Powering the Research Management Ecosystem

We work in pursuit of the advancement of knowledge, delivering flexible research solutions that help universities, institutions and funding organisations achieve their research goals.

 

      For Research Performing Organisations For Research Funding Organisations

Manage research information

Structure and connect your scholarly information to reduce administrative burden, derive powerful new insights, and showcase the real-world impact of your research.

Develop funding proposals

Promote relevant funding opportunities, support researchers during the proposal development phase, streamline internal reviews and approvals, and manage post-award activities and reporting.

Control the grants lifecycle

Streamline the management and administration of grant-making and ensure that your grant funding is strategic and impactful.

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Over 20 years, Symplectic has proved its worth to its customers around the world in some of the most prestigious institutions:

  • Thirteen of the Top 25 universities in the world, and 25 of the Top 100 (Times Higher Education rankings)
  • Nine Russell Group universities in the UK
  • Three Ivy League universities in the US
  • Three Group of Eight universities in Australia
  • Leading long-term clients such as the University of Oxford, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Auckland, and the National History Museum (UK)
  • Research funding and philanthropic clients such as The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Macmillan Cancer Support, and Worldwide Cancer Research.

 

20 years of Symplectic: Discover more

Learn more about how Symplectic has served the research community for the last two decades.

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Discover the last two decades of research change with our Symplectic time capsule.

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Find out more about events during our 20th anniversary year and how you can get involved.

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Our first in a series of client spotlights celebrating our anniversary year, with Oklahoma State.

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We ranked first in client satisfaction

in a 2018 OCLC Global Survey & Report

 “Good support, responsive to client feedback. [The Symplectic team] focuses on researcher engagement, standards and automation and is clearly passionate about the sector.” 

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Software built by a team of research information specialists.

At Symplectic, our products and services have been developed in close collaboration with our international client base for more than 15 years. Collectively, our team have decades of experience and specialist knowledge in the capture and management of scholarly information.

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With this partnership, we have the opportunity to position ourselves as
a world leader in the development of the scholarly ecosystem.

Keith Webster, Dean of University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon

I cannot overstate how pleased we have been.
We have to have confidence to work with a partner
for at least 5 years on a project of this size.

Caleb Smith, Senior Strategy Manager for Research Intelligence & Analytics, University of Michigan

“Faculty need only spend perhaps less than an hour a year to prepare and submit their annual reports.”

Associate Dean, Carnegie Mellon University at Qatar

"Leveraging the interoperability between Symplectic Elements and DSpace has increased policy-driven institutional repository deposits by over 350%."

Ellen Phillips, Open Access Specialist, Boston University

Elements elegantly connected our multi-university system providing a
single source of truth throughout OIEx.

Tim Cain, The Ohio Innovation Exchange (OIEx)

The University measures the individual research activity of academic staff. This Measure of Research Activity (MoRA) requires the collection of publication data from faculty. Symplectic Elements supports this beautifully.

Floris van der Leest, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

[Elements] will help to bring transparency to the richness of thought showcased within non-traditional publications, providing a more holistic representation of faculties’ scholarly work.

Caleb Smith, University of Michigan

Feedback to date has been extremely positive from all levels across the University, with individual academics and colleagues actively promoting the ease of use of the system.

Rachel Baird, Research Policy Analyst, University of Liverpool