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Introduction to Pivot-RP

Pivot-RP is a comprehensive research funding and collaborator discovery platform that offers powerful tools to search, filter, and customize alerts within an expert-curated catalog of over $100 billion in research funding opportunities. This global database covers a wide range of disciplines, including the arts, humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, medicine, and education, among others. Swarthmore College provides subscription access to Pivot-RP as a grants database to help faculty and staff locate funders whose missions align with their research interests. 

In addition to searching for grants, Pivot-RP allows user to:

  • Discover collaborators: Access over 3 million faculty profiles, across the United States and internationally, to identify potential collaborators at Swarthmore and other institutions.
  • Identify conferences: Search a database to find upcoming conferences and special journal issues where you can publish or present your research.
Getting Started with Pivot-RP

To take full advantage of the platform’s features, such as saving searches and receiving automated alerts, you must create a user account.

  1. Create Your Account: Visit pivot.proquest.com and sign up using your Swarthmore College institutional email address or through Single Sign-On (SSO) credentials.
  2. Claim or Create Your Profile: Pivot-RP automatically generates profiles for many researchers based on publicly available information. When you first log in, you should claim your profile or create a new one to receive customized funding recommendations based on your specific research interests and expertise.
  3. Refine Your Profile: Enhancing your profile with specific keywords, publications, and your ORCID ID will help the platform’s intelligent mapping features provide the most relevant opportunities.
Searching and Automating Results

Pivot-RP is designed to save you valuable time by automating the grant-seeking process.

  • Search Strategies: You can use Basic or Advanced Search options to filter results by sponsor types, project locations, deadlines, and types of grants. Using specific keywords and Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) can help refine your results.
  • Track Opportunities: You can track specific opportunities to receive personal reminders about deadlines and updates when requirements change.
  • Save Searches and Set Alerts: By saving a search query, you can set Pivot-RP to send you automated email notifications (daily or weekly) whenever new funding opportunities that match your criteria are added to the database.
Pivot-RP Help and Resources

For further guidance, you may consult the following resources provided by Pivot-RP:

For personalized and ongoing assistance, please contact Stephen Robishaw (Assistant Director, Proposal Development) in the Sponsored Programs office.