---
type: Marketing Page
title: 'Comparison: Citavi'
description: Citavi organises one person's sources for a project. Librario holds the
  whole company's collection — across projects and personnel changes. Here is how
  they work together.
resource: https://www.librario.de/en/vergleiche/citavi
tags:
- vergleiche
---

# Comparison: Citavi

Citavi 
### What Citavi does

The personal reference and knowledge manager. Citavi is strong where one person drives their project forward.

- Collect sources for a piece of research and cite them in Word
- Structure quotes, thoughts and categories per project
- Organise your own research for one undertaking

## Structured data

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```

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```