Citavi & Zotero - organize your bibliography

• Citavi Trial is a test version for free. The trial version is available for Citavi for Windows and for Citavi Web. You can try out Citavi for 30 days. After that you have to set up an account and switch to the full version.
• Citavi for Windows is the desktop version and optimized for Windows. The library has licensed Citavi Windows. Therefore all university members can use Citavi for Windows for free. You can register for Citavi for Window via the Citavi homepage. If you use a Mac, please see the installation instructions in the manual.
• Citavi Web has been released in June 2021 and allows you to work from everywhere as long as you have internet access. It works with every operating system, like Mac OS, Windows or Linux. The library has not yet subscribed to this version. You can find more information about Citavi Web on the Citavi homepage.

In order to install Citavi you need to have administrator rights. Therefore installation on university computers should be made by your system administrator.

In order to install Citavi on your private computer, please proceed as follows:

Download
First download and install the current version of Citavi: http://www.citavi.com/en/download.

For further information how to use Citavi check the user’s manual.

Your Citavi account
You can create an account when opening Citavi. Your university email is needed for authentication purposes, e.g. johndoe@stud.fra-uas.de.

Citavi test version is then converted into Citavi for Windows for the duration of our university license.

Please note: For authentication purposes your university email is needed, e.g. johndoe@stud.fra-uas.de. Setting up an account with a freemail address is not possible. Students can retrieve their mails via https://webmail.frankfurt-university.de/. The first part in front of the @-symbol is your user name. Your password is the same as in your IT user login.

There is no separate Mac version for the reference management software Citavi. The only workaround is using third-party software which let you run a real copy of Windows on your Mac.

For more information check the Citavi Manual.

The campus license agreement for Citavi includes 5 GB of personal cloud storage space. In case you need more cloud storage space you have to pay for it.

If you received an email that your storage space was used up or close to being used up check the information in the manual first.

If you are interested in an introduction to Citavi, please e-mail us: literaturverwaltung(at)bibl.fra-uas.de.

In addition to our courses we provide a course in CampUAS containing videos and exercises.

• Citavi 6

Faculty members can register without password.

Our CampUAS course is in German only.

If you are interested in introductory courses in english please contact us via citavi(at)bibl.fra-uas.remove-this.de.

• Knowledge Base & Support
• Citavi 6 Manual
• Citavi in a nutshell