As the global open access (OA) movement continues to evolve, so too does the complexity of managing compliance. Research institutions now face a growing array of mandates from funders, governments, and internal bodies, each with their own unique requirements.
Symplectic Elements is developed to ensure institutions can meet and track compliance with these evolving open access requirements efficiently and effectively.
Researchers can easily deposit publications into open repositories with the push of a button, significantly increasing deposit rates, while administrators can monitor, track, prompt, and report – driving open access engagement and compliance in-line with your institutional policies.
Intelligent data harvesting and easy deposit
Intelligent data harvesting means Symplectic Elements is always working for you in the background, continuously identifying and matching research outputs to populate your publication record. As the metadata of scholarly works is already in Symplectic Elements, full-text deposit becomes as simple as a few mouse clicks.
By supporting multiple, independently configurable policies, Symplectic Elements enables flexible workflows and smarter compliance tracking – all while reducing administrative burden and supporting your institutional open access goals.
Integrate with your broader research ecosystem
Symplectic Elements connects seamlessly to your systems and workflows, ensuring accurate data flow and enabling end-to-end open access management.
- Institutional repositories (e.g. Figshare, DSpace, EPrints)
- Publisher APIs and open databases (e.g. DOAJ, PubMed Central)
- Researcher identifiers and profiles (e.g. ORCID, CrossRef, Dimensions)
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Simplify compliance monitoring across multiple policies
Real-time insight into engagement across multiple policies makes it easy to identify gaps, take corrective actions, and ensure compliance with policies.
Administrators can quickly visualize engagement levels across departments or groups, take informed action like depositing on behalf of researchers, and highlight high performers as advocates.
- Track compliance across multiple OA policies in real time.
- Monitor who has deposited what, where, and when.
- Flag non-compliant outputs and take corrective action.
- Record article-level exceptions and opt-outs in bulk.
- Generate compliance reports by policy, funder, researcher, or department.
- Delegate tasks with OA-specific staff roles.
Gain clarity and confidence in your reporting
Whether you’re tracking for the REF, NIH Public Access Policy, or ARC mandates, Symplectic Elements automates compliance tracking by surfacing the right information for the right stakeholders, at the right time.
- Improve the completeness and accuracy of OA data.
- Lighten the load on researchers and support teams.
- Confidently evidence OA performance to funders, partners, and leadership.
Advancing Open Access at Karolinska Institutet
Karolinska Institutet (KI), one of the world’s leading medical universities, has transformed how it manages and shares research to drive its open science strategy by integrating Symplectic Elements as its Research Information Management System (KI RIMS) and Figshare as KI Open Archive.
Our integrations at work
Have more than one repository?
No problem! Symplectic 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!
“The rate of deposit has increased by 1000% within 12 months following the switch-on of the publication prompt in Symplectic Elements”
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