Flagship products: RefWorks and Pivot

Research Management

Writing & Collaboration Information literacy

Discoverability

3 million users in +1,200 academic, medical & govt.

libraries

Superior

User training

& support

Librarians

Students

Researchers

Faculty

Web-based Research Management Tool designed for bibliographic references.

Allows for formatting bibliographies and manuscripts in seconds.

RefWorks - Benefits

• Unlimited organization wide access

• Web based - Easy to implement, automatically updated, with one interface that fits both the needs of novice and advanced users.

• Promotes information literacy, where saved references link out to your existing database subscriptions.

• Import references automatically from multiple databases.

• Allows for easy sharing of data with colleagues or other researchers both in & outside your institution (RefShare).

• Ability to attach files to references, RefShare, and Write-n-Cite at no additional cost.

• Compatibility with most resources in the library! And compatible with languages that use non-Roman alphabets

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Flagship products: RefWorks and Pivot

Unrivaled in size!$ 33 Billion

Funding Opps

Matches funding opportunities

with scholar profiles

Superior User training

& support

Research Admins Researchers

Graduate students

Web-based research management tool that helps to quickly discover the right funding

opportunities and effectively collaborate with colleagues in & outside your institution.

Pivot – Breadth of Database

Pivot for VU/VUmc 18-sept-2012 4

+26,000

Funding

Opportunities

+ 3 million

Researcher

Profiles

Total $ 33 billion Funding+ 11,500Sponsors

1 2 3 GlobalSpread

• Global• Continent• Trade zone (EU)• Country

• Prof. Association• Non-Profit• Private foundation• Government• Academic• Corporate• Multinational

Pivot - Benefits

• Provides access to the most comprehensive source of funding opportunities globally

• Identifies researcher expertise from within or outside of your organization

• Via its matching algorithm Pivot recommends funding to specific scholars, rather than the entire institution

• Enhances communication, monitoring, and tracking amongst individual faculty, teams, or researchers and the Research Development office

• Significant workflow enhancements (tools) which let you know the outcome of your sharing activities

• Allows the focus to be on winning the necessary awards and grants

• Enables you to add internal deadlines to critical funding opportunities and sends weekly updates on saved searches you organize in your own folders

• Editorially managed content for validation and consistency

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