Adding items to Symplectic - with help

Log into Symplectic here

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 on this page, it's good to look at the Tidying your Symplectic Record page. 

Members of the Faculty's research admin team are able to help with adding publications into Symplectic. 

Please send an email to lawsymp@law.ox.ac.uk  

You will need the following information for each publication:

1. The full citation of the publication (or as much info as you have on it). Please also send me the date of acceptance if the publication has been submitted to a journal.
    
2. Type of publication, according to the following options:
   1. Journal article
   2. Review
   3. Case note
   4. Report
   5. Conference paper
   6. Working paper
   7. Preprint
   8. Book
   9. Edited book
   10. Book chapter
   11. Editorial comment
   12. Internet publication or blog post
   13. Audio/visual media
   14. Presentation
   15. Dataset
   16. Other

3. In terms of publication deposit for Symplectic, we are only uploading these types at the moment (subject to change when the new REF guidelines come out later this year):

• Journal articles (including case notes or similar article subtypes that appear in journal-style publications):
  • Author accepted manuscript (the final version accepted for publication after peer review and corrections, but prior to the publisher's formatting).
  • The published version of a journal article where Gold Access has been purchased or where the journal is open access.
• Conference papers (in publications with an ISSN)
  • Author accepted manuscript (the final version accepted for publication after peer review and corrections, but prior to the publisher's formatting).
  • The published version of a conference paper where Gold Access has been purchased or where the journal is open access.
• Other publication types that do not fit into the above – these can be uploaded if you wish.

Also, to bear in mind, that some funders have their own regulations about which publication types need to be open access (e.g. UKRI and Wellcome). 

If any of this is unclear, more information can be found here: Open Access | Faculty of Law (ox.ac.uk).

When sending/uploading documents to Symplectic, filenames should only contain alphanumeric characters (i.e. avoid hyphens, apostrophes, or accents).