Software help - Lancaster University

Software help

The University makes available a large range of software applications to students and staff. As licences for software packages vary, the software catalogue below is designed to provide up-to-date information on software that is available, how to access it and what free training is available to you. For more information about software , see: licensing About University software licences. Information is also available about software on the and services.High End Computing (HEC) Interactive UNIX Service (IUS)

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Software title: ACD-NMR 12

Description: ACD/NMR Processor Academic Edition has basic and advanced functions for processing 1D and 2D NMR data from any instrument quickly and efficiently.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Free NMR processing software for academic and non-commercial use only.

Personal device arrangements:

Personal install permitted

Additional information:

Company no longer updating ACD-NMR academic licence. They do provide 30 day free trial of ACD/Spectrus Processor.

Launch: Windows users can launch using AppsAnywhere.

Users of other systems can use AppsAnywhere inside MyLab.

Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: ACD Labs website

Licence: Not required

Help and support:

Company support (provided by software vendor)

Company website:

Company website

Software title:

ActivePerl 5.24.0

Requests

Request new software

Related pages

About admin rights

About University software licences

AppsAnywhere help

High End Computing (HEC) help

Interactive UNIX Service (IUS) help

Software available by category

Software available on Android

Software available on iPhone and iPad

Software available on Linux

Software available on Mac

Software available on Windows

Software help

Training

Digital skills and IT training – free training sessions and online courses are available in a wide range of software

Please note: due to the large number of entries in the software catalogue, category pages may take some time to load.

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/About+University+software+licences

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/High+End+Computing+%28HEC%29+help

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Interactive+UNIX+Service+%28IUS%29+help

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/x/xn-e

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/x/oAuZAg

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/x/6WOI

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/x/qGCI

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/x/wgqZAg

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/x/9gqZAg

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/x/rmSI

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/x/rmSI

https://apps.lancaster.ac.uk/

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/MyLab+help

https://www.acdlabs.com/products/adh/spectrusprocessor/index.php

https://www.acdlabs.com/resources/knowledgebase/faqs/

https://www.acdlabs.com/products/adh/spectrusprocessor/index.php

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Request+new+software

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/About+admin+rights



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/AppsAnywhere+help





https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Software+available+by+category

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Software+available+on+Android

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Software+available+on+iPhone+and+iPad

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Software+available+on+iPhone+and+iPad

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Software+available+on+Linux

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Software+available+on+Mac

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Software+available+on+Windows

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Digital+skills+and+IT+training

Description: ActivePerl is the industry-standard, commercial-grade Perl distribution used by millions of developers around the world for easy Perl installation and quality-assured code.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Free for research and development. Read full license details






Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at the ActivePerl website


Help and support:


Company website:

Company website

Software title: Adobe Reader 19.010.20091

Description: Adobe Reader is a free PDF reader. Adobe Reader allows to read and print PDF documents on the web and on your computer.

Platforms: Windows, Mac

Licence Summary:

Adobe Reader is free to use by anyone




Annual proprietary licence.

Launch: Automatically made available on all ISS supported and managed devices.

Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Acrobat Reader DC installation and help


Help and support:

Adobe Reader DC help

Company support

Company website:

Company website

Software title:

Adobe Creative Cloud

Description:

Adobe Creative Cloud is a bundle of Adobe's graphic & media products that includes: Acrobat Pro DC, Bridge, Photoshop, Lightoom, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Premiere Pro and AfterEffects

Platforms: Windows, Mac, Mobile

https://www.activestate.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/activestate_community_edition_software_license_agreement.pdf



http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.24/

https://www.activestate.com/support/

https://www.activestate.com/activeperl

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Adobe+Reader+DC+installation+and+help

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Adobe+Reader+DC+installation+and+help

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/reader/faq.html

https://www.adobe.com/uk/

Licence Summary:

Site licence for all Lancaster University staff for active use on 2 devices

Students may access in selected PC Labs (including the Library, LICA, Learning Lab). Students are not permitted to access Adobe Creative Cloud products via virtual solutions such as MyLab.

LICA and Sociology fund a small number of named user licences for identified students.


Personal install permitted for staff only

LICA and Sociology fund a small number of named user licences for identified students which permit personal installation.


Staff licences by request.


Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Acrobat Creative Cloud installation and help

Licence: Adobe ID and your Lancaster University ( [email protected] )password.

Help and support:

Adobe Creative Cloud installation and help


Company website:

Company website

Software title:

Anki

Description:

Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Anki uses a smart flashcard system and is content-agnostic, the system supports images, audio, videos and scientific markup (via LaTeX)

Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Licence Summary:

Anki is free for anyone to use




GNU AGPL licence



Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at the Anki website


Help and support:


Company website:

Company website

Software title: AntConc 3.4.4 (3.5.8)

Description: A freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Adobe+Creative+Cloud+installation+and+help

mailto:[email protected]

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Adobe+Creative+Cloud+installation+and+help

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/support.html?promoid=KTVIN#/top_products

https://www.adobe.com/uk/



https://apps.ankiweb.net/

https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/help.html

https://apps.ankiweb.net/

Licence Summary: Free to use by all for non-commercial purposes




Licence information



Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at the AntConc website


Help and support: Company support (provided by software vendor)

Company website: Company website

Software title:

AppsAnywhere

Description:

AppsAnywhere enables Windows applications to be streamed to a virtual box and run on a user's PC using cloudpaging technology. Apps Anywhere enables us to deliver software to your device on request whilst allowing us to control licensing and access to the applications.

Platforms:

Windows

LicenceSummary:

Free to use for all Staff and Students to use, on and off-campus


Personal device use permitted




Installation:

Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at the AppsAnywhere help


Help and support:

AppsAnywhere help

Company website:

Company website

Software title:

ArcGIS Pro 2.5

Description: ArcGIS Pro is the essential application for creating and working with spatial data on your desktop. It provides tools to visualize, analyze, compile, and share your data.

Platforms: Windows

http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/releases/AntConc358/license.pdf



http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/antconc/







https://www.software2.com/

Licence Summary:

Free for all staff and students to use on and off-campus. Licence by request.




Some restrictions to non-academic use within the University. Please see lice (Option A).nce information

Launch: Personal install or lab use

Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: ArcGIS Pro installation and help

Licence: View license codes

Help and support:

ArcGIS Pro installation and help

eLearning course


Company website:

Company website

Software title: Arduino 1.8 [1.8.9]

Description: Arduino 'Integrated Development Environment' (IDE) software makes it easy to write code and upload it to the board.


Licence Summary:

Free for use by staff and students anywhere on and off-campus




GPL LGPL licence information



Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Arduino website




Software title:

Artemis 16.0.0 (18.0.2)

Description:

Artemis is a free genome browser and annotation tool that allows visualisation of sequence features, next generation data and the results of analyses within the context of the sequence, and also it's six-frame translation


Licence Summary:




https://www.chest.ac.uk/media/1276/esri-education-products-and-deployment-schedule.pdf

https://www.chest.ac.uk/media/1276/esri-education-products-and-deployment-schedule.pdf

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/ArcGIS+Pro+installation+and+help

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/RA/Licence+keys+and+file+locations

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/ArcGIS+Pro+installation+and+help

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=arcgis+pro

https://support.esri.com/en/knowledge-base

https://www.esri.com/en-us/home

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/FAQ#toc3



https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage

https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/Software

Additionalinformation:

GPL v3 licence information



Installation:

Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Artemis website


Help and support:


Company website:

Company website

Software title: Artemis ACT

Description: Artemis ACT is a free tool for displaying pairwise comparisons between two or more DNA sequences


Licence Summary: Free for use by staff and students anywhere on and off-campus




GPL v3 licence information



Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Artemis ACT website




Softwaretitle:

ATLAS.ti 9

Description:

ATLAS.ti helps you systematically analyse complex phenomena hidden in text and multimedia data by letting you locate, code, and annotate findings in primary data material, weighing & evaluating their importance, and visualise complex relationships.

