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Symplectic Elements

Collect, analyse, showcase & report on all your scholarly activities 

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Powering the Research Management Ecosystem

Symplectic Elements is a highly-configurable research management system which ingests data from multiple sources to build a truly comprehensive picture of your organisational data.

You can structure and connect scholarly information throughout the research lifecycle, reducing administrative burden, deriving powerful new insights, and showcasing the real-world impact of your research.

Symplectic Elements goes beyond traditional Research Information Management (RIM) systems, offering you tools for research funding and awards management, equipment and technology profiles, and assessment exercises – all within one easily-navigable, single source of truth.

Public Profiles Open Access Awards management Impact tracking Research Assessment Tech Transfer

One Source of Truth for Research Activity

Symplectic Elements continuously captures research data from the widest range of internal and external sources in the industry – including PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, Crossref and more – creating a single source of truth for your institution’s research activity.

Intelligent harvesting works in the background to automatically capture publications, grants, citations, altmetrics, and other research metrics. Data can then be centrally managed, structured, and reused for reporting, assessment, open access compliance, and public engagement.

 

What is Research Information Management?

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Collect and reuse research information

Continuously and automatically capture publications, grants, citations, and more from the widest range of data sources – ready to reuse across profiles, reporting, and compliance.

Showcase academic achievements

Turn your data into branded, mobile-friendly public profiles that highlight publications, grants, teaching, and professional activities – boosting visibility and collaboration.

Simplify faculty evaluation

Streamline annual reviews, promotions, and peer assessments with flexible workflows that reuse existing data, removing duplication and reducing admin for everyone.

Manage funding workflows seamlessly 

Support the full funding lifecycle – from promoting opportunities to post-award tracking – with collaborative workflows and real-time visibility into pipelines and success rates.

Showcase your research community

Public profiles in Symplectic Elements go beyond basic CVs by surfacing biographies, publications, grants, teaching activities, patents, and more. Institutions can highlight specialist facilities, equipment, research groups, and interdisciplinary collaborations, creating a complete and accessible picture of their research community.

Profiles are fully branded to your institution, mobile-friendly, accessible, and always up to date – providing a compelling, searchable portal for internal and external audiences.

 

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Support Research Evaluation exercises

Elements provides specialist tools for streamlining research assessment exercises and ensuring compliance with government and institutional policies. Configurable workflows make it easy to gather submissions, capture feedback, and track review progress.

Out-of-the-box workflows support exercises such as the UK REF, ERA, and PBRF, as well as internal processes like publication approvals, conference attendance requests, and promotion rounds.

 

Manage assessment exercises

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Manage government research assessments

Gather, collate, and report on research outputs, outcomes, and activities to meet submission requirements for REF, ERA, PBRF, and internal frameworks.

Support open access workflows

Guide researchers to deposit the right version of their outputs in just a few clicks, while monitoring compliance across multiple OA policies and repositories.

Track and demonstrate impact

Capture qualitative and quantitative evidence of societal, economic, and cultural impact, linking it to outputs, grants, and engagement activities for richer narratives.

New White House OSTP Public Access Recommendations: Maturing your Institutional Open Access Strategy 1

Gain Strategic Insight with the Reporting Hub

The Reporting Hub transforms research data into intelligence that drives decisions. Highly configurable dashboards and reports allow you to:

  • Analyse trends in outputs, funding, citations, and collaborations
  • Compare performance year-on-year
  • Monitor progress toward strategic objectives
  • Track compliance with OA mandates and government frameworks

Advanced reporting options include a specialist SQL-based reporting database, enabling direct querying, integration with BI tools like Tableau or Power BI, and creation of custom report templates.

 

Analyse and activate your data

Improve compliance with open access mandates

The Open Access Monitor in Symplectic Elements streamlines compliance across multiple funder, government, and institutional policies. Tailored deposit prompts guide researchers to upload the right version in just a few clicks, while real-time dashboards let administrators track engagement, flag non-compliant outputs, and record exceptions. Flexible policy targeting, automated repository integration, and detailed reporting at researcher, department, or institutional level make it easy to drive deposit rates, reduce admin time, and meet evolving OA requirements.

