Citavi

Overview

Citavi is a software for literature management and knowledge organization which additionally supports you when writing scientific texts and with project management.

The program offers these funcions:

• Record literature data manually and automated.
• Searching library catalogues and partly literature databases.
• Explore and organize literature thematically.
• Collect and index exzerpts, notes, citations, own thoughts sophisticatedly.
• Integrate, view and edit pdf-files.
• Integrate citations and literature references in a desired citation style.
• Automatically create a literature list.

 Please note:

• Refrain from using the Citavi Cloud for saving.
  The connection to the Citavi Cloud cannot be technically disabled. Therefore, please note that the Citavi Cloud is not suitable for storing sensitive data. In particular, research data and personal data must not be stored in the Citavi Cloud. Detailed tips can be found in the BibBlog as well as in the guide for safe and data protection-compliant handling of Citavi (in german language).
• How to save projects outside the Citavi Cloud is described in the following short tutorials (in german language only):
  - Speichern von Projekten außerhalb der Cloud (Text)
  - Speichern von Projekten außerhalb der Cloud (Screencast)

Download, installation and licensing (campus license)

Citavi is a windows-based system. As a member of Siegen University you can get a full licence for Citavi.

For using the campus license you have to perform the following steps:

1. Install Citavi in der version Citavi 6, if you haven't done so already. Users of LibreOffice or OpenOffice have to choose the version 5 (here: Citavi 5.7).
2. Then choose the name of your university on this list. You will reach a form, where you can register for a Citavi account. Follow the instructions.
3. Then open Citavi. You are prompted for a login. If not: Choose the login symbol in the start window.
4. Enter your Citavi account information. Citavi gets the license information from your account and transfers it automatically.

Information for licensing Citavi 5 can be found here.

Information for extending the licence can be found here.

Courses, eLearning, consultancy

 

Courses

• Training courses offered by the library

eLearning

• Citavi support pages
• Citavi tips in the BibBlog of Siegen University Library

• Help texts Citavi
• Video tutorials

 

Consultancy

With questions to Citavi contact literaturverwaltung@ub.uni-siegen.de or the mentioned contact persons.

• Citavi consulting hour
• Company support Citavi

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