The pathway to an institutional electronic lab notebook (ELN) solution at the University of Florida

Synopsis: The presentation was part of a virtual panel session titled Are We There Yet? Building a robust RDM ecosystem to support widespread research data sharing and funder policy compliance at Research Data Access and Presentation (RDAP) on March 29, 2023. The presentation presented some key highlights in the development of events leading to the implementation of an institutional electronic lab notebook solution at the University of Florida. This project solved the issue of the need for an institutional electronic lab notebook solution for researchers in support of data management planning and sharing.ELN also referred as electronic research notebook (ERN). Within the scope of this presentation, ELN and ERN are used interchangeably. Disclaimer: This presentation was one of three presentations included in the panel session. This version of the presentation by UF Libraries was approved and vetted by the Senior Director of UF IT Research Computing and Assistant Director of UF Academic Technology for the RDAP Panel Session. However, an updated version with less text was presented at the RDAP panel session for time constraint which is available in the RDAP 2023 public materials on Open Science Framework (OSF) via https://osf.io/2k378.The highlighted acknowledgements are select key stakeholders that funded the ELN for the 1st year. The italics are two former UF senior library administrators that contributed to ELN@UF efforts. The top three external acknowledgements are the ELN vendors invited to campus for brief presentations