Our Clients

Symplectic serves a community of 120+ research organisations, and 50+ grant-making organisations, and
more than 350,000 researchers in over 15 countries.

Our clients include leading universities, consortia, specialist research institutes and funders.

Symplectic Elements Clients

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Community Engagement

Whether you are new to Symplectic Elements or have been a client for over 10 years, there is always much to be shared with and learnt from your peers. We provide a variety of opportunities to engage with us and our friendly and helpful community after you become a client, including: 

  • Events: There’s nothing like getting together face-to-face, so we host annual user meetings in each of our major regions (North America, Europe and Australia). Our user meetings are a great chance to talk to our team and learn from our community. 
  • Webinars: We offer a range of webinars to help you get the most out of Elements including product updates from our team and presentations by our community. 
  • Community Slack Channel: Chat with us, chat with each other. Exchange ideas, best practices, or ask a question of your peers; our community Slack channel gives you a space for community collaboration as well as for news and updates from us. 
  • Community Repository: Our community repository (powered by Figshare) provides space for our community to share materials about how they use Elements including presentations, help guides, advocacy materials, and even reporting or API queries.

Hear from our user community

The following videos were captured during our virtual user meetings that took place over several months in 2020. Topics range from implementation, reporting, integrations and engagement.

 

 

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Case Studies

 

 

Duke University: Automating NIH Grants Compliance with Symplectic Elements

65% reduction in non-compliance cases following automation, along with reduction of manual workload from 60% of one librarian’s duties to a much more manageable 25%.

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University of Technology Sydney: Distilling Research Impact using Symplectic Elements

This case study explores UTS’ approach to embedding and demonstrating research impact through the initiative, and its use of Symplectic Elements and other Digital Science tools to support its data collation processes and embed a culture of impact into daily workflows.

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University College Dublin: Awards Management in Elements

UCD has been using Symplectic Elements as a research management information system across the university since 2018, working closely with the Symplectic team during that time. In 2020, due to the nearing obsolescence of a custom-developed in-house solution, UCD was seeking a new grants system to manage their funding applications and projects.

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Carnegie Mellon University: Tracking SDGs using Symplectic Elements

Discover how SDG has been utilising Elements to help track researchers’ engagement with and outputs related to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, a set of global objectives agreed to by all countries the United Nations as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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Versus Arthritis: Exploring Research Impact

During the 2023 Symplectic Grant Tracker user day, we heard from Rosina Bevan, Senior Research Analyst, on Versus Arthritis’ approach to research impact and how the team are trialling a new impact capture methodology by making use of the progress reporting forms functionality within Grant Tracker.

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University of Oxford: Expertise Profile Search

The University of Oxford has been a Symplectic client since 2009. Recently, the University expanded its long-standing Symplectic Elements instance by implementing the Discovery Module, creating its new Research@Oxford expertise search portal.

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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