Platforms:

Windows, Mac, Linux

Licence Summary:

Site Licence for Staff and Students for academic research and teaching purposes only. Commercial use is not allowed.




ATLAS.ti v9 is the only version site licenced

https://github.com/sanger-pathogens/artemis/blob/master/LICENSE



https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/artemis

https://sanger-pathogens.github.io/Artemis/Artemis/artemis-manual.html

https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/artemis

https://sanger-pathogens.github.io/Artemis/ACT/act-manual.html



https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/artemis-comparison-tool-act

http://sanger-pathogens.github.io/Artemis/ACT/

https://www.sanger.ac.uk/science/tools/artemis-comparison-tool-act



Installation:

Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: ATLAS.ti installation

Licence: Update licence code for manual installs

Help and support:

ATLAS.ti installation and help

eLearning course - students

eLearning course - staff


Company website:

Company website

Software title:

Atom

Description: Atom is a free text editor that's modern, approachable and hackable. Atom can be customised to do anything but also used productively without ever touching a config file.


Licence Summary:





MIT licence information

Licence code:

Not required



Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Atom website


Help and support:


Company website:

Company website

Software title: Audacity

Description: Audacity is free, cross platform, open source software for recording and editing sounds.


Licence Summary:

Free for all Staff and Students to use, on and off-campus.




GNU GPL licence information



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/ATLAS.ti+installation


https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/ATLAS.ti+installation

https://modules.lancaster.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=10081


https://atlasti.com/learning/free-training/

https://atlasti.com/

https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT



https://atom.io/

https://atom.io/docs

https://atom.io/

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/#GPL



Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Audacity installation and help

Licence code: Not required

Help and support: Audacity installation and help

eLearning course

Company website:

Company website

Software title: Autodesk Education

Description: Autodesk is a suite of commercial computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting software applications including AutoCAD.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Site licence for staff and students for teaching and non-commercial research use only.


Students and faculty staff can create free Autodesk accounts to access A direct from the vendors website.utodesk Education applications

Core applications have been made available via AppsAnywhere for ease of access on university owned devices.


Licence does not permit use for commercial research or business activity.

Launch: Windows users can launch core applications using AppsAnywhere.


Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Autodesk website


Help and support:

Company training (provided by software vendor)

Company website:

Company website

Software title: Avidemux

Description: Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.


Licence Summary: Freeware licence available to everyone.


Personal install permitted.

Additional information: GNU GPL licence information

Launch: Not available via AppsAnywhere. Manual install only.

Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device can be found at: Avidemux website


Help and support: Company website




https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Audacity+installation+and+help

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Audacity+installation+and+help

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=audacity+tutorials+for+beginners

https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/

https://www.autodesk.com/education/edu-software/overview?sorting=featured&page=1




https://www.autodesk.com/education/home

https://academy.autodesk.com/explore-and-learn

http://www.autodesk.co.uk/

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/#GPL

http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/download.html

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

B

Software title: BEAST 1.10

Description: BEAST is a cross-platform program for Bayesian analysis of molecular sequences using MCMC.

Platforms: Windows, Mac, HEC

Licence Summary: Free for all Staff and Students to use, on and off-campus.


Personal device permitted


GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1



Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: BEASTdoc website


HEC access: BEAST is available on the HEC. For more information, see High End .Computing (HEC) help

Help and support: Company support


Software title:

Blender 2.8

Description:

Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.


Licence Summary:

Open Source - free to staff and students, on and off campus.




GNU General Public License



Installation:

Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Blender website

Licence code:

Not required

Help and support:

Support (provided by software vendor)

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.en.html



https://beast.community/installing



https://beast.community/tag_help.html

http://beast.bio.ed.ac.uk/

https://www.blender.org/about/license/



https://www.blender.org/download/

https://www.blender.org/support/

Company website:

Company website

Software title: Bomgar

Description: Software providing secure remote access to support any device or system.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: 8 licences for use by ISS Service desk


Not permitted

Additional information: ISS internal use only

Launch: ISS internal use only

Installation: ISS internal use only

Licence: ISS internal use only



Software title: BOS (Bristol Online Surveys)

Description: Online survey platform for cross-university surveys.

Platforms: Software as a service

Licence Summary: For official national surveys such as PRES & PTES. Restricted to 10 licences.


Not required

Additional information: For general online surveys please utilise Qualtrics


Launch: Internal business use only

Installation: Internal business use only




C

Software title: Campaign Monitor

Description: Mass mailing with smart design of message

Platforms: Web

Licence Summary: Various departments have funded licences


Not required

Additional information: Software as a Service. Approved software for mailing lists. Data assurances approved.

https://www.blender.org/

https://www.beyondtrust.com/resources/videos#cardP=43848&cardLang=en

https://www.beyondtrust.com/

https://www.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/help-support/

https://www.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/

Launch: Software as a Service - accessed online

Installation: Software as a Service - accessed online



Software title:

Camtasia 2020

Description:

Camtasia is a screen recorder. It allows you to edit your videos. Record on-screen activity, add imported media, create interactive content, and share high-quality, HD videos that your viewers can watch anytime, on nearly any device.

Platforms:

Windows & Mac

Licence Summary:

71 individual licences for each version. Staff use only - 2 machines allowed per user.

Request access via helpdesk.


Not permitted


Named user list



Installation:

Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Camtasia website

Licence: Not required. Launch via Apps Anywhere.

Help and support:


Companywebsite:

Company website

Software title:

ChemDraw

Description: ChemDraw is a drawing tool for chemists to create publication-ready, scientifically intelligent drawings for use in ELNs, databases and for querying chemical databases.


Licence Summary:

Free for all Staff and Students to use, on and off-campus.




ChemDraw can be downloaded by anyone. A licence code can be downloaded from the ChemDraw website by members of the University.

The codes for ChemDraw are 'perpetual', but ChemDraw needs 'reactivating' on or around: 22/10/2021.



https://help.campaignmonitor.com/?_ga=2.187096939.297857200.1608129835-692450988.1608129835

https://www.campaignmonitor.com/



https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html

https://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-camtasia.html

https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html



Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: ChemDraw installation and help


Help and support:

ChemDraw installation and help


Company website:

Company website

Software title: Chimera 1.14

Description: UCSF Chimera is a highly extensible program for interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures and related data.


Licence Summary:

Free for all Staff and Students to use, on and off-campus for non commercial use.


Permitted for non-commercial use.


Chimera is no longer under active development.



Installation: Company website

Licence: UCSF Chimera Non-Commercial Software Licence Agreement

Help and support:

Tutorials (provided by software vendor)

Company website:

Company website

Software title:

Chromas 2.6.5

Description:

Chromas is an easy-to-use viewer and editor for chromatograms (traces) from automated Sanger sequencers. It has many format conversion options including batch processing functions to handle many files. it can use PeakTrace RP to enhance .ab1 files.

Platforms:

Windows

Licence Summary:

Free for personal use.


Permitted for personal use.


The PeakTrace RP component requires registration for a free account, and is a paid service after the 40 free units have been used.



Installation:

Company website

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/ChemDraw+installation+and+help


https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/ChemDraw+installation+and+help

https://www.perkinelmer.com/product/chemdrawpri-chemdrawpri

https://www.perkinelmer.com/



https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/download.html

https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/license.html

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/tutorials.html

http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/



http://technelysium.com.au/wp/chromas/

Licence: Company website

Help and support:

Company website:

Company website

Software title:

Classic LINDO 6.1

Description:

Classic LINDO's simple interface and straightforward model expression style make it easy to learn and use. Classic LINDO is appropriate for building and solving moderately sized linear and integer models.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Free trial version for all staff and students to use on and off-campus.


Permitted


The trial versions have all the features and functionality of the standard versions, but the problem capacities have been limited.



