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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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

It helps keep us organised and keeps everything in one place.

Peter Fisher, Worldwide Cancer Research

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

Working with Symplectic Grant Tracker has streamlined our grants application process,
with automation of various processes being key to saving us time.

Research & Grants Manager, Bowel Research UK