The University of Basel has terminated the campus licence for Citavi for the end of February 2025. EndNote and Zotero are still available for reference management. The university now offers unlimited storage space in the Zotero cloud. The university’s IT department cannot provide support for the switch from Citavi to Zotero or EndNote, but has compiled some helpful links:

•  An excellent and highly recommended step-by-step guide from the KIT library in Karlsruhe. It explains not only the individual steps for transferring the database, but also what rework will be necessary and where the limits lie.
  • >How to switch to Zotero
  • >How to switch to Endnote
• Zotero also offers a short guide in English for importing Citavi databases: >Importing a Citavi database
  • >Switching default locating for saving (switching cloud to local storage)
• EndNote also offers a quick guide for switching >Transferring data from Citavi Desktop to EndNote

If you are interested in other alternatives, we would like to refer you to the TU Munich library's comparison of reference management software.