Systems and Tools
Find the important tools, systems and databases that are used to conduct, report and manage research activities at UTS.
Available Systems
Manage your research
At UTS, these systems are used for data management of funding applications, ethics approvals, research outputs, research profiles, data storage and more.
- At UTS, ResearchMaster is our system for managing funding applications, ethics approvals, costings and research agreements. Use this tool for all your research project planning and management as well as any HDR candidature management that you undertake.
- Symplectic Elements is your tool for managing your research outputs and profile. It reduces the administrative burden of research while enabling you to access powerful insights. The tool harvests publication data from sources such as Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, RePEc, and SSRN and is used to upload content to OPUS. It also displays outputs on the UTS website and populates research outputs data for My Researcher Dashboard. As a researcher, your Symplectic Elements account is automatically setup when you join UTS. Professional staff need to actively create a profile.
- Stash is the data management platform you use to plan, archive and publish UTS research projects. It helps you manage your research data throughout the life of your project and lets you store associated ethics permissions and data licences to ensure that all the important information about your research data is kept in one place. Stash also allows you to request a research workspace, including storage, from eResearch, and ensures that your Research Data Management Plan complies with relevant research data management guidance.
- A useful tool for group leaders to oversee team research activities, Lab Archives eNotebooks are an electronic version of the traditional paper research notebook. They can be used in the lab as a formal lab notebook, for field work, or simply for keeping track of research. eNotebooks manage IP securely with version tracking and signing and are increasingly replacing hardcopy lab and field notebooks. Any changes and edits are clearly recorded and images and raw data files can be organised into folders. You can share your eNotebook securely with anyone as a secure, portable, and archivable record of research activities.
Discover and be discovered
These online tools will assist you in identifying collaboration opportunities.
- As a UTS staff member your Discovery Profile allows internal and external audiences to search you by name, keywords or disciplines. Using data populated from Symplectic Elements, Discovery Profiles make it quick and easy to have an up-to-date public profile that showcases the breadth of your expertise. Professional staff are encouraged to also create a Discovery Profile.
- A Power BI tool for researcher career development, Collaborator Finder enables you to identify collaboration opportunities and find collaborators based on project and publication details. It helps you discover potential co-investigators for funding based on income categories and search for potential co-authors based on publication data.
