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.
Browse research databases
These online databases allow for location of multi-disciplinary, peer reviewed literature and associated citation data.
- Overton is the world’s largest collection of policy documents, parliamentary transcripts, government guidance and think tank research. It collects data globally from over 180 countries and in many different languages. Overton indexes documents to make them searchable and maps the connections between them, scholarly research and the news media, giving insight into the evidence and influences that are shaping the world around us.
- A database for locating multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed literature and associated citation data, Web of Science Core Collection contains records of articles from the highest impact journals worldwide—including open access journals— conference proceedings and books. It allows you to explore the deep citation connections in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with a curated collection of more than 21,000 peer-reviewed, high-quality scholarly journals published worldwide.
- Open Publications of UTS Scholars (OPUS) is the UTS open access digital repository, which showcases UTS research excellence to a world-wide audience. OPUS collects, preserves, indexes, and disseminates the research outputs of UTS staff and postgraduate students, providing free global access to the full text of works where possible. Since 2014, the UTS Open Access Policy requires UTS researchers to add their research publications to OPUS to facilitate public access to the University’s research.
- An Elsevier database for locating multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed literature and associated citation data, Scopus uniquely combines a comprehensive abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly literature. You can quickly find relevant and authoritative research, identify experts and access reliable data, metrics and analytical tools. Using precise search and analytical tools, Scopus provides you with the insights to drive better decisions, actions, and outcomes.
