protocols.io

Princeton University students, faculty, and staff now have access to free premium accounts on protocols.io, an open-access repository of step-by-step, detailed protocols and methods for researchers across multiple disciplines, particularly those in the sciences and engineering.

Protocols.io allows Princeton researchers to create, manage, and share their research protocols and methods with other users on the platform, making them freely available for other scholars and improving reproducibility across the field. Users may also choose to keep their research private.

Institutional membership to protocols.io is provided by the Princeton University Library.

• Unlimited private repositories
• One-on-one training from protocol.io staff
  • Request a training webinar 
• Conversion of one existing protocol into protocols.io
  • Submit a PDF of a protocol that you or your lab already have and the Protocols.io staff editors will convert it into a protocol for you! How to submit an existing protocol for conversion (video 1:28)

• Protocols.io
• Create an account with your Princeton email address
  • Existing users with a non-Princeton email address go here to upgrade your account
• Setting up your account and getting started on protocols.io [19min video]

A complete list of video tutorials can be found here. 

• Introduction to Protocols.io [video 03:19]
• Create a new protocol [video 01:34]
• Create a new private protocol [step-by-step guide]
• How to bring structure to your research with Protocols.io [video 19:31]
• Developing protocols with Protocols.io [video 24:12]
• Exporting protocols and files [video 00:51]
• Publishing protocols [video 01:25]
  • Publishing protocols with PLOS ONE and Protocols.io [video 1:00:13]
• Creating a new version of a protocol [video 01:23]
• Running protocols [video 01:35]
• Create a new group/lab workspace [video 00:31]

• Margaret I. Davis 2018. Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience Immunofluorescence Protocol. Protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.kz3cx8n  
• Sophie Adler, Kirstie Whitaker, Mira Semmelroch, Konrad Wagstyl 2018. MELD Protocol 5 - Post-processing Pipeline. Protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.qendtde 
• Lenny Teytelman 2016. Making a hit science video. protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.emqbc5w 

For questions about Protocols.io please contact Meghan Testerman, Behavioral Sciences Librarian at mtesterman@princeton.edu