As the global Open Access (OA) movement continues to evolve, so too does the complexity of managing compliance. Research institutions now face a growing array of mandates from funders, governments, and internal bodies, each with their own unique requirements.
In release 6.20, we’re delighted to deliver the first phase of a powerful new suite of functionality to support open access monitoring and reporting in Symplectic Elements. We’re making it easier for you to quickly access the tools that you need and to tailor them to specific institutional or externally-mandated requirements.
To learn more about everything in this exciting release, you can find the full release notes on our support site. You can also register to join us for next week’s Elements v6.20 release webinar here.
These enhancements will give you greater control and transparency over your OA strategy, including support for a broader range of OA pathways, multi-policy compliance and exceptions, deposit prompts tailored to specific target groups, and a new and improved consolidated navigation UX for all OA related actions.
For those of you who utilise the Discovery Module for public profiles, this release also includes streamlined access to configuration settings which will allow you to more easily make your profiles portal your own. You can easily make changes to branding style, logo iterations, and names and labels for navigation elements such as tabs, lists and favourites.
Elements 6.20 also sees the introduction of cookie consent management, and improvements to external organisation functionality for Awards Management (RFS).
We have also made several other smaller improvements based on feature requests from our community, including a new configurable module display name for Grants, a new ORCID integration option, a new quick link to the Search page, updates to the User Profile Completeness report, and more.
As always, the new version of Elements and associated upgrade instructions can be found in the Elements upgrade forum.