 

Streamline open access deposit

Technical Infrastructure

Symplectic Elements provides a secure, interoperable, and scalable environment for your research data:

  • Automated, comprehensive data collection from the widest range of integrations in the industry, with support for identifiers like ISSN, GRID, ROR, and Dimensions grants.
  • Flexible and interoperable through a REST-based API and SQL Reporting Database for integration with data lakes and BI tools.
  • Secure and scalable hosting with ISO 27001, SOC 2, and NIST compliance, encryption, disaster recovery, and uptime monitoring.

Transparent, end-to-end awards management

Purpose-built to reduce administrative barriers, the Awards Management module connects researchers, administrators, and data in one hub. Configurable workflows, clear status tracking, and integrated reporting make the entire process – from opportunity to post-award – visible and efficient.

 

Manage the full funding lifecycle

The widest range of data sources in the industry

Symplectic Elements offers more automated data integrations than any competing products: our state of the art automatic claiming and identifier search functionality will save your researchers time and effort. We go beyond just publications metadata, capturing citations, altmetrics, and other research metrics as well as direct links to open access files. Our seamless Dimensions integration offers the first fully searchable grants data source and will even automatically create links between publications and grants.

Data Automated Search Automatic Claiming Auto-Link Publications & Grants Research Metrics Full-Text Links
Altmetric Publications ✓
ARXIV Publications ✓ ✓ ✓
CINII Publications ✓
Crossref Publications ✓
Dimensions* Publications & Grants ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
DBLP Publications ✓
Europe-PMC Publications ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Figshare Publications ✓
Google Books Publications ✓
MLA* Publications ✓
ORCID* Publications ✓ ✓
PubMed Publications ✓ ✓
REPEC Publications ✓
SSRN Publications ✓ ✓
Scopus* Publications ✓ ✓ ✓
Web Of Science* Publications ✓ ✓ ✓

*Subject to license/membership

Symplectic Elements now an ORCID Certified Service Provider 2

We wanted to create a single, multi-university resource that provides
enhanced visibility into expertise, equipment and research
support services and available IP.

Tim Cain, Ohio Innovation Exchange

This tool connects our scholarly and research expertise with audiences like media,
prospective graduate students, and academic collaborators, while simultaneously
helping faculty keep track of the very important work they do. It is a game-changer for U of T.

Associate Vice-President Research, University of Toronto

The deeply integrated environment we now have will greatly enhance
our ability to manage the range of repository activities and strengthen
our position in preparing for any future research assessment exercises.

Digital Development Manager, University of Sussex

Researcher profiles and end-to-end funded research
project management all now take place in the one interface,
which has huge benefits to our researchers.

Liam Cleere, University College Dublin

The discovery module has provided a delightful and fantastic
searchable public interface to our to our faculty.

Paul Bergen, Tufts University

The rate of deposit has increased by 1000% within 12 months following the switch-on of
the publication prompt in Elements and discussion about the HEFCE Open Access policy.

Queen Mary University of London

Elements impressed us with its simplicity, flexibility and control
for individual faculty members, and great responsiveness with customer service.

Clarke Iakovakis, Oklahoma State University

I think the most important feature Symplectic Elements came with was interoperability
The fact that it had that flow through profiles to the repository was really, really valuable for us.

Research Advisor, La Trobe University

We love everything Symplectic adds to Scholars.
It's definitely a timesaver for our researchers.

Duke University

Symplectic Elements' ability to efficiently organise research outputs,
manage researcher profiles, and seamlessly integrate with internal and external systems,
coupled with features like internal research assessment support and flexible self-service
reporting, make it the ideal choice for showcasing and managing our research activity effectively.

University Librarian, Cranfield University
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