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Information Retrieval Services (IVS-BM)

Citavi

 

Citavi

Short notes


Description Citavi is a feature-rich reference management program for Microsoft Windows. It is widespread in Germany.
Producer Swiss Academic Software

www.citavi.com

Present Version Citavi 3.1.15
Availability
  • Citavi Free, Citavi Pro and Citavi Team as commercial license
  • Platform: Windows Server 2003 / 2008, Windows XP / Vista / 7
  • Word Processor: Publication assistant for all programms that support the RTF format, e.g. Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org and several LaTeX editors ➩ version independent
  • Language: English, German
  • Usage: desktop based, single user
  • Limit: Citavi Free is limited to max. 100 references per project with max. 5 projects, Citavi Team has no restrictions



Documentation


Additional Information
  • To implement Open URL for finding full text via the MPG-SFX-Service, open the tab Tools, go to Options and choose the tab Open URL. Here you can fill in the adress for the MPG-SFX-Service http://sfx.mpg.de/sfx_local
  • Picker extensions for IE, Mozilla Firefox version 4.x and Adobe Acrobat and Reader to facilitate saving of sources and quotations
  • Citavi can be installed on an USB stick (1GB is recommended)
  • Implementation of media files possible
What we like
  • Management of local files
  • Automatic import of references by ISBN, DOI name or PubMed ID
  • "Publication Assistant" for inserting and formatting citations and bibliographies
  • Each menue item goes along with detailled assistance
  • Knowledge organization to collect and organize quotations and thoughts
  • Task planner for scheduling
What we miss
  • Missing metadata must be amended manually
  • Output styles can not be changed directly in word processing software

If  you agree / disagree with what we like and miss, your comments and suggestions are welcome - please contact us!


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