- 1 TB+ of storage
- 15 inventories
- Unlimited teams
- Unlimited manuscript drafts
- Advanced user management
- Premium support & onboarding
- Cloud/local backup
- API access and OAuth
Premium Industry
- Cost: Contact Support Team
- Private cloud or local installation
- 1 TB+ of storage
- 15 inventories
- Unlimited teams
- Unlimited manuscript drafts
- Advanced user management
- Premium support & onboarding
- Cloud/local backup
- API access and OAuth
- 21 CFR Part 11 - electronic signatures & audit trails