Handbook of Electronic Laboratory Notebooks: Applications and Case Studies
The CENSA eNotebook
Compliance
Assessment Toolkit and The CENSA eNotebook
Certification Service for electronic notebook software
and related content and records systems for electronic recordkeeping
and archiving system and programs to Its Supplier and End User Members.
"The Legal Acceptability Guide
For Electronic Records" (LAGER) - a comprehensive legal guide
to designing, operating, auditing, and defending (or attacking) electronic
evidence created under any organization's electronic records program.
A comprehensive publication that will help you get your eRecords house
in order !!
"Moving
to Electronic Records and Notebooks, While Meeting Legal, Regulatory
and Quality Standards" - a research report by Dr. Rich Lysakowski
"The R&D Team Computing Study"
- An comprehensive industry report and blueprint.
"Cost/Benefit Analysis of Electronic
Recordkeeping Systems and Electronic Laboratory Notebooks"
- a workshop and software toolkit focused on your company's needs
"Automating 21st Century Science" -
a book authored and edited by Rich Lysakowski and
Steve Schmidt, with chapters contributed by 22 other industry experts.
"Collaborative Electronic Notebooks
and Knowledge Management Systems for R&D Enterprises"
- a training course
"Web-Based Collaborative Computing
for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Managers: How to Connect, Collect
and Collaborate Using Today's Hottest Technologies" - a training
course
"The Legal Acceptability Guide for Electronic
Records" (LAGER)
The LAGER is the most comprehensive (260 page) legal guide available
for helping professionals resolve legal issues on electronic records.
It provides a briefing on the challenges of electronic
records, detailed reference models for electronic records programs,
and the full lifecycle of electronic records over any retention period.
It provides the litigation process roadmap and details for how to properly
design and validate electronic records programs, in order to facilitate
admissibility and maximum assignment of weight to electronic evidence.
It applies to litigation of civil, criminal, intellectual property,
regulatory compliance, and administrative cases. It was designed and
written by and for practicing attorneys, legal support staff, records managers,
archivists, information technologists, auditors, quality assurance,
and others who must design, support and defend (or attack) an electronic
records emanating from their electronic records programs. The LAGER
had dozens of contributors and reviewers from many government agencies
and industry experts on electronic records in many disciplines.
The LAGER is the first of The Quality Electronic Records Practices (QERPs) Standards available.
It was developed and funded exclusively by CENSA. It can be purchased by calling 781-395-3004..
Available Now. Price $199 for paper or CD copy
or $250 for both.
"Moving to Electronic Records and Notebooks,
While Meeting Legal, Regulatory and Quality Standards" a research
report by Dr. Rich Lysakowski.
A Research Report resulting from over 12 months of research, interviews
and feedback from regulatory agencies' representatives, patent lawyers,
pharmaceutical and chemical company records and notebook managers.
A very practical report that details and reviews SOPs for recordbook
usage and management, and translates those into rigorous software
design requirements. This report is being used now by major corporations
to write specifications and evaluate commercial groupware, electronic
notebooks, and data/document management systems for R&D. The report
is written from a functional, business and legal perspective, i.e.,
it does not discuss specific technologies or vendors. No better focused
report or deal is available covering this much material so succinctly.
Available Now. Price $950.00 to end users and IT staff.
"The R&D Team Computing Study" - a Comprehensive Industry
Report and Blueprint
The R&D Team Computing Study is a landmark study that led
to the formation of the Collaborative Electronic Notebook Systems
Association. It resulted from a comprehensive, multi-year, multi-client
study commissioned by nine Fortune 200 companies. It is designed
to save corporations many months to years of work on defining requirements,
and evaluating and selecting vendors and their technologies.
It is being used now by all CENSA End User Members to define their
collective and unique requirements. It is used constantly by
CENSA End User Members and Staff as a key resource for requirements
analysis, design, implementation, and system validation. It
would take more than 24 months of hard labor to do a similar study
in-house.
