Paper laboratory notebooks may go the way of the typewriter with the invention of the DOE Electronic Notebook. It provides scientists and inventors with a system to input and retrieve information much like a paper notebook but has many additional advantages. Researchers will be able to share a common project notebook with collaborators around the world. ORNL records personnel are working with electronic notebook developers to ensure that the electronic version meets all the regulatory requirements for scientific records. Another advantage of the notebook is that after typing their password, users can read and write to the notebook using their Web browser. No special software needs to be installed on a user's computer. Hundreds of groups at DOE labs, universities, industries and medical centers are already using the new notebook, developed by researchers in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division.
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