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There are three ProtoGenie libraries of protocols as follows:

Personal Protocol Library
This is a directory of your own protocols.  Of course, you are permitted to make a copy of a protocol from this library to use as a template for a new protocol.  To take some action on a particular protocol, click on the Action dropdown menu to the right of the title and select the action you wish to perform.  Actions include Run, Edit, Edit Copy, Users, Results, Backup, and Delete.  To use a protocol from this library as a template for a new protocol, click on Edit Copy.  This will bring up the ProtoGenie Composer/Editor page containing a copy of the desired protocol ready for changes required by your new protocol.

Generally, you can browse your list of protocols and find what you are looking for, so that it will not be necessary to search your own library of protocols.  However, if you have been principle investigator on many projects, it is conceivable that you will have an extraordinarily long list of protocols in your personal library.  In that case, you can use the ProtoGenie search feature at the top of your list of protocols.

ProtoGenie General Library of Protocols
The General Library of Protocols is a ProtoGenie archive of protocols that have been created using ProtoGenie Composer/Editor.  This archive is searchable by author, ID number, title, research method, and key words.  Each protocol is given a status of private or public by the author when it is created.  The default status is "Private" unless the author resets the status to "Public."  With Public Protocols created by users other than yourself the only Actions available are Run and Edit Copy. If you use Edit Copy, save that copy, and make it Public, all Actions available to an Author (Run, Edit, Edit Copy, Users, Results, backup, and Delete  ) will be action options when you access the Saved Copy.  

Typical Designs Library (Under development)
The Typical Designs Library is an archive of partially completed protocols organized by research method.  After users select the research area most appropriate to their studies their list of typical design protocols will contain the designs most associated with their selected research area.  For example, a typical design for classical control group experiments is the popular pretest-posttest control group design in which one group receives a treatment with measurements before and after the treatment while the other group gets only the pre and posttest measurements.

In typical designs protocols, the locations in the specific designs where groups, measurements, and treatments are to be presented contain place holders labeled "unspecified ( event )". For example, where a treatment is to be defined in the protocol the label will simply be "Unspecified Treatment."  The same goes for measurements, control events, and groups.  

Since typical design protocols are organized by research method, then the only search criterion is research method and the number of protocols under research methods is relatively small, then you only have to designate the research method that most applies to your study.