The Study Report defines a new class of automation system and market
called "R&D Team Computing Systems." It contains
the Master List of System and Vendor Requirements for integrated project
workflow, data, document, and records handling systems for R&D
organizations. The report profiles, compares, and summarizes
the top five candidate vendors and their technologies in these areas.
Provides the vision needed for your organization to "pull it
all together" for integrated R&D Team Computing Systems.
This report gives you a set of tools and methodologies for evaluating,
selecting, and rolling out systems. It specifies technical and vendor
support requirements in enough detail to write requirements documents,
functional specifications, Requests For Proposals, implementation
plans, and other types of system and business documentation. This
product is also available with consulting that provides business needs
assessments of new products and assessments of leading vendors.
Click
Here for More Details - a study desription in PDF format...
CENSA End User Members!! The R&D Team Computing
Study is now included in your membership. To get it, go to the
"End User Members Deliverables Library."
Available to Non-Members Too! Call for Pricing.
"Automating 21st Century Science
- The Legal, Regulatory, Technical, and Social Aspects of Electronic
Notebooks and Collaborative Computing Systems"
A book edited and authored by Rich Lysakowski, Zahava
Leibowitz, and Steve Schmidt, with chapter contributions from 22 other
industry experts.
This is the first volume in the series, "Automating 21st Century
Science". The series covers significant research, development,
product innovation, case studies, and practices in new areas of automation
that will significantly impact science, engineering, and society now
and long into the 22nd century.
This 700+ page book collects original writings from 27 leading innovators
in government, industry, and academia. It covers the key legal,
regulatory, technical, social, operational and business issues that
must be addressed when implementing electronic recordkeeping, electronic
notebooks and collaborative computing systems in R&D. The
authors have been doing legal and technical innovation in electronic
records and collaborative computing for the past 15 years. All
chapters have been coordinated to cover different aspects of the subject,
as indicated in the subtitle.
" Handbook of Electronic Laboratory Notebooks: Applications and Case Studies"
By Dr. Richard Lysakowski
This handbook covers ELN system requirements, market research and market recent developments. It includes significant market research, and applications and case studies of Electronic Laboratory Notebook Systems in various areas of chemical and life sciences and engineering. The applications and case studies span from early research and discovery to post-market introduction of products, e.g., Quality Assurance in manufacturing and environmental applications. Case studies are of leading products that are being used in the market now. The book covers current market research and current practices for application of ELNs. Then it provides case studies to show how various products were applied, what results were acheived, and where real traction and breakthrough improvements in scientific performance have been achieved. A standard case study format is used to provide consistent reporting, with exceptions given that are particularly noteworthy. This is a timely book that will help end users and suppliers understand how to more effectively apply ELNs to achieve goals of better knowledge management, higher quality recordkeeping, shoter project cycle times, better decision support, and ultimately improving efficiencies across an entire coporate value chain, including partnerships with collaborators in the extended community.
In preparation.
"Cost/Benefit
Analysis of Electronic Recordkeeping Systems and Electronic Notebooks"
- a workshop and software toolkit focused on the needs of your company.
A workshop that uncovers the major business improvements which are
possible in your organization in R&D and testing laboratories
by applying collaborative electronic notebooks, document management,
workflow, groupware, and related technologies for team coordination.
Geared for scientists, R&D managers, MIS, Notebook Administrators,
Records & Archives Managers, specialists from Proprietary Information
and/or Library Services Groups, Patent or Legal Departments, Microfilming
Services and Quality Assurance.
Identifies current costs of paper systems for laboratory recordkeeping,
bottlenecks in paper-based recordkeeping, and areas of the greatest
potential savings from moving to electronic recordbooks in your company.
Your company's final report can be utilized to help justify migration
to electronic recordkeeping and electronic notebooks, and assess your
company’s state of readiness in moving forward with electronic
recordkeeping and electronic notebook initiatives. It uses a proprietary
software toolkit developed from years of experience cost-justifying
systems, providing conservative answers to time-to-return investment,
ROI, IRR, as well as harder to measure subjective and quantitative
variables like increased productivity due to increased collaboration
and information sharing, reduced litigation costs, and increased process
management and quality improvement.
