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.
The Discovery Module repurposes the rich and often unique data already collected within Symplectic Elements to automatically populate fully-rounded public profiles that showcase your greatest assets: the expertise and experience of your researchers and faculty.
Promote 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.
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.
Make your expertise accessible, engaging and impactful
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.
“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.”
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.
Enable collaboration and innovation
Our interactive Collaboration Network visualization lets users easily view and navigate connections and relationships across institutional networks, helping users to identify potential collaborators, mentorship opportunities, or peer reviewers.
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:
- Streaming media such as lectures, presentations or panels
- Citation counts and bibliometrics
- Leadership and teaching activities
Enable innovation and R&D
The Discovery Module lets you maximize 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)
“We wanted to create a single, multi-university resource that provides enhanced visibility into expertise, equipment and research support services and available IP.”
Showcase organizational groups and centers
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.
AI-generated summaries
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.
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