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Build a Better Experiment: Laboratory Protocols for Everyone

TMC Library offers three searchable databases of laboratory protocols in the life sciences, by Jove, Wiley, and Springer.

The JoVE Research and Education database includes over 18,000 cutting-edge, peer-reviewed videos of laboratory experiments, protocols and techniques–as well as introductory concept videos, designed to educate students at all academic levels, in high school and beyond.

Wiley Current Protocols is a database of recognized and reproducible procedures and techniques for conducting scientific procedures in the life sciences. This collection is comprised of 18 journals with over 25,000 step-by-step techniques, procedures, and practical overviews that provide researchers with reliable, efficient methods to ensure reproducible results.    

Springer Protocols has world’s largest collection of biomedical  and life sciences protocols with over 65,000 reproducible laboratory protocols in biomedicine and life sciences, covering over 15 subject areas.  Legacy and current versions of protocols are included and published online as a book series.  SpringerProtocols’s content is available on Springer Nature Experiments, the free-to-use platform with built in AI technology, that helps scientists discover the most relevant protocols for their research projects.

All of these protocols can be discovered by searching the library’s catalog or our A to Z list of databases.