Citavi

Logo Citavi The University Library provides the students and employees of TUM with the Citavi reference management programme within the frame of a campus licence. Citavi supports your entire research process - from searching for sources to citing and finishing your paper.

Overview

Download & Installation

Support & Help

E-Tutorials

Funktionen

Courses

Download & Installation

Download & Installation
First download the free version of Citavi and install it on your computer.
Citavi Account
To be able to use the full version and work with cloud projects, please register for a Citavi Account with your TUM e-mail address. Authentication with a freemailer address (e.g. web.de, GMX, Gmail) is not possible.
License Key
Open Citavi and click on the login icon in the start window. Enter your access data for your Citavi account. The license information is now automatically recognized.

Terms of Use & Licence Information

The TUM university library offers students, faculty and staff the usage of the full version of Citavi for Windows (desktop version) and Citavi web as part of a campus licence.

Terms of Use

The Citavi licence is limited to a single user. You may install the software on a computer or a network drive.
At the end of your studies or your employment at the TUM, you may not use the full version via the TUM campus licence any longer.

By using Citavi, you agree to the Privacy Police and Terms of Use.

Licence extension for TUM members until 30.09.2026

TUM extended the Citavi licence for for all TUM students and employees. You can transfer the new license data by logging in to your Citavi account. In section Citavi Desktop & Web Bundle click on "Citavi 6 – valid until 2024". To confirm that you are enrolled or working at TUM, request an e-mail to your TUM e-mail address and confirm the link contained. After that you can use Citavi until further notice (or until you leave TUM).
TUM has an up-to-date licence for the web version of Citavi, which allows you to work from anywhere on any operating system.

If you are an IT admin for staff computers, please follow the steps below to transfer the current licence period to the PCs you administer: https://www1.citavi.com/sub/manual6/en/index.html?deploying_with_a_softw...
We will send you the necessary file common.dat6 on request. Please contact us at literaturverwaltung@ub.tum.de.

Funktionen

Citavi is a reference management programme for Microsoft Windows, which supports your entire research process - from searching for sources to citing and finishing your paper.

Additional to classical references management tools Citavi offers functions for knowledge organisation and task planning. An online search feature allows you to search databases and catalogues from within the programme.

With the new web version of Citavi, you are able to create and manage projects regardless of the operating system – Mac OS, Windows or Linux. All you need is an internet connection and a Citavi account.

What does Citavi have to offer?

Reference Management and Knowledge Organization:

Search databases and library catalogs
Analyse your PDFs, excerpt texts
Create categories, add quotations
Write reseach papers, use Citavi's Add-In for Word
Select citations styles
Collaborate and work in teams
Organize your work, project tasks

Find full text search for licensed material

Via the function "Find full text" you can search for sources TUM library has subscribed to. Choose Tools menue and follow the link Options. Choose the tab "RSS / OpenURL" and following URLs:

OpenURL: http://sfx.bib-bvb.de/sfx_tum

EZproxyURL: https://eaccess.tum.edu/login

When using "Find full text" search, after having added the above mentioned link, you will be asked if you wish to "Log in to https://eacces.tum.edu/login". To search for licensed full texts, log in with your TUM ID (TUM e-mail adress + password) and click LogIn. You can then close the login window.
Please remember that there is no guarantee you will be able to find all the scientific articles licensed by TUM. In addition, the search would take considerably longer.

Support & Help

Question on Citavi features? Problems with download and installation of the software?
Citavi and the TUM University Library provides you a wide range of information materials and support service.

Support by Citavi

Directly in the software: quick help via preview function and Citavi manual (press F1 to open it)
FAQ, user forum, manual and more

Support by the University Library

E-mail support via literaturverwaltung@ub.tum.de
Drop-in Session Reference Management: dates under www.ub.tum.de/en/drop-in-session-reference-management-citation
E-learning materials of the e-course: Reference Management with Citavi – Introductory Course

E-Tutorials on Citavi

Courses on Citavi

Citavi – Introductory Course

Reference Management with Citavi

Keep track of your references! In our introductory course, you will learn all the basic features for the effective handling of the programme. We show you how to add, manage and cite literature in Citavi and include them in a complete reference list.

Course Description & Dates

Citavi – Advanced Course

Reference Management with Citavi

Citavi offers more! You are already familiar with Citavi - either from our introductory course or by practical experience with the programme. In the advanced course you will deepen your knowledge of the features with which Citavi supports you in your academic work.

Course Description & Dates

Reference Management and Citation Consultation Service

Are you currently writing your bachelor's, master's or doctoral thesis? Do difficult questions pop-up you can't answer with what you know from our courses or lecture notes? In our reference management and citations consultation service we will try to help you answer these questions.

Course Description & Dates