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Posted by rg_software
Nov 17, 2011 at 08:45 AM
Glen Coulthard wrote:
>buggy, the UI sluggish, and the feature-set limited. Last month, I moved to Citavi 3
>and haven’t looked back. If you like Biblioscape, you’ll love Citavi. It is a very
After your post I tried to evaluate Citavi, but there is one thing I don’t understand there: the workflow.
As I see, all references related to my current writing should appear in a separate “project”. Then all the project references are exported as bibliography.
Suppose I’m starting a new project. Naturally, I have many overlapping references. Should I somehow export them from my previous project and insert into the new one??
For me, this philosophy doesn’t look natural. Biblioscape & EndNote simply insert the references you actually cited in your writing as bibliography, which is good, since you
1) can keep all your references for all your works in the same place; 2) don’t have to check manually that all the references are actually cited.
P.S. For me, Biblioscape 9 looks as a way to go (Biblioscape 8 had no unicode support, and 9 beta was truly buggy); the only thing which I don’t like at all is their licensing approach.
Posted by Glen Coulthard
Nov 17, 2011 at 03:26 PM
I use Citavi as a bibliograhic referencing tool, not a writing tool. Therefore, in this workflow approach, I use it similar to how I used to work with Biblioscape and EndNote. I collect my references and extract knowledge items and notes within a single Citavi project. However, when I write, I use Word (or, more recently, Scrivener) to insert citations from Citavi. I am not creating a separate Citavi project for each writing project. The only difficulty right now is that I have to save my Word or Scrivener projects as RTF files and then run them through the Citavi Publication Formatter to have the citation codes and bibliography generated/compiled using APA 6 format. Not a big deal, but EndNote is much smoother for the actual writing/generation part.
—Glen
Posted by Karthik
Feb 2, 2018 at 05:13 PM
@Glen which version of Ideamason did you use?
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Feb 3, 2018 at 01:49 AM
Glen, I bought Citavia, and am gradually starting to use it. I like it. However, realized today, it might be helpful if I could find other users at the University of Manitoba.
Posted by Dellu
Feb 3, 2018 at 10:44 AM
Last time (a few years ago) I tried these apps, Qiqqa was much more robust than Biblioscape and Citavi. I specially loved its information management system (similar to Nvivo and Atlas) and its integration with Bibtex.
Have you guys tried Qiqqa? How does it compare with Bibloscape?
I am not much into the windows system anymore. But, I would love to see the progress made on these apps.