Installation:

Company website

Licence: Free trial version

Help and support:

User manual (PDF) (provided by software vendor)

Company website:

Company website

Software title: Code Blocks 13.12

Description: CodeBlocks is a free, open-source, cross-platform C, C++, and Fortran integrated development environment (IDE).


Licence Summary: Free for all staff and students to use on and off-campus.


Permitted





Licence: GNU General Public License, version 3 and GNU Lesser General for the SDKPublic License, version 3

Help and support: FAQs (provided by software vendor)


http://technelysium.com.au/wp/

http://technelysium.com.au/wp/chromas/



https://www.lindo.com/index.php/ls-downloads

https://www.lindo.com/downloads/PDF/LindoUsersManual.pdf

http://www.lindo.com



https://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/

https://www.codeblocks.org/license/gpl/

https://www.codeblocks.org/license/lgpl/

https://www.codeblocks.org/license/lgpl/

http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=FAQ

http://www.codeblocks.org/

Software title:

Colour Contrast Analyser v2.5

Description: The Colour Contrast Analyser (CCA) helps you determine the legibility of text and the contrast of visual elements, such as graphical controls and visual indicators.


Licence Summary:

Free - Open Source GNU licence for staff and students to use on campus or off.


Permitted





Licence: GNU General Public License

Help and support:

Get started (provided by software vendor)

Company website:

Company website

Software title: Csound 6.04

Description: Csound is a sound and music computing system, often used to compose electronic - acoustic compositions.


Licence Summary: Free for students and staff on and off-campus.




One of the main principles in Csound development is to guarantee backwards compatibility.




Licence: GNU Lesser General Public Licence



Software title: CytExpert 6.04

Description: CytExpert software is a full-feature software package that controls the CytoFLEX instrument's operation, collection of experiment data, and analysis of the results.


Licence Summary:

Free client from the manufacturer for use by anyone, anywhere



https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html

https://www.tpgi.com/color-contrast-checker/

https://www.tpgi.com/color-contrast-checker/



https://csound.com/download.html

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html

https://csound.com/get-started.html

https://csound.com/index.html




Freeware



Installation:


Help and support:

Company website

Company website:

Company website

D

Software title:

Datastream Advance

Description:

Datastream provides current and historical global financial and economic information. Datastream advance provides network access to the Datastream server for retrieval, display and manipulation of the datasets directly onto on-screen or downloading into spreadsheets or other applications.

Platforms:

Windows

Licence Summary:

5 Licences for Economics for Datastream Advance and 22 for Eikon which includes DataStream for Accounting and Finance students and staff.


Personal install permitted via AppsAnywhere


Membership controlled by the department.

Launch: Eikon can be launched via AppsAnywhere

Installation:

Eikon can be launched via AppsAnywhere

Licence:

Managed via LUMS

Help and support:

eLearning course

Company website:

Company website

Software title: dChip 2010



https://www.beckman.com/flow-cytometry/instruments/cytoflex/release-notes

https://www.beckman.com/coulter-flow-cytometers/cytoflex/cytexpert



https://training.refinitiv.com/datastream/

http://solutions.refinitiv.com/datastream-macroeconomic-analysis/?utm_content=TR%20Brand%20Product-UKI-EMEA-B-EN-BMM&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=bing&utm_campaign=68831_500kPPCRebrand&elqCampaignId=5916&utm_term=%20+reuters%20+datastream&msclkid=66e007a2d1891f3bf9225abe6a527b4c&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=TR%20Brand%20Product-UKI-EMEA-B-EN-BMM&utm_term=%2Breuters%20%2Bdatastream&utm_content=TR%20Brand%20Product%20%7C%20Datastream

Description: dChip Software: Analysis and visualization of gene expression and SNP microarrays

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: Free for students and staff on and off-campus.







Software title: DnaSP 5.10

Description: DnaSP, DNA Sequence Polymorphism, is a software package for the analysis of nucleotide polymorphism from aligned DNA sequence data.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Free for students and staff on and off-campus for non-comercial research.




Free for non-commercial use





Help and support:

Company website

Company website:

Company website

Softwaretitle:

DTM (Discrete Time Modelling)

Description:

DTM is designed to model the behaviour of time-dependent queueing systems (e.g. an emergency response service or a call centre) under different staffing patterns, given information on arrival rates and the probability distribution of service times.

Platforms:

Windows

Licence Summary:

DTM is provided for students studying ‘Queue Modelling’ in the Department of Management Science at Lancaster University but is available to all.

Launch:

Windows users can launch using AppsAnywhere.


Companywebsite:

No information available



https://sites.google.com/site/dchipsoft/downloading-dchip-software/user-group-and-posting-guidelines

https://sites.google.com/site/dchipsoft/home



http://www.ub.edu/dnasp/

http://www.ub.edu/dnasp/DnaSP6_Documentation_6.12.pdf

http://www.ub.edu/dnasp/



Software title:

Dynare for MATLAB 4.4

Description: Dynare is a software platform for handling a wide class of economic models, in particular dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) and overlapping generations (OLG) models.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Free for students and staff on and off-campus.






Licence: GNU General Public Licence version 3

Help and support:

Company website

Company website:

Company website

E

Software title: EaglePCB (AutoDesk)

Description: EaglePCB is 'Printed Circuit Board' design software.


Licence Summary:

Site licence for staff and students for teaching and non-commercial research use only.


Students and faculty staff can create free Autodesk accounts to access A direct from the vendors website.utodesk Education applications

Core applications have been made available via AppsAnywhere for ease of access on university owned devices.


Licence does not permit use for commercial research or business activity.

Launch: Windows users can launch core applications using AppsAnywhere.


Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Autodesk website


Help and support:

Company training (provided by software vendor)

Company website:

Company website



https://www.dynare.org/

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

https://www.dynare.org/manual/

https://www.dynare.org/





https://www.autodesk.com/education/home

https://academy.autodesk.com/explore-and-learn

http://www.autodesk.co.uk/

Softwaretitle:

Edgetrak

Description:

Edge Extraction and Tracking program Edge Trak tracks tongue and palate and extracts them as a series of coordinate points which are saved in a text file.

Platforms:

Windows

Licence Summary:

Free for Students and Staff, on and off Campus.



Company website:

Company website

Software title:

EIKON

Description: EIKON provides access to trusted news, data, and analytics (inc. Datastream), all filtered by relevance to your exact needs, and displayed in a highly visual way that's easy to grasp and act on.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

22 concurrent seats for Accounting & Finance Students and Staff.


Account required for install. Accounts managed via LUMS.


Account is required for access. These are managed by LUMS



Installation: To be confirmed


Company website:

Company website

Software title: Elan

Description: ELAN is a professional tool for the creation of complex annotations on video and audio resources.


Licence Summary: Free for Students and Staff, on and off Campus.




Licence requires that the software is cited wIthin research output.




Licence: Not required.



https://www.commsupplygroup.com/edgetrak-cpe-test-agent/



http://financial.thomsonreuters.com/en/products/tools-applications/trading-investment-tools/eikon-trading-software.html



https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan/download



Software title: Emacs Editor

Description: GNU Emacs An extensible, customizable, free/libre text editor. Emacs includes many features including an Emacs tutorial.


Licence Summary:

Open Source. Free for Students and Staff, on and off Campus.







Licence: GNU General Public Licence version 3

Help and support:


Company website:

Company website

Software title:

EndNote

Description:

Bibliographic add on for Microsoft Word to support you with referencing and organising your information sources.


Licence Summary:

EndNote is licensed for use by any member of the University. It may be accessed on and off campus, on both University and personal devices. However, access by the virtualisation such as Mylabs and MyDesktop is not permitted.


Personal installation permitted.


