SciNote

Search 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

Hyperlink 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

 

Accounts/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

 

Cloud 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

• 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).

 

Cloud

• Yes

 

Local

• Yes

 

Hybrid (combination of cloud and local)    

• Yes

 

Training

• 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.

 

Harvard Security Levels

• Up to and including Level 2

 

Backdoor accessibility

• Yes

 

Open 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

 

Free 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