Subscription Databases

Many bibliographic databases are restricted to subscribers. Colleges, universities, companies and other organizations buy subscriptions to provide their users access to subscription databases. User authentication is used to verify that you are entitled to access.

Finding Subscribed Databases

If you're connected to a corporate or university network, Citavi can automatically detect many subscription databases your organization has subscribed to. If you're away from the campus network, you can often connect to the network remotely using a Virtual Private Network (VPN). Ask your network administrator if VPN access is available.

1.In the Reference Editor, click Online search.

2.Click Autodetect subscribed databases.

Searching a Subscription Database

1.In the Reference Editor, click Online search in the toolbar. If necessary, add the online resource. See: Selecting online resources.

2.Select a subscription database and enter your search query.

3.The first time you search a subscription database, you will be asked to authenticate:

a.IP address: If you are a member of an organization that has subscribed to the database you are accessing, and you are connected to the organization's network, first see if you can authenticate by IP address. Click Test to try.

b.Username and password: In other cases, a database requires a username and password (and sometimes organization) login to authenticate. Ask the appropriate person — typically a librarian — at your organization for the login information and enter it here.

4.Citavi Pro and Citavi Team users can select Remember to save the login credentials for future searches. Citavi Free users must enter the login credentials manually after every time Citavi is exited.

Note: Web searches of bibliographic databases are generally limited to IP address authentication. Citavi uses an alternative method, the Z39.50 protocol. When using Z39.50, many providers of subscription databases expect a username and password instead of, or in addition to, IP address authentication.

Removing or Changing Saved Login Credentials

If you made a typo in a username or password, you can enter the credentials again or delete them:

1.On the Tools menu, click Options.

2.On the Search tab, click Edit credentials for subscription databases.

3.Select the database credentials you want to remove or change and then click Remove or Change.

URL for this page: http://manual.citavi.com/en/?searching_subscription_databases.htm (Last updated: 05.10.2011 14:57:52)
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