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

 

 

University of Oxford

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. David Saunders, Research Information Analyst, and Martin Carrolchick, Research Information Officer, presented at the 2023 European User Day in London on the context and implementation of the new portal.

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Worldwide Cancer Research: The Practicalities of Partnership

Worldwide Cancer Research was the first Grant Tracker client, and has used the platform since 2011 to manage its full grants lifecycle. During the 2023 User Day in London, we heard from Peter Fisher, Research Funding Manager at Worldwide Cancer Research, on the practicalities of partnership and how Grant Tracker can be used to identify, manage and track joint funding initiatives.

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20 Years of Symplectic

Discover the last two decades of research change with our Symplectic time capsule – from our humble beginnings out of Imperial College, to a globally-positioned research technology specialist serving the world’s leading organisations.

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KU Leuven

KU Leuven has been a user of Symplectic Elements since 2017. At our 2023 European User Day in London, we heard from them on how they integrated Elements with Dataverse to meet the metadata and reporting requirements of FOSB and FRIS.

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Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz

With “Gutenberg Research Elements”, the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz is introducing a research information system that offers scientists a wide range of options for recording, documenting and merging research information.

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Reflections on the REF 2021

Our new paper explores the role of Symplectic Elements as a Research Information Management System in supporting the REF submissions process. Featuring University of Essex, University College London, Anglia Ruskin University and Liverpool John Moores University.

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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