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Courses on Reference Management

Learn about the most important reference management programs and find out which one suits you best.

These courses are free for members of Freie Universität.

In addition, it may be helpful to attend the training session “How Do I Cite Correctly?” before participating. These course help you handle literature and sources confidently and professionally.

Content

Introduction to and Comparison of Citavi and Zotero.

Allgemeine Hinweise

  • Registration: required, see below
  • Language: English
  • Duration: 15–90 minutes
  • Target group: New students & interested parties
  • Dozierende: Mitarbeitende der Zentralbibliothek
  • Lecturers: Staff at the Central Library

Dates

  •  By appointment for small groups

Registration

Citavi

Citavi, or Citavi Web, is a reference management program that requires a license and is available free of charge to members of Freie Universität Berlin (students, faculty, and staff).

To use the program, you need a computer running the Windows operating system. To take full advantage of its features, we recommend using a laptop or desktop PC.

Content

  • Overview
  • Templates
  • Adding Simple Titles via ISBN/DOI
  • Searching in/from Citavi (in catalogs and databases)
  • Searching in Primo with Import (with and without the Picker)
  • Navigation Bar
  • Overview: Knowledge Organization
  • Working with Word: Inserting a Citation
  • Importing Special Titles (monographs, articles, web documents)
  • Searching in Databases with Import (with and without the Picker)
  • Importing PDFs and Websites
  • Bibliography: Output Options
  • Citation Styles: Differences and Search
  • Cloud Projects, Group Work

General Information

  • Registration: Required, see below
  • Language: English
  • Duration: 90 minutes, the course starts on time
  • Target Group: Students & interested parties
  • Lecturers:Johanna Gröpler, Ilona Praetze
  • Meeting Point:
    • Online: The course will be held via the Cisco Webex platform. Login details will be sent by email one to two days before the event.
    • Face-to-face: Participants will be met in the foyer of the Central Library (Garystr. 39) before the course begins.
  • You are welcome to bring your own laptops with Citavi installed to the in-person sessions

Dates

Zotero

Zotero is a free reference management software and can be used as an alternative to Citavi or EndNote.

To take full advantage of its features, we recommend using a laptop or desktop computer. 

Content

  • Getting to know the program interface
  • Importing various types of references into Zotero
  • Organizing information with notes, tags, and the PDF Reader
  • Inserting citations into text documents (Microsoft Word)
  • Creating bibliographies
  • Using group libraries

General Information

  • Registration: Required, see below
  • Language: English
  • Duration: 90 minutes, the course starts on time
  • Target Group: Students & interested parties
  • Lecturers: Lucia Meidinger, Marc Spieseke
  • Meeting Point:
    • Online: The course will be held via the Cisco Webex platform. Login details will be sent by email one to two days before the event.
    • Face-to-face: Participants will be met in the foyer of the Central Library (Garystr. 39) before the course begins.

Dates

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