Pivot--Claiming or Creating Your Profile

Researchers have a profile, which is a user identity associated with publications and funding opportunities. Researchers who claim their profile receive automated funding recommendations based on the content and preferences in your profile. After you configure your profile, you are able to get personalized funding recommendations targeted to your research interests. For more information about profiles, see Pivot-RP Profiles.

It is expected that Pivot-RP users will also have profiles. The benefits to having a profile are:

  • Managing information – Ensuring that the information associated with your research publications and funding opportunities is accurate and up-to-date.
  • Advisor recommendations – These are based on your profile keywords.

If you are an administrator, you can claim or create a profile for another user. See Claiming Profiles.

To claim a profile:

After you create an account and log in for the first time, Pivot-RP automatically searches for your profile and prompts you to claim your profile. If you do not claim a profile when creating your account, you can do so at a later time, by following the procedure below.

  1. Select Claim profile in the user menu. Pivot-RP displays a list of potentially matching profiles based on your account information, if it can find any.
  2. If you see the correct profile, select This is me in the profile row.
    • If the email on the profile you are claiming matches the email on your Pivot-RP account, Pivot-RP sends a confirmation with a verification URL to your email. Open the verification URL to claim the profile.
    • Otherwise, Pivot-RP asks you to confirm that you still have access to one of the email addresses in the profile before sending the message.
    • If you do not have access to one of the emails in the profile, select this. Pivot-RP displays a form to request access to the selected profile. The information you submit is reviewed by Ex Libris. Once validated, Ex Libris updates the profile and sends you the message with the verification URL.

To create a profile:

  1. Select Claim profile in the user menu. Pivot-RP displays a list of potentially matching profiles based on your account information if it can find any.
  2. Select Create Your Profile and select Continue in the confirmation dialog box. The Create Your Profile page appears.

Create Your Profile

  1. Follow the on-screen steps to create your profile. When you are done, select Return to Pivot. The current tab/window closes and Pivot-RP refreshes, displaying your new profile.

New Profile

To update your profile, see Updating Your Profile. In particular, you may want to add:

  • Keywords. Pivot-RP's Advisor can only suggest funding opportunities if you have at least one keyword defined.
  • Your publications, grants, and patents.
  • A profile photo.
  • Integrate your account with ORCID® (Open Researcher and Contributor ID). 
  • Proxies to manage your profile.


Page last modified August 8, 2021