Introducing Symplectic Elements

Nick Sheppard – Repository Developer

James Fisher – Information Services Librarian

repository@leedsmet.ac.uk

Research Management at Leeds Met• Lack of a centralised system• What is the repository for?

• Full-text research outputs (Open Access to research)• Bibliographic database• Carnegie current totals (22/02/12):

• 876 records • Of which 96 include full text

• Fully mediated via the library• No links to other systems (e.g. iTrent)• Makes it difficult to re-use data (e.g. Staff profiles)

Symplectic Elements• LDAP authentication for all academic staff • Manage own research profile (if you want!)• Automatically retrieve bibliographic data from citation databases• Web of Knowledge / PubMed Central / (Scopus?)• Notified by email when new publication retrieved• Easily import data from existing records (e.g. EndNote)• Reuse data to populate dynamic bibliographies on staff webpages• Nominate outputs for the REF• Deposit full-text to the repository with a single click• Will NOT impact on established faculty process• WILL allow you to take greater ownership of your own research

profile

Potential data source(require subscription)

Primary data source

Database of Leeds Met research

LDAP authentication for all academic staff to manage research

profile.

Link to repository to deposit full-text

research outputs (where permitted by

copyright.)

Nominate REF submissions

Comprehensive reporting (individual / faculty / institution)

Full text only?

Research Excellence Framework 2014

REF Case Studies(Linked to relevant research / OER)

(eTheses)

Linked to relevant research

Full text + metadata

Primary data source

One click deposit to repository

Feed dynamic bibliographies to staff /

faculty / research centre web-pages

University Research Office / Faculty Admin / LLI / Repository team

Import of existing EndNote libraries

Manual data entry

Links• Symplectic - https://symplectic-web.leedsmet.ac.uk/• Carlton Cooke (with manually added links):

• http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/carnegie/05C2C8BFDC6F4BF194160B3666B5362E.htm

• Staff profile pages populated from Symplectic:• http://www.keele.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/sallin/• http

://www1.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/people/neil.ferguson/publications/

How to make your work Open Access through the Leeds Met repository• Prepare paper & submit to journal of choice for peer review• Make changes required as a result of peer review process• Submit final version to the journal• Deposit that same final version to Sam Armitage in the University

Research Office • A bibliographic record of your research output will then be added

to the repository• Sam will liaise with the repository team and check journal

copyright conditions on your behalf• If permitted under copyright, the full text will be added to the

record and made live in accordance with any publisher restrictions

Open Access• Open dissemination?• Immediate• Free (to use)• Free (of restrictions)• Access to the peer-reviewed literature (and data)• Not vanity publishing• Not a ‘stick anything up on the Web’ approach• Moving scholarly communication into the Web Age

Why Open Access?• Greater impact from scientific endeavour• More rapid and more efficient progress of science• Novel information-creation using new and advanced

technologies• Better assessment, better monitoring, better

management of science

Science and scholarship are cumulative. Open Access can Accelerate their pace by allowing new connections – big or small – to be made faster SPARC

2010

Open Access: Who benefits?• Researchers• Institutions• National economies• Science and society

The Leeds Met repository provides...• The means to disseminate your work to the world• Secure storage (for completed work and for work-in-

progress)• A location for supporting data that are unpublished• One-input-many outputs (CVs, publications)• Tool for research assessment (REF)• Personal marketing tool• The route to maximal visibility and impact for your

work

Repositories… “are vital to universities’ economies and to the UK economy as a whole.” 

Professor J Drummond BonePast President, Universities UK

2010 in numbers• Total number of records = 790• Number of full text = 196• 8,656 absolute unique visitors• 53,663 pageviews• Total of 11,385 visits from 121 countries