Setting Up Your Account and Claiming Your Profile
If you do not have a Pivot-RP account, go to https://pivot.proquest.com , select the Create account link, and follow the on-screen instructions. You must select an affiliated member institution from the list on the page and specify a valid email address for that institution.
After submitting your information, Pivot-RP sends you an email message with a verification URL. Select the URL to confirm your registration and log in.
Signing In and Out of Pivot-RP
After you create an account and sign in for the first time, Pivot-RP automatically searches for your profile and prompts you to claim your profile. You can do this now or later, more details on this can be found on the Profiles help pages.
To sign in to Pivot-RP:
- Enter the following URL in a browser: https://pivot.proquest.com.
- Enter your institutional email address and password in the login pane, and select Sign In.
- If your institution uses Single Sign, you can select your institution from the from down list and log in that way.
To sign out:
Select Sign out in the user menu at the top of the page. If you are inactive for more than an hour, you are automatically signed out of Pivot-RP.
Forgotten your password? You can reset that using the forgotten password link.
Managing Your Account
After you have created an account, you can update its information or delete it. You can change your user ID, institution, and password. The option to change your institution appears only if your account is affiliated with more than one institution that subscribes to Pivot-RP.
To change your account information, select Change account info in the user menu. The Change Account Information page appears.
Deleting Your Account
You must consent for Pivot-RP to collect and use your personal information according to Pivot-RP's privacy policy and terms of use to maintain an account with Pivot-RP.
To delete your account, clear your confirmation of this consent on the Change Account Information page. The consent dialog box appears. Select No, I do not consent to delete your account. This action is not reversible.
Setting Your Preferences
From the Manage Preferences page in User Menu > My Preferences, users can configure personal settings for search, alerts, and proxies.
Search Settings
On the Search tab, you can change whether your funding opportunity searches use the institution's defined search filters by default (you can always clear these filters when performing an advanced search).
Alert Settings
On the Alerts tab, you can configure the following preferences:
- Whether deadline reminders are sent as announcements or by email, and when, as well as whether to enable alerts from the Advisor.
- For more relevant weekly advisor recommendations, you may select one or more of the following career stages: Early Career and Emerging in Field, Graduate Student or Pre-doc, Mid-Career to Established in Field, Undergraduate Student, and Not Applicable. If you select one or more options, then only funding opportunities with the selected career stages are included in your weekly advisor recommendations. If you select no filters, then all career stages are by default included in your weekly Advisor Alerts.
- Keywords – Recommendations are heavily influenced by the keywords on your profile. You can visit your Profile page and select 'Edit Profile' to add or modify keywords.
- Filters – On the Advisor Alert page you can select filters on the left side to narrow your results to only show opportunities that include the specific filter criteria selected. These filter preferences are automatically saved and used for your next weekly advisor alert. From the Advisor Alert page, you can always clear filters to expand your results.
Proxies Settings
You can add and remove proxies that can edit your profile. To manage your profile proxies, select My Preferences in the user menu and select the Proxies tab.
To add a proxy, select Add a Proxy, enter all or part of the Last Name and select their Affiliation, and select Search. Select add in the line of the user that you want to add as proxy.
To delete a proxy, select remove in the line of the user and select Yes in the confirmation dialog box.