Reference Management Software Citavi

To register

1. Go to https://www.citavi.com/login and click on "Sign up now" - do not click on the "Continue with University" button (this currently does not work for registration).
2. Enter your Uni e-mail address.
3. Confirm account and set password.
4. Log in to the account by going back to https://www.citavi.com/login - do not click on the "Continue with University" button.
   If the Citavi Web launcher window opens, click on the button with the three horizontal dots in the upper right corner and select "Citavi Account".
5. In the next window, click on "Log in with:" in the right column and select the "My University" button. Enter ?Technische Universität Dortmund? and then log in with your UniAccount via Shibboleth. This will add the Shibboleth access to the account and activate the Citavi license.

For login

Use the registration form and click the "Continue with university" button. You will be redirected to the campus license selection, type in "Technische Universität Dortmund" and select it. In the next step you have to log in with your UniAccount. You can use the university licence for the duration of your TU Dortmund membership. The membership requests to be authenticated once a year.

For all TU Dortmund members who use an operating system other than Microsoft Windows or who work with cloud projects. Simply follow the steps below:

• log in using "Continue with university" on the Citavi login page: select Technische Universität Dortmund and sign in with your UniAccount
• to access Citavi Web, click the three dots in the top-right corner. Your cloud projects will be displayed here, or you can create a new one.

• download the Citavi 6 setup.
• uninstall older versions. Your projects and settings remain unaffected.
• install Citavi 6.
• start Citavi 6 and log in with your Citavi account.
• the login legitimates you to use the University licence and allows you to save projects in the cloud storage.
• when you save projects in the Citavi cloud, please note the privacy statements from Swiss Academic Software GmbH.
• Citavi 6 does only support working with Microsoft Word and TeX editors. If you want to work with LibreOffice or OpenOffice do not upgrade to Citavi 6 and use Citavi 5 instead. Create a licence key in your Citavi account to use the University Site Licence.

The course provides a basic overview of the program and is suitable for people with little or no knowledge of Citavi. You will learn to collect literature and create a bibliography as well as create citations and how to use the Word add-in.

If you need an individual or subject-oriented training or a course in English, please contact us.

Would you like to get an overview of different reference management software? The reference management software comparison of the University Library of the Technical University of Munich offers an overview of some of the common reference management programs. Both free and licensed programs for Windows, Mac and Linux were considered. The comparison is published under a Creative Commons license.