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

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.

Case Studies

Automating NIH Grants Compliance with Symplectic Elements at Duke University 1

Duke University: Automating NIH Grants Compliance with Symplectic Elements

65% reduction in non-compliance cases following automation, along with reduction of manual workload from 60% of one librarian’s duties to a much more manageable 25%.

University of Technology Sydney: Distilling Research Impact using Symplectic Elements

This case study explores UTS’ approach to embedding and demonstrating research impact through the initiative, and its use of Symplectic Elements and other Digital Science tools to support its data collation processes and embed a culture of impact into daily workflows.

University College Dublin: Awards Management in Elements

UCD has been using Symplectic Elements as a research management information system across the university since 2018, working closely with the Symplectic team during that time. In 2020, due to the nearing obsolescence of a custom-developed in-house solution, UCD was seeking a new grants system to manage their funding applications and projects.

Carnegie Mellon University: Tracking SDGs using Symplectic Elements

Discover how SDG has been utilising Elements to help track researchers’ engagement with and outputs related to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, a set of global objectives agreed to by all countries the United Nations as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Versus Arthritis: Exploring Research Impact

During the 2023 Symplectic Grant Tracker user day, we heard from Rosina Bevan, Senior Research Analyst, on Versus Arthritis’ approach to research impact and how the team are trialling a new impact capture methodology by making use of the progress reporting forms functionality within Grant Tracker.

University of Oxford: Expertise Profile Search

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.