Site licence


Installation:

Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: EndNote installation, help and training


Help and support:

EndNote installation, help and training


Companywebsite:

Company website

https://archive.mpi.nl/tla/elan/documentation

https://tla.mpi.nl/tools/tla-tools/elan/



https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/documentation.html

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/


https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/EndNote+installation%2C+help+and+training


https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/EndNote+installation%2C+help+and+training

http://clarivate.libguides.com/endnote_training/users

https://endnote.com/

Software title: Envi

Description: Geospatial analysis programme with an intuitive interface that will help extract meaningful information from images

Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux.

Licence Summary: Site licence for staff and students for academic and educational purposes.


Personal installation permitted for educational purposes on a single device.



Installation: Accessing via AppsAnywhere or MyLab is advised.

Licence: Managed by LEC



Software title:

Erlang

Description:

Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. Some of its uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Free (Open Source) for students and staff, on and off campus, worldwide.





Installation:

Company website

Licence: Apache Licence 2.0

Help and support:


Companywebsite:

Company website

Software title: Planet EStream Encoder

Description: Create your own eStream video for the University 'YouTube like' media store.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: Available to staff and students


Personal installation permitted

Additional information: Intergrated with Moodle for ease of access



https://www.l3harrisgeospatial.com/Support/Self-Help-Tools/Tutorials

https://www.harrisgeospatial.com/



https://www.erlang.org/downloads

https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html

https://www.erlang.org/docs

https://www.erlang.org/



Licence: Site licence

Help and support: Lancaster eStream help


Software title: Eviews

Description: EViews offers access to powerful statistical, forecasting, and modelling tools through an innovative, easy-to-use object-oriented interface.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

200 seat concurrent licence available to LUMS staff and students on: network, VPN and Apps Anywhere offline use.




LUMS Concurrent



Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Eviews installation and help


Help and support:

EViews installation and help

Company website:

Company website

F

Software title:

f.lux

Description:

f.lux makes your computer screen look like the room you're in, all the time. When the sun sets, it makes your computer look like your indoor lights. In the morning, it makes things look like sunlight again.


Licence Summary:

Free for personal use only.


Personal install permitted for personal use only.


Software can't be used by staff for Lancaster University business use.






https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Lancaster+eStream+help

http://www.planetestream.co.uk/



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/EViews+installation+and+help

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/EViews+installation+and+help

http://www.eviews.com/general/prices/price_acad_vol.html



https://justgetflux.com/

Licence: f.lux End User Licence Agreement

Help and support:


Company website:

Company website

Software title: Facets

Description: Many-Facet Rasch Analysis

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: Site Licence limited to Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences .


Students can access free version for educational use via the supplier's website



Licence: End User Licence Agreement



Software title:

FEBio

Description:

‘The Embryonic Disk’ is an electronic learning resource to aid the study of the human embryology.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

FEBio and its source code are freely available for non-commercial use, including academic research and teaching applications.




The FEBio source code and Software Development Kit (SDK) are now distributed under the . The binary executables that can be MIT licencedownloaded from the FEBio website are still distributed under a custom license



Installation:

Company website

Licence: FEBio Custom licence

Help and support:


Company website:

Company website

Software title: FigTree

Description: FigTree is designed as a graphical viewer of phylogenetic trees and as a program for producing publication-ready figures. Figtree is used with BEAST software.

https://justgetflux.com/news/pages/eula/

https://justgetflux.com/faq.html

https://justgetflux.com/



https://www.winsteps.com/eula.htm

https://www.winsteps.com/tutorials.htm

http://www.winsteps.com

https://mit-license.org/



https://febio.org/downloads/

https://febio.org/about/licensing/febio-license/

https://febio.org/knowledgebase/

https://febio.org/


Licence Summary:







Licence: GNU Library or Lesser General Public License version 2.0 (LGPLv2)

Company website:

Company website

Software title: FireZilla

Description: Open source FTP program.


Licence Summary: Free for Students and Staff, on and off Campus.






Licence: GNU General Public Licence, version 2



Software title:

Filings Expert

Description:

Developed by experienced market practitioners with in-depth knowledge of the legal and financial communities, Filings Expert is focused around user workflows adding real value to your day to day tasks from structuring new deals to searching for precedents.

Platforms:

Windows

Licence Summary:







http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/figtree/

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.0.html

http://tree.bio.ed.ac.uk/software/figtree/




https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html

https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Documentation

https://filezilla-project.org/



Installation:

Licence:

Help and support:

Company website:

Company website

Software title: FireAnt

Description: A freeware social media and data analysis toolkit (developed in collaboration with Claire Hardaker of Lancaster University).

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Freeware






Installation:

Licence:

Help and support:


Company website:

Company website

Software title: FreeMind

Description: FreeMind is free mind mapping software (Open Source Software)


Licence Summary: Freemind is an open source licence which means it is free for installation and use by enyone.






Installation:

Licence:

Help and support:


https://www.perfectinfo.com/filings-expert



http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/fireant/releases/FireAnt202/help.pdf

http://www.laurenceanthony.net/software/fireant/



http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

G

Software title: GAUSS

Description: GUASS is a matrix programming language

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: For 14 concurrent licences available to a named list of users in LUMS (only).





Installation:

Licence:



Software title: Gemalto eSinger

Description: Gemalto eSigner is the Smartcard software for accessing the Barclays website and has restricted access..net

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:



Launch:

Installation:

Licence:

Help and support:

Company website:

Software title: Geneec V2.0 (Web-based)

Description: Tier One Screening Model for Pesticide Aquatic Ecological Exposure Assessment

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: Freeware - available to all for free.



Launch:

Installation:

Licence:



https://www.aptech.com/support/

http://www.aptech.com/

http://Barclays.net

http://Barclays.net

Help and support:


Software title:

GIMP

Description: GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Platforms: Windows, Mac.

Licence Summary:

Freeware - available to all for free.






Installation:

Licence:

Help and support:


Company website:

Company website

Software title: Git

Description: Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.


Licence Summary:

Free (open source) available to staff and students on and off campus.






Installation:

Licence:

Help and support:


Company website:

Company website

https://archive.epa.gov/epa/pesticide-science-and-assessing-pesticide-risks/geneec2-description.html



https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/

https://www.gimp.org/



https://git-scm.com/doc

https://git-scm.com/

Software title:

Google Earth

Description:

Google Earth is a virtual globe, map and geographical information program. It maps the Earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS 3D globe.


Licence Summary:

Free for personal use.






Installation:

Licence:

Help and support:

Company website:

Company website

Software title: GoPro Studio

Description: An easy to use video editor with lots of features including unvert clips and slow motion.


Licence Summary: Free to use by anyone from anywhere. This app is free from a commercial provider.






Installation:

Licence:

Help and support:


Software title:

Great-er

Description:

GREAT-ER (geo-referenced Regional environmental Exposure Assessment Tool for European Rivers) is a model for environmental risk assessment and management of chemicals in river basins.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:




http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/index.html



https://gopro.com/en/as/shop/softwareandapp/gopro-studio/GoPro-Studio.html






Installation:

Licence:

Help and support:


Company website:

Company website

Software title:

Gromacs

Description: GROMACS is a versatile package to perform molecular dynamics, i.e. simulate the Newtonian equations of motion for systems with hundreds to millions of particles.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Freeware - anyone can use GROMACS for free.






Installation:

Licence:

HEC access: Gromacs is available on the HEC. For more information, see High End .Computing (HEC) help

Help and support:


Company website:

Company website

Software title: GuassView

Description: GuassView is an advanced tool for visualising and studying molocules.

Platforms: Linux

Licence Summary: A site licence for use on University owned Linux computers on campus





https://git-scm.com/doc

https://git-scm.com/





http://www.gromacs.org/Support

http://www.gromacs.org/About_Gromacs

Launch:

Installation:

Licence:



Software title: gVim

Description: A programmers editor - a Unix Vi lookalike.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: Free, open-source software.






Installation:

Licence:



H

Software title:

Hypersignal

Description:

Time Domain Display and Waveform Editing. Both .TIM and .WAV file formats are accepted. Dual-trace or overlaid display, with interactive controls including zoom, pan, cut-paste editing, rubberband editing, output to D/A for supported board types, & more.