Price varies depending on agreed upon scope. Reasonable industry consulting rates are charged. It can be done in as little as 2.5 days of work, including reporting.
The software toolkit costs $7500, not including travel or out-of-pocket
expenses. It requires some training to apply correctly.
"Collaborative Electronic Notebooks and Knowledge
Management Systems for R&D Enterprises" - a training course
Organizations are struggling to find competitive advantages to increase
sales, stay profitable, and make the most effective use of their employees
and other limited resources. Technology and re-engineering can
provide some solutions. Scientists are taking the next steps
in laboratory automation and scientific computing: collaborative electronic
laboratory notebooks, groupware, workflow, document management systems,
and advanced object-oriented LIMS. However, requirements are
not always clear and people are often bewildered by the broad array
of offerings. Understanding and evaluating them is very expensive
in human effort. Better ways exist to quickly learn and implement
them !
This course reviews the vocabulary and full range of concepts and
requirements for electronic notebooks and recordkeeping, groupware,
workflow, object-oriented data management, document management, and
knowledge management systems. It gives case studies for how these
systems are being applied in R&D and manufacturing labs today.
The legal and regulatory requirements for fully electronic recordkeeping
to be accepted by federal agencies and patent offices will be covered,
including recently released regulations for software systems, such
as the FDA's 21 CFR Part 11. Technologies still present significant
barriers, though a few commercial systems can now be used to pilot
and benchmark systems against your application needs. You will learn
about the innovative capabilities of these systems and the differences
between them. Leading products will be discussed and compared,
along with their optimum applications areas.
People, usability, and operational issues still present great barriers
to successful implementations. Helpful knowledge and strategies
for selecting and implementing systems will be given, along with other
useful information to demystify the process.
This course provides the fastest and most practical detailed introduction
to the legal, regulatory, technical, and social aspects of this brave
new world of Collaborative Electronic Notebooks, R&D Team Computing
Systems, and Knowledge Management Systems. It also shows you
how to make them succeed in your organization.
Course is regularly scheduled and held at American Chemical
Society National Meetings, or can be scheduled directly through CENSA
to be held for a group on site at your company.
Web-based Collaborative
Computing for Scientists, Engineers, and Project Managers: How to
Connect, Collect and Collaborate Using the Hottest Technologies"
- a short course
The World Wide Web has exploded into a global information resource
for virtually all professions. So prevalent, it is part of the
cost of staying in business for many companies. In the hands
of scientists, engineers, project managers and other business people,
Web-based collaborative computing tools are valuable because they
not only speed communication, but can also decrease time to discovery,
project cycle times, and even time to market for complex new products.
But first you must understand the vocabulary, concepts, component
technologies, and be proficient in its advancing rapidly tools and
techniques.
Through lectures and hands-on demonstrations, this course provides
background on the Web and an introduction to the leading tools collaborative
computing tools available now. You will see how to browse, navigate,
query, view, create new project areas, download and upload files,
send E-mail to sites any business organization, communicate with scientists
and engineers all over the world, and stay abreast of what's happening
in your organization using various features in current systems.
A review of software and hardware tools needed to "get connected
and get collaborating" will be covered to help you choose viable
products and equipment. The course objective is for you to "hit
the ground running" when you return home.
Learn
about the easiest ways to get connected and stay connected - the first
time is usually the hardest.
Learn
how to select and use powerful shareware and commercial tools to make
effective use of your time.
Understand
the most important business benefits of Web-based tools for team computing
and their critical strengths and weaknesses.
Learn
about the the Web's cornucopia of resources, what's available, and
how to harvest it.
Get
tips and advice on the future of Web-based collaborative computing
tools from practicing specialists.
Gain
actionable information and new methodologies to attack scientific
problems and hit the ground running and using the resources of the web!
In the Demonstration Laboratory, you see how to collaborate over
the web. Most importantly, you will learn about and visit many
more sites that include free and commercial software tools, libraries
and archives.
To order any of the above publications, workshops, or
training courses, call CENSA at 781-395-3004, or email 
