Ordering Books and Articles

Citavi helps you order books from a bookseller, be it an online bookseller or a neighborhood book shop.

If you have a service that helps you obtain articles, see Ordering an Article below.

Selecting Your Preferred Bookseller

1.On the Tools menu, click Options.

2.Click the Ordering tab and then click Online Booksellers.

3.If you are connected to the Internet, the list of available booksellers is updated automatically. Select the booksellers you want from this list and then click Up and Down to set the preferred search order.

Hint: If you choose several booksellers, Citavi goes through the list in the order shown to check if the book is available. An order page is shown only for the first bookseller found that carries the book.

Ordering a Book from an Online Bookseller (Ordering Online)

1.Switch to the Reference Editor and verify that the book has an ISBN number.

2.Click Tasks & locations.

3.Click Order and then click Online.

4.Citavi searches for the book in the catalogs of the selected booksellers. Your Web browser will then open the book's page on the bookseller's online store so you can place an order.

Ordering a Book from your Local Bookstore (Ordering via E-mail)

1.Locate the reference in the Reference Editor.

2.Click Tasks & locations.

3.Click Order, and then click Book by e-mail.

4.Citavi copies the bibliographic information of the current reference, along with a default message, into a new e-mail message, provided you have an e-mail program such as Outlook or Thunderbird installed and configured. The message will be addressed to the bookstore set in the Options menu. To configure the address and the default message, on the Tools menu, click Options. Click the Ordering tab and enter the e-mail address in the Bookseller order by e-mail field and the default message into the E-mail text for bookseller orders box.

5.In your e-mail program, edit the message if necessary and then send it.

Ordering an Article

1.Locate the reference in the Reference Editor.

2.Click Tasks & locations.

3.Click Order and then click Other by e-mail.

4.Citavi copies the bibliographic information of the current reference, along with a default message, into a new e-mail message, provided you have an e-mail program like Outlook or Thunderbird installed and configured. The message will be addressed to the service provider set in the Options menu. To configure the address and the default message, on the Tools menu, click Options. Click the Ordering tab and enter the e-mail address in the Other order by e-mail field and the default message into the E-mail text for other orders box.

5.In your e-mail program, edit the message if necessary and then send it.

URL for this page: http://manual.citavi.com/en/?ordering_books_articles.htm (Last updated: 04.05.2012 13:35:44)
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