Platforms:

Windows

Licence Summary:

iLancaster is available to all students and staff on and off campus



Launch:

Installation:


http://gaussian.com/techsupport/

http://www.gaussian.com/




https://www.vim.org/docs.php

http://www.vim.org/

Help and support:

Company website:

I

Software title: ICE GB

Description: ICE-GB is the British component of the International Corpus of English (ICE).

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: ICE GB is available to all students and staff on and off campus




Launch: Open ICE GB website

Installation: Download from App store or Google Play




Software title:

iLancaster

Description:

Mobile application that delivers a wide range of information to students and staff. It is available on iPhone, Android and windows phones. It developed by ISS and based on CampusM from ExLibris.

Platforms: Windows and mobile devices

Licence Summary:

iLancaster is available to all students and staff on and off campus




Also available for University applicants

Launch: Open iLancaster website

Installation: Download from App store or Google Play


Help and support:

iLancaster help

Company website:

Company website

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/english-usage/projects/ice-gb/iceorder2.htm



http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/iLancaster/

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/iLancaster+help

https://www.exlibrisgroup.com/products/campusm-mobile-campus-app-platform/

Software title:

SPSS

Description:

Statistical software for business, government, research and academic organizations.

Platforms:

Windows, Mac,

LicenceSummary:

SPSS is available in PC Labs and Teaching Spaces. SPSS may be installed on LU users PCs and Macs on and off campus. This licence allow the use of SPSS for non-commercial educational purposes only. The licence does not cover University internal business usage.




Site licence



Installation:

Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: SPSS installation, help and training


Help and support:

SPSS Statistics installation, help and training

eLearning course


Company website:

Company website

Software title:

SPSS

Description:

Statistical software for business, government, research and academic organizations.

Platforms:

Windows, Mac

LicenceSummary:

SPSS is available in PC Labs and Teaching Spaces. SPSS may be installed on Ghana users PCs and Macs on and off campus. This licence allow the use of SPSS for non-commercial educational purposes only. The licence does not cover University internal business usage.




Site licence

Launch: For access please contact Ghana IT support

Installation:

Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: SPSS Statistics installation, help and training

Licence:

To update license code contact Ghana IT support



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/SPSS+Statistics+installation%2C+help+and+training



https://development.lancaster.ac.uk/mod/page/view.php?id=553

http://www.spssusers.co.uk/index.html

https://www.spssanalyticspartner.com/software/ibm-spss-software-bundles/


Help and support:

SPSS Statistics help and training

eLearning course


Company website:

Company website

Software title:

SPSS AMOS

Description:

SPSS Amos enables you to specify, estimate, assess and present models to show hypothesized relationships among variables. The software lets you build models more accurately than with standard multivariate statistics techniques.

Platforms:

Windows

LicenceSummary:

SPSS AMOS is available in PC Labs and Teaching Spaces. SPSS AMOS may be installed on LU users PCs and Macs on and off campus. This licence allows the use for non-commercial educational purposes only. The licence does not cover University internal business usage.




Site Licence



Installation:

Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: IBM SPSS Amos access

Licence:

View license

Help and support:

IBM SPSS Amos access


Company website:

Company website

Software title:

SPSS AMOS

Description:

SPSS Amos enables you to specify, estimate, assess and present models to show hypothesized relationships among variables. The software lets you build models more accurately than with standard multivariate statistics techniques.

Platforms:

Windows

Licence Summary:

SPSS AMOS may be installed on Ghana users PCs and Macs on and off campus. This licence allows the use for non-commercial educational purposes only. The licence does not cover University internal business usage.





http://www.spssusers.co.uk/index.html

https://www.spssanalyticspartner.com/software/ibm-spss-software-bundles/



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/IBM+SPSS+Amos+access



https://developer.ibm.com/predictiveanalytics/

https://www.ibm.com/uk-en/marketplace/structural-equation-modeling-sem/resources


Site Licence

Launch: For access please contact Ghana IT support

Licence: To update license code contact Ghana IT support

Help and support:

IBM SPSS Amos access


Companywebsite:

Company website

Software title: Image Studio Lite

Description: Image Studio Lite is for Western Blot analysis (in Molecular Biology).

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: Image Studio Lite is available to all students and staff on and off campus






Installation: Image Studio Lite website




Software title: Inkscape

Description: Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It's free and open source.


Licence Summary: Inkscape is Free and Open Source Software licensed under the GPL.






Installation: Inkscape website





https://developer.ibm.com/predictiveanalytics/

https://www.ibm.com/uk-en/marketplace/structural-equation-modeling-sem/resources



https://www.licor.com/bio/image-studio-lite/download

https://www.licor.com/bio/image-studio-lite/

https://www.licor.com/bio/image-studio-lite/



https://inkscape.org/en/download/

https://inkscape.org/en/about/

https://inkscape.org/en/about/

Software title:

Inputlog

Description:

Inputlog is a logging tool that logs all types of input modes: keyboard, mouse & speech recognition. Researchers make frequent use of keystroke logging tools to describe online writing or translation processes in detail.

Platforms: Windows,

Licence Summary:

Free for research users.






Installation:

Inputlog website


Help and support:

Company website

Company website:

Company website

Software title: Inkscape

Description: Inquisit 4 Web enables you to administer precision psychological measures over the web


Licence Summary: Free for personal use.






Installation: Inquisit Web 4 website




Software title: IrfanView

Description: IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE graphic viewer for Windows.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: Freeware - free for personal and/or educational use anywhere.





http://www.inputlog.net/download.html

http://www.inputlog.net/contact.html

http://www.inputlog.net/contact.html



https://www.millisecond.com/download/inquisitweb4.aspx

http://www.millisecond.com/

http://www.millisecond.com/




Installation: IrfanView website




Software title: iTunes

Description: Music organiser and player.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: Free supplied by Apple






Installation: IrfanView website




J

Software title: Cisco Jabber

Description: Cisco Jabber provides a single interface across presence, instant messaging (IM), voice, video, voice messaging, desktop sharing, and conferencing.


Licence Summary:

Staff only




Name list user group



Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Jabber and phone extension help

Licence: View license



http://www.irfanview.com/







http://www.apple.com/uk/itunes/

http://www.apple.com/uk/itunes/



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=6918701


Help and support:

Jabber and phone extension help

Company website:

Company website

Software title:

Jamf

Description:

Device management software for Apple Mac products


Licence Summary:

Licensed for up to 35 devices


Not applicable


ISS internal use only



Help and support:


Company website:

Company website

Software title: JASP

Description: JASP, a low fat alternative to SPSS, and is a delicious alternative to 'R'. In short, Bayesian statistics made accessible.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Open source - free to use on and offsite by staff and students.








Company website:

Company website

Software title: JW Player

Description: Video platform enabling the embedding of video content within webpages

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: ISS internal use only

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=6918701

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/unified-communications/jabber/index.html

https://www.jamf.com/resources/videos/

https://www.jamf.com/



https://jasp-stats.org/support/

https://jasp-stats.org/



Additional information: ISS internal use only

Launch: Contact service desk




K

Software title: K-Lite Codec Pack

Description: The K-Lite Codec Pack is a software bundle for high quality playback of music and video files.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: Seems to be free









Softwaretitle:

Kramer VIA

Description:

VIA turns any screen into a potential meeting point for ideas to stream freely without conventional restrictions that consume or constrict a meeting’s resources. Independent of wires and cables for total connectivity, VIA is an audio- visual integrator.

