Symplectic Release Pioneering New Impact Module - Digital Science

"Enabling institutions to record the impact of their academic research, while empowering researchers to demonstrate the evidence of these impacts, has always been a challenge. Evidence of impact is often laborious to find, collect and store, and often kept in disparate systems across an institution. That’s why Symplectic have been working hard over the last twelve months in order to solve this problem in their latest release of Elements (version 4.17). This week the team are thrilled to have launched their Impact Module – an easy method for not only capturing evidence of impact but, a tool to help write a narrative that explains the relevance and context of this evidence. In the module, recording of impact is based on qualitative, rather than quantitative, methods – it is designed so that researchers can demonstrate evidence not with metrics, but with narratives. As well as narratives – brief or extensive – the module captures evidence such as documents and weblinks. The key benefit is that evidence can be built over time, rather than looking back and writing retrospectively ..."