It has just been pointed out to me that there is a difference between a publications management system that deals with published papers, as Symplectic does by looking for them in Web of Science and other databases, and a CRIS which records the entire research process with grants, funding, staffing information etc from the very start.
Note that Symplectic don't explicitly claim to be a CRIS and I'm not clear that they comply with CERIF or are associated with EuroCRIS in any way. Happy to stand corrected as necessary.
Note that my comments are in no way intended as a criticism of Symplectic, whose system is very impressive. In fact I don't know whether CRIS systems can interface as well as this with online databases such as Web of Science.
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