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 Word or PDF document or a spreadsheet.

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Copy the contents of the webpage to the Clipboard (press Ctrl+A to select all, and then press Ctrl+C.

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Click ISBN, DOI, PMID.

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Select 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 found
icon-isbn-not-found= Book 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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