Platforms:

Windows, Mac, Android, iPhone, iPad

Licence Summary:

Free licence from the manufacturer

Personaldevice arrangements:





https://support.jwplayer.com/

https://www.jwplayer.com/



https://www.codecguide.com/faq.htm

https://www.codecguide.com/faq.htm




Help and support:

Wireless presentation options in meeting rooms and teaching spaces

Company website:

Company website

L

Software title: Labstats

Description: Software to monitor lab device usage to assist with forecasting future resourcing requirements


Licence Summary: Licenced for 1200 devices


Not applicable







Software title:

LabVIEW

Description:

LabVIEW integrates all the tools that engineers and scientists need to build a wide range of applications in dramatically less time, LabVIEW is a development environment for problem solving, accelerated productivity, and continual innovation. LabVIEW allows you to model, measure and test your applications.

Platforms:

Windows

Licence Summary:

University owned PCs in FST Faculty. Student install is available for users studying on qualifying programmes (install handled by Physics).

Personal devicearrangements:



Boundary defined licence to FST

Launch:

Contact Service Desk

Licence:

Contact Service Desk

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/x/1YA-Ag

https://www.kramerav.com/

https://support.labstats.com/quick-start/

https://support.labstats.com/

Help and support:

LabVIEW access

Company website:

Company website

Software title: LanSchool

Description: LanSchool allows you to take control of technology in the classroom so that you can monitor, collaborate and communicate with your students more effectively.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

465 perpetual device based licences


Not permitted


Staff use only

Launch: Internal business use only

Licence: Not applicable

Help and support:


Company website:

Company website

Software title:

Leximancer

Description:

Specialist analytics software for unstructured, qualitative, textual data

Platforms:

Windows, Mac

Licence Summary:

Site Licence for use and installation by academic staff and students

Personal devicearrangements:



Leximancer is available for use and installation by academic staff and students on Windows and Mac devices. Students will automatically have access to it via Apps Anywhere, however academic staff will need to request access to it by raising a service desk ticket. The software is not licensed for University business activities.

Launch:

Windows users can launch using AppsAnywhere.


Installation:

Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Leximancer installation and help

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/LabVIEW+access

http://uk.ni.com/

https://www.lenovosoftware.com/support/lanschool/tutorials

https://www.lenovosoftware.com/lanschool



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Leximancer+installation+and+help

Licence:

View license code

Help and support:

Leximancer installation and help

Company training and tutorials (provided by software vendor)

Company website:

Company website

M

Software title: Maple

Description: Maple is a symbolic mathematics package.

Platforms: Windows, Mac, IUS

Licence Summary:

Maple may be installed on Windows PCs on and off campus by any member of the University.




Site licence



Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Maple installation and help


Help and support: Maple help


Company website:

Company website

Software title: MATLAB

Description: MATLAB is a package for matrix algebra and many other numerical applications

Platforms: Windows, Mac, HEC

Licence Summary:

Full academic site licence for all students and staff on and off-campus, network and personal install. This licence is for non-commercial, academic use only.




Instructions for submitting requests on the HEC



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/x/AJZp

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Leximancer+installation+and+help

https://info.leximancer.com/training-information

https://info.leximancer.com/



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Maple+installation+and+help


https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Maple+installation+and+help

https://www.maplesoft.com/support/training/index.aspx

https://www.maplesoft.com/contact/?P=TC-3406

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Using+MATLAB+on+the+HEC



Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: MATLAB installation, help and training


HEC access: MATLAB is available on the HEC. For more information, see High End .Computing (HEC) help

Support: MATLAB help and training

eLearning course


Company website:

Company website

Software title:

Microsoft Office 365

Description:

Office 365 is a subscription service, paid for by the university, that grants users access to the Microsoft Office software suite as well as cloud-based online versions of the apps. The package contains software such as: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote, Outlook and many more.

Platforms:

Windows, Mac, Linux

LicenceSummary:

Available to all Lancaster University students and substantial staff members.


All students and staff can access the online Office 365 applications, however the downloadable desktop applications are restricted to all students, and staff on substantial contracts with the University.


Licence does not cover partner organisations.

Launch: Log into Office 365

Licence:

Microsoft EES Campus Agreement

Help and support:

Office 365 help and training

Company website:

Company website

Softwaretitle:

Microsoft Project Professional

Description:

Microsoft Project Professional is a project management software program which is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analysing workloads.

Platforms:

Windows

Licence Summary:

Staff licensed and only on University owned devices

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/MATLAB+installation%2C+help+and+training




https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/MATLAB+installation%2C+help+and+training


https://uk.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/?s_tid=gn_mlc

https://uk.mathworks.com/?s_tid=gn_logo

https://lancaster.ac.uk/office365

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Office+365+help+and+training

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb


Not permitted


Microsoft Project Professional is only available on Windows Computers running Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016 and NOT Microsoft Office 365 Pro Plus.

You will need to request admin rights to install the software on University owned computers.



Licence: Licensed via the campus agreement

Help and support:

Microsoft Project and Microsoft Visio help and training


Company website:

Company website

Software title:

Microsoft Project Standard 2003 SP0

Description:

Microsoft Project Standard is a project management software program designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analysing workloads.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

40 user licence for use in specific LUMS PC Labs


Not permitted


Student use only

Licence code:

Not required

Launch: Installed in specific LUMS PC labs

Help and support:


Companywebsite:

Company website

Softwaretitle:

Microsoft Teams

Description:

Microsoft Teams is a proprietary business communication platform developed by Microsoft, as part of the Microsoft 365 family of products. Teams offers workspace chat and videoconferencing, file storage, and Office 365 application integration.

Platforms:

Windows, Mac, Linux

Licence Summary:

Free to download and included as part of the university's Office 365 subscription for all students and staff on substantial contracts.



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Microsoft+Project+and+Microsoft+Visio+installation%2C+help+and+training

https://support.office.com/en-gb/project


https://support.office.com/en-gb/project





Licence does not cover partner organisations.

Staff on casual contracts may not have advanced functionality. If full functionality is required for job role, please provide Head of Departments authorisation for a licence upgrade to the ISS Helpdesk.

Launch: Log into Office 365

Licence: Microsoft EES Campus Agreement

Help and support:

Microsoft Teams help and training

Company website:

Company website

Software title:

Microsoft Visio Premium

Description:

Microsoft Visio Premium is a program that uses vector graphics to create diagrams and flowcharts. It includes additional templates for advanced diagrams & layouts and allows users to connect their diagrams to data sources.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Staff licensed and only on University owned devices


Not permitted


Microsoft Visio Premium is part of the Microsoft Campus agreement.

Licence code:

Licensed via the campus agreement

Launch: You will need to request admin rights to install the software on University owned computers

Support: Microsoft Project and Microsoft Visio help and training


Companywebsite:

Company website

Software title:

Mindjet MindManager

Description: Mindjet Mind Manager is a powerful mind mapping tool for capturing and organising information and ideas. This software can help you organise concepts for projects and assignments.


Licence Summary:

ISS has purchased a full staff and student site licence for MindJet Mind Manager. MindJet Mind Manager is available on University computers and for install on personal computers.

https://lancaster.ac.uk/office365

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Microsoft+Teams+help+and+training


https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Microsoft+Project+and+Microsoft+Visio+installation%2C+help+and+training

https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/basic-tasks-in-visio-b58073c2-12c8-4981-ad7e-235066fa910d?ocmsassetID=HA102749197&CorrelationId=d0b5d02e-c79e-4e38-8ac5-89988d4663b0&ui=en-US&rs=en-GB&ad=GB





Site licence



Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your devide (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Mindjet MindManager installation, help and training


Help and support:

Mindjet MindManager help and training

eLearning course


Company website:

Company website

Software title: Mobius Assessment (DigitalEd)

Description: Online assessment tool that integrates with Moodle and enables you to assess understanding of mathematical concepts

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

EDUSERV site licence for staff and students on and off campus




Due to be withdrawn July 2020


Launch: Contact ISS Service Desk


Company website:

Company website

Software title: Modes

Description: The software is used to manage collections in the Peter Scott Gallery

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: 5 user licence


Not applicable

Additional information: Contact ISS Service Desk - FIT North Team

Licence code: Contact ISS Service Desk

Launch: Contact ISS Service Desk





https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Mindjet+MindManager+installation%2C+help+and+training


https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Mindjet+MindManager+installation%2C+help+and+training


https://www.mindjet.com/support/product-resources/user-manuals/

https://www.mindjet.com/

https://www.digitaled.com/resources/webinars/recorded

https://www.digitaled.com/products/assessment

https://www.modes.org.uk/support/your-support-options.html

https://www.modes.org.uk/

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Software title: NetLogo 6.1

Description: NetLogo is a multi-agent programmable modeling environment.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: Site licence



Licence code:



Help and support: Documentation (provided by software vendor)


Software title:

Nlogit (Limdep)

Description:

NLOGIT Version 4.0 is an extension of LIMDEP that provides programs for estimation, model simulation and analysis of multinomial choice data, such as brand choice, transportation mode, and all manner of survey and market data

Platforms:

Windows

Licence Summary:

Economics have a 10 user license. NLogit is installed on the 10 PCs in the Economics base room which is Management School B39 and is only available in that PC Lab.


