Citavi is a Windows-based software for reference management with extensive tools for knowledge organization.
The Citavi campus licence has been extended until 31st August 2027 and is funded by the IT Service Centre. Due to the change of the licensing model in July 2021, having a licence is mandatory to open projects.
Zotero is a free open source reference management tool, which helps to keep track of researched and assessed literature when writing scientific theses.
Zotero also facilitates citing considerably.
It can be used for the operating systems Windows, Mac OS and Linux and is also suitable for collaborative projects.
Reference management with Citavi
Citavi helps you to:
- create bibliographies and add citations to your thesis
- import search results from library catalogues and specialized databases that have been saved as a text file or in the clipboard
- use the browser add-on Citavi Picker program to evaluate websites and text documents for bibliographic information, graphics and text sections, URLs and screenshots and add them to your personal Citavi libary;
to copy the ISBN or highlight text and search in library catalogues and databases
- update references by adding abstracts, citations, own thoughts, notes, keywords and comments
- and much more.
Get Citavi
If you leave the University of Bayreuth before the licence expires, you can continue to use Citavi until the end of the licensing period.
Citavi courses
The University Library regularly holds German introductions to
Citavi.
Additionally we also offer English introductions to the reference management software Citavi. You can find dates and information in our Moodle course
Zotero and Citavi - English introductions.
If you want to request an introduction in English at another date, please contact us via email.
E-Mail-Support
You can always contact us via email:
Email the Library's Citavi Support Team
Reference management with Zotero
Zotero is a free open source alternative to Citavi. Additionally, it runs on Windows as well as other operating system (Mac, Linux).
Get Zotero
Download the programme here:
https://www.zotero.org/download/. Set up the Zotero Connector (browser add-on) available under the same link.
Zotero courses
In our introduction to working with Zotero we give an overview over the functions of this reference management tool and show you how to work with it when writing your thesis.
You will learn how to include bibliographic information in Zotero and what options there are for using those in bibliographies and as references in papers.
Please register for our German Zotero courses on the e-learning plattform Moodle.
Additionally we also offer English introductions to the reference management software Zotero. You can find dates and information in our Moodle course Zotero and Citavi - English introductions.
If you want to request an introduction in English at another date, please contact us via e-mail.
Individual Zotero Consultation
Addtionally to the workshops on Zotero, Bayreuth University Library also offers you individual consultations on Zotero. You can schedule a date and we will go through your Zotero questions in either an online meeting or in person in the library. Click the MS-Teams symbol down below to book one of the offered dates.
None of the dates below suit you?
Feel free to mail us your suggestions for dates:
Email the Library's Zotero Support Team
E-Mail-Support
You can always contact us via email:
Email the Library's Zotero Support Team