Open Access

Streamline your open access workflows

Use your repository as a data source for Elements

Our newest repository integrations (RT2) are built on a foundation of harvest functionality which establishes the repository as a data source for Elements. By harvesting outputs from your repository and matching them to existing Elements records we ensure that Elements maintains an accurate and up-to-date representation of the research outputs in your repository. This allows Elements to provide authoritative open access monitoring and minimises duplicates. It also enables academics and administrators to view and interact with all of their open access outputs in a single system, saving time and effort.

Easy to maintain repository integration

To ensure the repository integration is easy to implement and maintain, all configuration of the integration including writing and updating crosswalks can be completed from within the Elements UI. Fully configurable crosswalks define how your data will be mapped between Elements and the repository. To ensure they are easy to configure and maintain we offer an innovative crosswalk editor, enabling system administrators to edit and test their crosswalks directly within the Elements UI.

“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

Streamlined deposit workflows

Elements offers researchers an intuitive, easy-to-use deposit workflow making it easy for them to deposit files to their institutional repository via Elements. Depositing via Elements, allows researchers to take advantage of the metadata already collected in the system from one of our many automated data sources – all they need to do is add a file or an OA Location.

From the researcher perspective, Elements serves as an alternative ‘front end’ to the repository. Researchers receive deposit prompts throughout Elements, encouraging OA engagement by highlighting publications which could be deposited in line with the organisation’s OA Policy. Enabling deposit via Elements simplifies workflows for academics, saving time and increasing deposit rates.

To ensure researchers know what they are permitted to deposit, Elements provides a range of deposit guidance at the point of deposit. Deposit advice from Sherpa/RoMEO is available as standard, and in addition administrators can provide their own guidance at the organisational level or for particular publishers or journals. Users can optionally supply information about reuse licenses (eg. Creative Commons licences) or request embargoes as they complete their deposit.

We integrate with:

A Pathway to Open Research with Richer Research Profiles

The Francis Crick Institute is using technology to empower its researchers to have richer research profiles and to make it easier for them to publish their papers and data Open Access.

The best-in-class research information management system which brings together Symplectic Elements and Figshare allows them to:

Monitor their publications better
Capture manuscripts earlier to add acknowledgements of grants and all Crick staff contributions
Get a repository that handles both papers and data for open research

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Our integrations at work

Loughborough University

Cambridge University

Carnegie Mellon University

California Digital Library

Have more than one repository?

No problem! Elements can be integrated with multiple repositories simultaneously allowing institutions to consolidate deposit and monitoring activities within a single interface.

Don’t see your repository? Contact us!

Open Access monitoring with Elements

Measuring engagement with Open Access policies can be time-consuming and difficult. Administrators spend valuable time chasing researchers to deposit their articles, jumping between many different systems to track engagement with their policy. The Open Access Monitor streamlines these activities, creating a centralised hub for monitoring open access engagement and compliance.

The OA Monitor enables you to:

Easily monitor and track who has deposited publications, to ensure researchers’ work remains within policy requirements.
Record article-level exceptions and opt-outs against the policy.
Build reports on the level of compliance, by researcher, department or research group.
Easily visualise gaps in engagement in a single intuitive place, so administrators can take informed actions like depositing on behalf of the researcher, or carrying out advocacy or training for those who may be unaware of the policy.
Filter articles by linked funder to identify those that fall within a funder’s policy.
Recognise individual departments or researchers who are exhibiting high levels of engagement to empower them as advocates.

Define your own OA strategy:

To support OA Monitoring and deposit prompts, Elements offers the ability for administrators to configure their OA Policy within the system identifying which publications are targeted for deposit. This allows you to define your OA strategy – putting you in control of how you wish to focus your OA activities and manage your workflows.