Personal install not permitted


Central code required for lab install

Licence code:

Not required

Launch: Installed in LUMS PC lab B29

Help and support:


Companywebsite:

Company website

Software title:

Notepad++ 7.9.1




http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/docs/

http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/

http://www.limdep.com/support/faq/

http://www.limdep.com/products/nlogit/

Description:

Notepad++, a source code editor and MS Windows Notepad replacement. Notepad++ prodes assitance with writing HTML, PHP, C++ and many other languages. Includes 'adspell' an open source spell checker.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Notepad++ is an open source program which is available for use and install on any Windows PC.




Licence code:



Help and support:

Online help (provided by software vendor)

Company website:

Company website

Software title:

Novabench

Description:

Computer benchmarking software.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Free for students and staff, on and off campus.




Licence code:

Launch: Download from company website.

Help and support:


Company website:

Company website

Software title:

NVivo Plus

Description: QSR NVivo Pro is a qualitative analysis application that helps you to analyse unstructured information like documents, surveys, audio, video and pictures. Mac version now available.

Nvivo Plus is purely for Windows devices and includes innovative social network analysis tools.




http://notepad-plus-plus.org/online-help/

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

https://novabench.com/docs

https://novabench.com/

Licence Summary:

Full site licence installable on staff and student PCs. Note - NVivo on Apps Anywhere is on-campus only.




Licensing information



Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Nvivo Plus installation and help

Licence: View license code

Help and support:

NVivo Plus help

eLearning course


Company website:

Company website

O

Software title:

Octave

Description:

GNU Octave featues a high-level programming language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides a command-line interface for solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for other numerical experiments using a MATLAB-like lang.

Platforms:

HEC

Licence Summary:

Open source free licence for all on the HEC



Licence code:

Launch:

HEC access:

Octave is available on the HEC. For more information, see High End Computing .(HEC) help

Help and support:

Help and support (provided by software vendor)

Company website:

Company website

https://www.chest.ac.uk/agreements/qsr-nvivo/



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/NVivo+Plus+installation+and+help


https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/NVivo+Plus+installation+and+help


https://www.qsrinternational.com/nvivo/nvivo-training

https://www.qsrinternational.com/nvivo/home



https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/support

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/index

Softwaretitle:

Open Office 4.1.3

Description:

OpenOffice is a leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages.

Platforms:

Windows, Mac

Licence Summary:

Open source. Free to use on and off site by staff and students.




Licence code:



Help and support:


Company website:

Company website

Software title: OpenBUGS 3.2

Description: OpenBUGS is a software package for performing Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling.


Licence Summary: Open source. Free to use on and off site by staff and students.




Licence code:



Help and support:

Company website:

Software title:

OpenRefine 2.6



https://www.openoffice.org/support/index.html

https://www.openoffice.org/



Description: OpenRefine is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Open source. Free to use on and off site by staff and students.




Licence code:


Help and support:

Documentation (provided by software vendor)

Company website:

Company website

Software title:

Origin Pro

Description:

Origin is a data analysis and graphing application suitable for both beginners and advanced users. Origin permits the use of templates and batch operations to streamline repetitive tasks without the need for programming.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Site licence for staff and student use, both on and off campus




1000 seat network licence and 1000 home use node locked.

The home use node locked seats are by request only and are reserved for when access by AppsAnywhere is not possible. Access to these can be requested by contacting [email protected]



Licence: For access to the home use node locked licences please contact [email protected]

Help and support:

Company support (povided by software vendor)

Company website:

Company website

PSoftware title: Packet Tracer

https://openrefine.org/documentation.html

http://openrefine.org/






https://www.originlab.com/index.aspx?go=SUPPORT/VideoTutorials

https://www.originlab.com/

Description: An innovative network configuration simulation tool free for Networking Academy students.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: Free to Network Academy users.



Licence code:



Help and support: FAQs (provided by software vendor)


Software title: Paint.NET 4.0.6

Description: Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: Paint.NET is free software.


Personal install is permitted.


Licence code:



Help and support: Tutorials (provided by software vendor)


Software title:

PC Info

Description: PC Info - shows information about: PC Lab PCs, Teach Space PCs and Windows 7 PCs to users. The information is useful for reporting problems to the ISS Service Desk.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Free utility from ISS



Licence code:

Launch:

Help and support:



https://www.netacad.com/courses/packet-tracer/faq

https://www.netacad.com/about-networking-academy/packet-tracer/



https://forums.getpaint.net/forum/18-tutorials-publishing-only/

http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

Company website:

Software title:

Pd Extended

Description: Pure Data (aka Pd & Pd Extended) is an open source visual programming language. Pd enables musicians, visual artists, performers, researchers, and developers to create software.


Licence Summary:

Free for staff and students, on and off campus.




Licence code:


Help and support:

Documentation (provided by software vendor)

Company website:

Company website

Software title: PDFtk 3.6

Description: PDFtk Free is a compact tool for quickly merging and splitting PDF documents and pages. It is free to use for as long as you like.


Licence Summary:

Free open source licence for students and staff on and off campus.




Licence code:



Help and support:

Company website:

Company website

Software title:

Panopto

Description:

Panopto's video platform includes recording (including dynamic screen capture), a portal for storing and managing your videos, a search engine for finding content inside your videos, and interactive video players. Videos can be linked to Moodle pages.

http://puredata.info/docs

http://puredata.info/



https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/

Platforms:

Windows & Mac

Licence Summary:

Recording licenses available to all staff, must be requested. Available off site.


Permitted


Panopto is only available to University staff to capture and edit recordings at the present time

Launch: Please see Answers page for install instructions


Support: Panopto help and training


Company website:

Company website

Software title: PhysWhiz ll

Description: PhysWhiz is about the endocrine system


Licence Summary: Free for use by staff and students.



Licence code:



Help and support:

Company website:

Software title: Populus

Description: The Populus software contains a set of simulations that we use to teach population biology and evolutionary ecology at the University of Minnesota.


Licence Summary:

Free for students on and off campus.




Licence code:



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Panopto+help+and+training

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Panopto+help+and+training

https://support.panopto.com/s/

https://www.panopto.com/






Help and support:

Company website:

Company website

Software title:

POVRay

Description:

The Persistence of Vision Raytracer is a high-quality, Free Software tool for creating stunning three-dimensional graphics. The source code is available for those wanting to do their own ports.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Free for staff and students, on and off campus.




Licence code:


Help and support:

FAQs (provided by software vendor)

Company website:

Company website

Software title:

Powerworld

Description: An interactive power system simulation package designed to simulate high voltage power system operation on a time frame ranging from several minutes to several days.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Site licence



Licence code:



Help and support:

Knowledge base (provided by software vendor)

Company website:

Company website

Software title: Python

http://www.cbs.umn.edu/research/resources/populus

http://wiki.povray.org/content/Knowledgebase:POV-Ray_Questions_and_Tips

http://www.povray.org/



https://www.powerworld.com/knowledge-base

https://www.powerworld.com/

Description: Python is an object-oriented programming language that comes with its own integrated development environment: IDLE.


