Using Pivot

• Fill out all fields on the Pivot account page.
• Your Indiana University email address will be your user ID.
• Click "create my account" to receive a confirmation email.
• Open confirmation email, click on "confirm" link.
• You may be asked to select your specific campus affiliation when you log in for the first time.

Note: If you were previously registered as a Community of Science user, you may already have an account

• After logging in, look for your name at the upper right of the screen.
• If your name is hyperlinked, you already have a Pivot Profile based on your research track record. Click on your name to view, update, and edit your profile.
• If your name is not hyperlinked and you see an option to “claim profile,” click on “claim profile” and if you see yourself listed, click on the “This is me” button. You may also look for your name under “select a scholar” on the lower left.

Note: You can search, save searches and track opportunities without a profile.

• Run your search, then click "save search" at the top of the search results page.
• Name your search, then choose whether or not to have new or updated opportunities emailed to you in a weekly alert.
• Find your saved funding searches . They are also on the home tab under "Saved searches."
• View new results for a saved search by clicking on its name.
• To edit an existing search, click on "options," next to its name, then "edit." Make your changes, click "Search" to run it again, then "Save Search" to save your refined search.
• To subscribe to or cancel a funding alert based on a saved search, click on "options" next to the search name and use the drop-menu to select "Alert email on." Or "Alert email off."

• View the record of the funding opportunity you want to track and click “Track” in the Tools box on the upper right screen.
• Select “Set to Active” if it is an important opportunity that you want to appear on your home screen.
• Assign a tag (one-word descriptor) or multiple tags to organize your tracked records.

• The shared tab on the Pivot home page keeps track of opportunities and saved search queries that colleagues or your research office has shared with you, as well as opportunities and saved search queries that you have chosen to share with others.
• Each shared listing includes a Contact Card about the sender, a link to the opportunity by its title, an icon that links to the abstract for the opportunity, the opportunity’s next deadline and the date the opportunity was shared with you.
• Send or receive messages from colleagues by clicking on the Contact Card.
• Under "Take Action," you can choose to track, make an opportunity active, or dismiss and remove it.