Public Profiles

Showcase your research expertise

 

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Leverage the power of Symplectic Elements as a Research Information Management System to automatically populate public profiles that showcase your greatest assets: the expertise and experience of your researchers and faculty.

The Discovery Module is a dedicated component within Symplectic Elements which can be licensed as part of your solution.

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Promote what you do best

The Discovery Module repurposes the rich and often unique data already collected within Symplectic Elements to populate fully-rounded profiles that showcase what you do best.

These enhanced profiles bring together biographical information, linked publications, grants, and professional & teaching activities, allowing researchers to showcase the full scope of their scholarly activities and expertise.

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Make your expertise accessible, engaging and impactful

The Discovery Module can be named and styled in line with your institution’s visual identity and strategic priorities, providing a flexible, branded gateway into your research expertise: a public window into your academic community.

The Discovery Module is accessibility conformant and mobile-responsive, making your public profiles available to the widest audience, anytime, anywhere. Embedded video and media content within profiles helps bring research to life.

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Enable collaboration and innovation

Researchers can easily signal on their profile what they are available for, be it project work, mentorship, supervision, or collaboration – making it simple to find the right people to drive your research forward. Profiles are designed with SEO in mind.

Our interactive Collaboration Network visualisation lets users easily view and navigate connections and relationships across institutional networks, helping users to identify potential collaborators, mentorship opportunities, or peer reviewers.

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Automated harvesting

The real power of Symplectic Elements lies in its ability to continuously harvest data from the widest range of sources in the industry, giving users a view of your researchers and faculty that is in-depth, in context, and up to date. Researchers can use their public profiles not only to exhibit their publications, but also demonstrate impact and expertise through items such as:

  • Citation counts and bibliometrics
  • Leadership and teaching activities
  • Streaming media such as lectures, presentations or panels
Specialist equipment

Enable innovation and drive R&D

University campuses have expensive, specialised equipment and resources such as electron microscopes, 3D printers, and testing facilities which can represent considerable financial investment and require advanced training. Partnerships with companies might include lease agreements, access, and training to leverage these types of resources in lieu of having to own this equipment themselves.

The Discovery Module lets you maximise the usage of your high-value facilities and technical experts by creating profiles for institutional equipment, technology and services. These profiles can:

  • Include custom fields (such as availability, settings or location)
  • Be linked to other records (such as people who have been trained on it, or research outcomes that have been made possible through it)

Accelerate technology transfer

Your public profile portal can act as a central hub for connecting academic expertise with industry needs – supporting technology transfer, licensing opportunities, and commercialisation.

Profile portals showcase patents, projects, and publications, enabling researchers to signal availability for collaboration, supervision, or consultancy. These profiles are SEO-optimised and fully searchable by name, keyword, tags, or title.

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Showcase organisational groups and research centres

Display departments, labs, and special interest groups as rich, public-facing pages which bring together key information in one curated space.

Groups can be linked to people, publications, grants, and equipment – creating dynamic landing pages that reflect the real structure and impact of your organisation.

New in Symplectic Elements: Enhancing Research Visibility with Abstracts & AI Summaries in Public Profiles 2

AI-generated summaries for publication abstracts

Abstracts can be displayed within researcher profiles and instantly summarized using the latest AI technologies to allow visitors to quickly gain an overview and assess a particular output’s relevance to their research.

Opt-out of AI summarization is available at both an organizational and an individual level, giving a high level of control.

 

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Join a growing community of institutions that have selected the Symplectic Elements to showcase their researchers’ expertise

Use Elements to power your own profiles

Using our powerful API and rich data sources, Elements can be used to automatically populate your public research profiles, institutional websites or open source profile solutions such as VIVO.

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

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

We love everything Symplectic adds to Scholars.
It's definitely a timesaver for our researchers.

Duke University

Symplectic Elements' ability to efficiently organise research outputs,
manage researcher profiles, and seamlessly integrate with internal and external systems,
coupled with features like internal research assessment support and flexible self-service
reporting, make it the ideal choice for showcasing and managing our research activity effectively.

University Librarian, Cranfield University