Licence Summary:





Python Software Foundation License




Support: Answers support

Company support

Company website:

Company website

Q

Software title: QtiPlot

Description: QtiPlot is a cross platform data analysis and scientific visualisation solution


Licence Summary: Full site licence on PC, Mac, Linux for any student or staff member to use or install the software.




Interoperability with Origin and Matlab files.






Software title: Qualtrics

Description: A sophisticated online tool for creating and carrying out surveys and analysing responses.

Platforms: Web based – Software as a Service

Licence Summary: Academic licence for staff and student, all faculties on and off campus - Site Licence.


Permitted as web based. Offline application available on request.


International campus usage permitted. Partner institutions require separate licence.

https://docs.python.org/3/license.html



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Python+installation%2C+help+and+training

https://docs.python.org/3/

https://www.python.org/



https://www.qtiplot.com/doc/manual-en/index.html

https://www.qtiplot.com/

Launch: Please see Answers page


Help and support: Qualtrics help and training

eLearning course



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Software title:

Read and Write - Texthelp

Description:

Read&Write is an easy to use accessibility toolbar that works within many Windows based applications e.g. MS Office, email, internet & databases. It assists users in the development of their basic skills in reading and writing, whilst also making resources more accessible.

Platforms:

Windows, Mac.

LicenceSummary:

Site licence for use by all students and staff on University owned devices.


Not permitted


Includes access to all supported platforms including Windows, Mac, Google Chrome, iPad and Android on all university-owned devices.



Licensecode:

Not permitted

Help and support:

Read and Write help and training


Company website:

Company website

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Software availability – Covid-19

TextHelp have kindly opened up their licensing to cover offsite use on personal devices until July 31st 2021. Please contact [email protected] to request access.

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Qualtrics+access%2C+help+and+training

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Qualtrics+access%2C+help+and+training


https://www.qualtrics.com/support/

https://www.qualtrics.com/uk/



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Read+and+Write+installation%2C+help+and+training

https://www.texthelp.com/en-gb/support/training/getting-started/

https://www.texthelp.com/en-gb/


Software title:

SAS

Description:

SAS enables you to access data of any complexity, scale, speed, format or source. It enables the streamlining and automation of data preparation and allows you to execute your analytics strategy.

Platforms: Windows, HEC

Licence Summary:

We have a site licence for SAS with Enterprise Miner for staff and students on and off campus. This licence allows for the use of SAS for educational purposes only




Software has geographical restrictions: (i) can be used only within the UK & Ireland and (ii) on a portable computer in countries outside the UK & Ireland for up to three (3) months of an annual licence period.



Installation:

Instructions for installing manually on your devide (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: SAS installation and help


HEC access:

SAS is available on the HEC. For more information, see High End Computing .(HEC) help

Help and support:

SAS help


Company website:

Company website

Software title: Simul8

Description: Fast, powerful, and easy to use simulation software to create a visual simulation of your business

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

Lancaster University currently hold an educational site license. This license can only be used by staff and students for academic purposes.




For paid commercial consultancy projects a commercial license of SIMUL8 Professional must be purchased




Support: Company support (provided by software vendor)

Company website:

Company website

Software title: SiSo

Description: SiSo is an asset management system / resource management system for managing the loan of equipment in LICA



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/SAS+installation+and+help




https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/SAS+installation+and+help

https://video.sas.com/category/videos/how-to-tutorials

https://www.sas.com/en_gb/home.html




https://support.simul8.com/

https://www.simul8.com/

Platforms: Web

Licence Summary:

Student and Staff Site Licence to loan equipment through the SiSo website. LICA equipment is restricted to LICA and Sociology users.


Web based



Launch: https://iss-loans.siso.co/

Help and support:

Support from Lancaster Sociology department

Company website:

Company website

Please see IBM SPSS & IBM SPSS Amos

Software title:

SolidWorks

Description:

SolidWorks is Computer-aided-design and computer-aided-engineering modelling software. Its integrated analytical tools and automation will assist you in modelling your projects and assessing their behaviour under changing parameters.

Platforms:

Windows

Licence Summary:

500 user concurrent network licence (onsite) for use by undergraduates and staff for teaching purposes only. Non-commercial and commercial research use is not permitted.


Undergraduates and staff can download the student edition to their personal devices by visiting www.solidworks.com/sek


Launch: Contact Service Desk

Licence: Contact Service Desk

Help and support:

Solidworks

Solidworks training resources (from the vendor)

Company website:

Company website

Software title: StataMP4

Description: Stata is a complete, integrated statistical package that provides everything you need for data analysis, data management, and graphics.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

80 Concurrent seats restricted to: Accounting and Finance: Staff and Postgraduates, Health Research: Staff and Researchers, Economics: PHD Students

https://iss-loans.siso.co/

https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/digital-media-studio/

https://www.siso.co.uk/

http://www.solidworks.com/sek

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Solidworks

https://my.solidworks.com/

http://www.solidworks.com/


Personal device use permitted via AppsAnywhere


Network licence is currently only available for Windows users due to lack of copy control with the software.



Installation: Instructions for installing on your device can be found on the Stata . installation page


HEC access: StataMP4 is available on the HEC. For more information, see High End .Computing (HEC) help

Help and support:

Stata installation

Company website:

Company website

Software title: Stata SE

Description: Stata is a complete, integrated statistical package that provides everything you need for data analysis, data management, and graphics.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary:

The Stata SE licence is concurrent (150 seats) for LUMS, Maths and Stats students in PC Labs and student PC/laptops via AppsAnywhere.


Personal device use permitted via AppsAnywhere.


Network licence is currently only available for Windows users due to lack of copy control with the software.



Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: Stata installation


Help and support:

Stata installation

Company website:

Company website

Software title: Subtitle Edit

Description: Subtitle Edit is a free and opensource application that allows you to amend subtitles within video content to improve the accessibility of your resources.

Platforms: Windows, Linux

Licence Summary:

GNU GPL licence - free and opensource






https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/x/1kPe





https://www.stata-uk.com/software/stata.html/?utm_medium=adwords&utm_campaign=&utm_source=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI3rzF_u265wIVC7DtCh00LgoeEAAYASAAEgI4WPD_BwE




https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Stata+installation

http://www.stata.com/




Help and support:

Subtitle Edit training and help

eLearning course


Company website:

Company website

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Software title: Cisco Webex Player

Description: Cisco's player for .arf/.wrf Webex recording files.

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: Free for all to use.









Software title: Cisco Webex Suite 28

Description: The full set of supporting software for Cisco Webex Web Conferencing System.



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/Subtitle+Edit+installation%2C+training+and+help

https://www.nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit/Video

https://www.nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit/Help

https://www.nikse.dk/SubtitleEdit




https://help.webex.com/en-us/

https://www.webex.com/play-webex-recording.html

Platforms: Windows

Licence Summary: Free for all to use.








Company website:

X

Y

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Software title: 7-Zip 9.38

Description: 7-Zip is an open source file archiver, or an application used to compress files. Z-zip can create and open 'zip' and 'rar' format files, and many other formats.


Licence Summary:

7-Zip is free to use by anyone


Permitted for personal device use


GNU LGPL Licence information




Installation: Instructions for installing manually on your device (without AppsAnywhere) can be found at: 7-Zip installation and help.

Help and support:

Answers support

eLearning

Company website:

Company website



https://help.webex.com/en-us/

https://7-zip.org/license.txt



https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/x/Xpdp

https://answers.lancaster.ac.uk/display/ISS/7-Zip+installation+and+help

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwwmZwk4nlg&feature=youtu.be

https://www.7-zip.org/

Documents

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