1. Yannis Gkanatsios Area Sales Manager, Mediterranean ProQuest / RefWorks-COS

2. Who uses Pivot? – User profile “Designed by researchers for researchers” • Researchers Administrators • Monitor and improve the research workflow • Support your institutions researchers • Researchers • Focus on winning awards and grants and finding collaborators. • From rising stars up to top researchers

3. Who uses Pivot? – We now have over 350 customers worldwide • +40% top 200 universities globally subscribe to Pivot

4. Why Pivot? – Breadth of Database + 11,500 Sponsors 1 2 Total $ 33 billion Funding Global Spread 3 + 3 million Researcher Profiles +26,000 Funding Opportunities • Prof. Association • Non-Profit • Private foundation • Government • Academic • Corporate • Multinational • Global • Continent • Trade zone (EU) • Country

5. Pivot in Numbers Funding Opportunities Activity location – Italy: over 550 opportunities Including unrestricted opportunities: over 5,700 Italian scholar profiles already available: over 71,000 For Collaboration UK scholar profiles: over 180,000 European scholar profiles: over 770,000 US scholar profiles: over 1.5 million

6. Pivot – Types of funding opportunities • 23% Research • 19% Training, Scholarship, Fellowship • 14,9% Prize or Award • 14,3% Program, Curriculum development or Provision • 4,3% Meeting, Conference, Seminar • 4,1% Visiting personnel • 3,5% Travel • 3,2% Collaboration or Cooperative agreement • 2,6% Postdoctoral award • 2,3% Equipment, Materials acquisition or Facility use • 1,8% Contract or Tender • 1,2% Dissertation or Thesis • 1,1% Facility construction or operation • 0.9% Publishing or editorial • Editorial processes are applied to content for validation and consistency

7. Benefits of using Pivot • Easy searching of thousands of funding opportunities and profiles: • Collaborators can be found by subject or affiliation • Collaborators for particular funding opportunities suggested • Institutional filters remove irrelevant opportunities • Funding opportunity information stored in one place – saves time • Shared opportunities are stored in Pivot • Active and tracked opportunities help with organising the workflow • Over 11,500 sponsors included in Pivot – all searchable at once • Researcher information in Pivot raises profile of academic research at your university • Easily updated by scholar or research administrators • Visible to other Pivot subscribers for collaboration requests

8. Why Pivot? – Matching algorithm for profiles, Links researchers to the right funding! Identifies expertise within or outside your institution Funding advisor: Recommend funding for specific scholars 1 2 Pivot for VU/VUmc 18-sept-2012

9. Research profiles content sources 1 Online sources 2 Manually entered data • Scholar supplied information • Updated within 8-10 days • Editorial processes are applied to all content for validation and consistency • University / Researcher’s websites • Content from over 70 ProQuest-proprietary databases mined for author publications back to 1990 • ERIC dating back to 1990 | PubMed – dating back to 1956 • Indexed information found in publically available sites • Annually updated Pivot for VU/VUmc 18-sept-2012