Reference Management
Our campus license Citavi
Bielefeld University Library offers free use of the reference management software Citavi to all members of the university (campus licence since 2008). This service includes general and subject-specific tuitions and consulting services for the use of the software.
The Citavi campus licence of Bielefeld University has been extended again by 2 years until 31 March 2025.
- What can I do by using Citavi?
- Automatically fill in book or article data (e.g. by entering the ISBN)
- Collect and organise references and enhance them with abstracts, keywords and comments
- Import search results from databases and references from other programmes
- Automatically create reference lists (with selectable citation styles)
- Collect important citations and ideas for a research paper
- Schedule tasks at hand by deadlines, significance and state of study
- Search for citations via comfortable plugin directly in Word with immediate embedding. Short title records and a reference list are immediately displayed in the corresponding citation style
- Edit literature projects in a team (cloud function)
Download / Personal License Key
Step 1: Download and install Citavi Free
Step 2: Create personal Citavi Account
Please register for a Citavi account. When you sign-up it is necessary to authenticate as member of Bielefeld University using your university mail address (@uni-bielefeld.de).
Citavi Web
Citavi Web is not included in the campus license. If you want to use Citavi Web, you have to license it privately after the trial period. There is no free option to use Citavi Web through the university library.
Storage in the Cloud
The Windows version allows you to store your data locally and in the cloud. When storing in the cloud, the library explicitly states that only non-critical data may be stored, as only the provider has data authority in this regard. For critical data, the data must be stored locally or on a university drive. Therefore, it is up to the Citavi project management to influence the Citavi project participants to keep critical data away from Citavi or to remove it if it has been stored there after all.
Zotero
Zotero is an open source reference management programme that runs on all common operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS) and can be connected to Word, Libre Office and Google Docs. Its use is not linked to a licence, i.e. Zotero can continue to be used after the end of your studies or if you change universities. We also offer training courses for literature management with Zotero.
- Training courses on literature management with Zotero (in German only)
- Instructions for using Zotero with the university cloud Sciebo (PDF, in German only)
- Zotero Download / Documentation