Instructions for Pivot Reviewer finding feature for PLOS editors Pivot is a system originally designed to connect researchers to funding opportunities, meaning it has a broad database of researchers and their specific expertise and fields of interest, as well as previous publications. Editorial Manager (our submission system) makes use of this database to locate researchers in the same field as our manuscripts. This tool is useful for times when the usual group of reviewers for a particular field have been exhausted, or the editor is unfamiliar with current experts in a specific subject. Instructions: 1. On the Invite Reviewers page, under the Reviewer Search tab, select Reviewer Discovery from pivot ProQuest Community of Scholars (in red box below). 1 2. Click Go (in red box below) to launch the search, which will give you a green loading message. 3. The next page returns a list of reviewer candidates from the ProQuest database based on the title, classifications, keywords and abstract of the manuscript. Basic metadata about the scholars are returned, as well as matching keywords. (Columns include: Reviewer Name; Board Member; Classifications; Reviewer Statistics (Agreed Invitations); Invitation Statistics.) 4. To the right is a link to View Researcher Profile and Publications (in red box below). Clicking this will bring up a new window containing the scholar’s articles, book chapters, grants, conference papers, abstracts and a basic CV as listed in Pivot. 2 3 5. After closing the researcher profile, each potential reviewer can be selected to be invited or as an alternate, much like the regular method of searching for reviewers. 6. A pop up in red will notify you that the scholar will be proxy-registered in EM once you proceed (above, left). Clicking Proceed will bring up a green box as this process is completed. If the profiles have previously been proxy registered, text above the name will certify it as a Confirmed EM Match, and red text below give the date stamp of when they were proxy registered (below). If the reviewer has a potential EM match (they may have been previously registered in the system), a second row beneath the “Information from Reviewer Discovery” will display the “Possible EM Match” profile. 7. Once this is done, you are taken to the normal letters screen, where the specific invitation can be selected and customized as needed, or you can use the Change Selections button to return to the search function. 4 5