Adding items to Symplectic - doing it yourself

Log in to Symplectic ElementsIntroduction to Symplectic (PDF)

Symplectic is used in three processes for members of the Law Faculty:

• to upload publications to your public profile page on the Faculty website
• to upload items to the Oxford Research Archive, to meet Open Access compliance rules - important to some research funders
• to manage the publications that we submit for the Research Excellence Framework exercise - the REF, in both 2021 and in 2029.

Before you start following the instructions in the video on this page, it's good to look at the Tidying your Symplectic Record page. 

Note that in the video there is reference to the Oxford Research Archive (ORA) rather than Symplectic.

ORA is the public facing view of the database. Symplectic Elements is the full name of the system used to enter new records and upload files. This is often referred to simply as Symplectic, but sometimes also sometimes just as Elements.

And one final point before watching the video - 

If you follow the process in the video you only have the option to create a record for a journal article or a conference paper. However a record for ANY type of publication can be added to Symplectic. 

In the image below, use the "ADD NEW" button at the foot of your homepage rather than the "Deposit accepted research outputs" button at the top.