Citavi

Citavi

Developer(s)	Swiss Academic Software GmbH
Stable release	3.1.15 / 2011-09-29
Preview release	3.1.18 / 2011-10-24
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Reference management
License	Proprietary
Website	Citavi website

Citavi is a reference management program for Microsoft Windows published by Swiss Academic Software in Wädenswil, Switzerland. Citavi is widespread in Germany^[1] , with site licenses at many German universities,^[2] many of which offer training sessions and settings files for Citavi.^[1]

Versions

Citavi is descended from a reference management program called LiteRat, developed at the Heinrich Heine University in 1995^[3], and considered version 1.0. The first version to bear the Citavi name was released as Citavi 2.^[4] Version 3 was released in November 2010, the first version with a user interface in English^[5] (prior versions were in German only).

Citavi is offered as Citavi Free (no cost, limited to 100 references per project), Citavi Pro (commercial, unlimited solo projects, team projects limited to 100 references), Citavi Team (commercial, no restrictions), and Citavi Reader (commercial, read access to all projects, limited to editing solo projects up to 100 references).

Features

Citavi's core features are reference management, knowledge organization, and task planning. An online search feature lets the user search databases and catalogs from within the program.^[6]

• Reference management with reference types for common sources.^[6][7]
• Management of local files, such as PDFs (including automatic metadata import from PDF).^[8]
• Online search in thousands of databases and library catalogs.^[9][10]
• Publishing in over a thousand citation styles.^[11]
• Integrated citation style editor.
• Works with Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org Writer, and various LaTeX editors.^[6]
• Picker extensions for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Adobe Acrobat and Reader, to facilitate saving sources and quotations.^{[6][1] [12]}
• Automatic import of references by ISBN, DOI name, or PubMed ID.
• Import from other reference management programs and formats, including EndNote, ProCite, and BibTeX.^[13]
• Knowledge organization to collect and organize quotations and thoughts.^[14][15]
• Task planner for scheduling.^[16]

Links

• Official website: citavi.com
• Citavi 3 Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet (PDF)

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Stöhr, Matti (2010). Umlauf, Konrad. ed. "Bibliothekarische Dienstleistungen für Literaturverwaltung: Eine vergleichende Analyse des Angebots wissenschaftlicher Bibliotheken unter besonderer Berücksichtigungn der Nutzerperspektive [Library Services for Reference Management: A comparative analysis of the offerings of scholarly libraries under particular consideration of the user's perspective.]" (in German). Berliner Handreichungen zur Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft (Berlin: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft) (283): 244. ISSN 14387662. http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/series/berliner-handreichungen/2010-283/PDF/283.pdf. Retrieved 11 February 2011. 
2. ^ "Existing Site Licenses". Citavi website. Swiss Academic Software. http://www.citavi.com/en/references/licensees.html. Retrieved 31 January 2011. 
3. ^ Steuber, Hartmut. "LiteRat – Literaturverwaltung (nicht nur) für Erziehungswissenschaftler [LiteRat – Reference Management (not only) for Educators]" (in German). Neuere Projekte. http://www.uni-duesseldorf.de/steuber/projekte.html#literat. Retrieved 11 February 2011. 
4. ^ "About Us". Citavi website. Swiss Academic Software. http://www.citavi.com/en/contact/swiss_academic_software.html. Retrieved 31 January 2011. 
5. ^ Böhner, Dörte. "Viel Neues bei Citavi 3.0 [Plenty of New Things in Citavi 3.0]" (in German). Bibliothekarisch – die berufliche Tätigkeit eines Bibliothekars, einer Bibliothekarin betreffend.. http://bibliothekarisch.de/blog/2010/03/21/viel-neues-bei-citavi-3-0/. Retrieved 11 February 2011. 
6. ^ ^{a b c d} Kerschis, Annett. "Citavi 2.3" (in German). Literaturverwaltung und Wissensorganisation im Vergleich: Das Angebot von Literaturverwaltungsprogrammen und Social Bookmarking in Bezug auf die Benutzbarkeit in Bibliotheken [Reference Management and Knowledge Organization Compared: The Range of Reference Management Programs and Social Bookmarking with Regard to Usability in Libraries]. http://bibliothek.fh-potsdam.de/fileadmin/fhp_bib/dokumente/Kerschis_Dipl.pdf. Retrieved 10 February 2011. 
7. ^ "Reference Editor". Citavi website. Swiss Academic Software. http://www.citavi.com/en/features/reference_editor.html. Retrieved 31 January 2011. 
8. ^ "Full Text Management". Citavi website. Swiss Academic Software. http://www.citavi.com/en/features/full_text.html. Retrieved 31 January 2011. 
9. ^ "Online Search". Citavi website. Swiss Academic Software. http://www.citavi.com/en/features/online_search.html. Retrieved 31 January 2011. 
10. ^ "Citavi becomes WorldCat traffic partner". OCLC. http://www.oclc.org/us/en/news/announcements/2011/announcement7.htm. Retrieved 10 February 2011. 
11. ^ "Publication Assistant". Citavi website. Swiss Academic Software. http://www.citavi.com/en/features/publication_assistant.html. Retrieved 13 September 2011. 
12. ^ "Collecting With the Picker". Citavi website. Swiss Academic Software. http://www.citavi.com/en/features/picker.html. Retrieved 31 January 2011. 
13. ^ Clément, Hubert (2010-12-30). "Citavi 3, un logiciel pour vos citations" (in French). unireflets. Université de Fribourg. http://www.unifr.ch/scm/fr/publications/UR/11/UR02_10_11.pdf. Retrieved 10 February 2011. 
14. ^ "Knowledge Organizer". Citavi website. Swiss Academic Software. http://www.citavi.com/en/features/knowledge_organizer.html. Retrieved 31 January 2011. 
15. ^ "Citavi 3 beta now available, includes outlining (sort of)". OutlinerSoftware.com. http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/2078/0/citavi-3-beta-now-available-includes-outlining-sort-of. Retrieved 14 February 2011. 
16. ^ "Task Planner". Citavi website. Swiss Academic Software. http://www.citavi.com/en/features/task_planner.html. Retrieved 31 January 2011.