Adding Multiple Books by ISBN Number

If you have a list of books containing ISBN numbers, you can easily add all of the referenced books to Citavi, regardless of whether the list is a webpage, a text file or a spreadsheet.

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Select the list of ISBNs and copy it to the Clipboard.

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In Citavi, click Retrieve by ISBN.

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Click Text from Clipboard and then click Paste from Clipboard.

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Citavi filters out the ISBN numbers and performs the search.
icon-isbn-found = Book was found
icon-isbn-not-found = Book was not found
icon-isbn-exists = Reference already in project

Click Add to project.

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The imported references are applied as a selection. You can now work with a selection containing only the search results. To see all of your references again, click Cancel selection.

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