A new URL for Symplectic
Understand the upcoming changes to Symplectic
Changes are coming to Symplectic, to improve usability and to further the University’s commitment to raising research visibility.
How will it affect you?
The University’s URL for Symplectic is changing. From Thursday 1 May 2025 you will need to use the new address of symplectic.leeds.ac.uk.
At 4pm on 29 April, we’ll start the transfer to the new domain making Symplectic temporarily unavailable. We anticipate Symplectic being available again, at the new URL, from 1 May. Users will receive an email when they are able to access the system.
Symplectic will also get the Single Sign On (SSO) functionality from this date, making access smoother and faster.
Why are we making these changes?
Behind the scenes, the software is moving from being hosted by IT on Microsoft Azure to being hosted by the vendor, Digital Science.
The move is part of a Digital Transformation programme (EDCIS – Ensuring Data Compliance, Insights and Sharing) that seeks to secure, develop and improve research information workflows, to ensure high quality consistent data capture and sharing and to meet internal and external compliance requirements; ensuring we have robust, future-proofed capability and service design to deliver current and future research returns.
Moving to the vendor’s cloud-hosted solution is Phase One of EDCIS, aligns with institutional strategy, transfers routine tasks, such as system upgrades from IT to the vendor, and ensures we remain able to take advantage of future system developments.
What is Symplectic?
Symplectic is used by staff and PGR students across the University to record research outputs, impact and professional activities. It is a key system in our REF2029 preparations and is used for research output review.
As well as being a key place to store our data, it supports raising the visibility of our research. Research outputs in Symplectic can link to staff profiles on the University websites. It is also linked to the institutional repository, White Rose Research Online, where open access copies of our research, deposited by University of Leeds authors, are made freely and globally available.
Please email research@library.leeds.ac.uk if you have any questions.
