Specific Offers for Lecturers, Scientists and Doctoral Candidates
In order to provide you with the best possible support for your scientific work and teaching, we offer personal consultations, coffee lectures and workshops, among other things.
Library tours
Scavenger Hunt with Actionbound
Getting lost in the corridors of the University Library has come to an end! In about 60 minutes you will experience an interactive library introduction with the app Actionbound. Explore your future place of learning and working with other participants by means of small tasks and quizzes. Please bring a smartphone with you for the Scavenger Hunt. You can install the Actionbound app here in advance. The Scavenger Hunt is available in English and German.
After the tour, you will receive a certificate of attendance for the library introduction.
Dates:
11.11.2024: 14:00–15:00
28.11.2024: 17:00–18:00
06.12.2024: 11:00–12:00
18.12.2024: 13:00–14:00
09.01.2025: 18:00–19:00
20.01.2025: 14:00–15:00
04.02.2025: 13:00–14:00
27.02.2025: 18:00–19:00
12.03.2025: 15:00–16:00
Registration
Location: Course room 2, Kiel University Library; meeting point: entrance hall
Workshops
Literature Management with Citavi - collecting, managing and editing literature

Literature management programs are software programs that support you in your studies, research and teaching when collecting, editing and managing literature sources. Students should get to know the possibilities of a literature management program early on so that they can use this tool optimally during their studies and for their theses.
Citavi is a very popular literature management program that offers you a wide range of support in the scientific research, work and writing process.
A campus-wide license for all students and members of the CAU in the Citavi 5 version is available free of charge via the data center. In order to be able to use Citavi, a one-off registration with your university email is required. You can find a guide to the installation in this video tutorial.
Since Citavi unfortunately only runs on a Mac (Apple) with a so-called virtualization solution, the paid EndNote software or the free Zotero software can be an alternative. You can find more information about Citavi on the CAU data center website.
In this workshop you will learn the basics of the software Citavi and the various possibilities to support you in the scientific research, working and writing process.
Recommended for: All students, teachers, scientists and PhD students
Duration: Approx. 90 minutes
Location: Online, via Zoom. You will receive the access data by email after registering the day before the event.
Dates and registration
Contact: Oliver Weiner and Thorsten Wetzenstein
Citavi version 7
Citavi version 7 has recently been made available for download. This version still seems to have some problems. In particular, upgrades from older versions are problematic. As of December 2024, Citavi 7 should not yet be used by the CAU. Citavi 6 is still available at the bottom of the computer centre's download page.
Literature Management with EndNote - collecting and managing literature in natural science subjects

Literature management programs are software programs that support you in your studies, research and teaching when collecting, editing and managing literature sources. Students should get to know the possibilities of a literature management program early on so that they can use this tool optimally during their studies and for their theses.
EndNote is a powerful reference management tool with a focus on natural science subjects in the "life science" disciplines.
In addition to the desktop version, a license also includes access to EndNote Web. EndNote supports you in the creation of scientific texts with its interfaces to the most common online information systems (catalogues, databases), in the collection of literature sources, the management of bibliographic information and the implementation of citation styles.
The Kiel University Library offers regular training courses on EndNote and support with application questions. In this workshop you will learn the basics of the software EndNote and the various possibilities to support you in the scientific research, working and writing process.
Recommended for: Students of natural sciences, teachers, scientists and PhD students
Duration: Approx. 90 minutes
Location: Online, via Zoom. You will receive the access data by email after registering the day before the event.
Dates and registration
Contact: Oliver Weiner
Literature Management with Zotero - collecting, managing and editing literature
Zotero is a free literature management program that can be installed platform-independently under the operating systems Microsoft Windows, macOS or Linux. This makes Zotero an alternative to Citavi or EndNote.
With Zotero, you can collect bibliographic information on scientific literature online via Connector or offline and manage it in literature lists. Zotero offers a folder structure, citation management, cloud storage for teams, and a wide range of citation styles.
The insertion of citations is done with the word processing programs Word or LibreOffice via a plug-in, which is included via the overall installation.
In the UB course "Literature Management with Zotero" you will learn to
- Download and installation
- Import literature citations from bibliographic databases
- Zotero Connector
- via database search and import of a file
- Identifiers (ISBN, ISSN, DOI)
- Manage literature collection and citations
- Create a folder structure
- Create citations
- Features
- Citation with Zotero (Word)
- Zotero Plug-In
- Selection of the citation style
- Inserting citations
Recommended for: All students, faculty, researchers, and doctoral students.
Duration: approx. 90 minutes
Location: Online, via Zoom. You will receive the access data via e-mail after registration on the day before the event.
Dates and registration
Contact: Oliver Weiner
Introduction to PubMed
In this course you will learn how to research medical literature in the PubMed database. We show you resources and services for literature supply and procurement with a focus on journal articles.
Recommended for: Advanced students, PhD students, scientists, doctors and other employees of the university and the university hospital
Duration: Approx. 60 minutes
Location: Online, via Zoom. You will receive the access data by email after registering the day before the event.
Dates and registration
Speaker: Oliver Weiner
Introduction to Web of Science
The Web of Science is an interdisciplinary scientific literature database that connects the publications it contains through its citation network. In addition to a search function, "citation tracking" can be used to identify frequently cited works and authors and to determine follow-up articles. The course will go into further detail on the hit analysis and statistics function.
Recommended for: All students of natural sciences, PhD students, teachers and scientists
Duration: Approx. 60 minutes
Location: Online, via Zoom. You will receive the access data by email after registering the day before the event.
Dates and registration
Speaker: Oliver Weiner
Subject Specific Offers
Each subject area has its own specifics and thus its own information resources. Therefore, in addition to the general courses and library introductions, we also offer training courses specifically designed for literature research in certain subjects.
Are you missing an offer for your subject area? Then please contact the respective subject librarians.
Workshops from other institutions
Events & Qualification Offers of Graduate Center
For PhD students, the Graduate Center offers various qualification programs that can be found here.