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Software Licensing – Students

Find licencing information on a variety of software and services

If you have any questions, or are unable to resolve your issue, support can be received via the Service Desk.

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McMaster provides opportunities for software licenses to be purchased at reduced educational prices or at no cost. Software licenses available for purchase are only available to staff and faculty and must be purchased with a McMaster account.

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Azure Dev Tools for Teaching Learn More

Azure Dev Tools for Teaching provides higher-education departments with additional Microsoft software and services. 

Licensed for: STEM Students and Faculty. 

EndNote Learn More

EndNote is a citation management tool that moves you through the research process as you search, organize, write, publish, and share your work. Whether you’re writing a paper or manuscript, leading a research project, maintaining a CV, teaching a course, or applying for a grant, EndNote can help you.

Licensed for: Faculty, Staff and Students

Freedom Scientific Register Here

Register with your McMaster email with the link below to access the following Freedom Scientific software:

  • Jaws Screen Reader
  • ZoomText magnifier with speech
  • Fusion powered by Jaws & ZoomText

Licensed for: Students, Staff, Faculty

Mathematica Learn More

For three decades, Mathematica has defined the state of the art in technical computing- and provided the principal computation environment for millions of innovators, educators, students and others around the world. 

Licensed for: Students, Staff, Faculty

MATLAB Learn More

MATLAB® combines a desktop environment tuned for iterative analysis and design processes with a programming language that expresses matrix and array mathematics directly.

Licensed for: Faculty, Staff and Students

NVDA Download NVDA

Fast, functional, & totally free Screen reader.

Licensed for: Faculty, Staff and Students

Microsoft 365 Learn More

Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Products

Includes Microsoft 365 Apps (formerly Microsoft Office) and collaborative tools. 

Licensed for: Students, Staff, Faculty 

Read&Write Learn More

Read&Write is a literacy support tool that offers help with everyday tasks like reading text out loud, understanding unfamiliar words, researching assignments and proofing written work. 

Licensed for: Students, Staff, Faculty 

SAS Learn More

SAS is a software suite developed by SAS Institute for advanced analytics, multivariate analyses, business intelligence, data management, and predictive analytics.

Available for purchase

Windows Learn More

Licensed for: Students, Staff, Faculty 

Zoom Learn More

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars.
Licensed for: Students, Staff, Faculty

Lean Library Learn More

McMaster University Libraries is pleased to offer Lean Library, a browser extension which simplifies your off-campus access to e-resources provided by the Libraries, and many other features for both on and off campus.

SensusAccess Learn More

SensusAccess is an online document conversion system supporting the transformation of text and image-based file types into different formats.

Expandable List

Software
Licensed for
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Azure Dev Tools for Teaching STEM Students and Faculty Download 
Camtasia Faculty and Instructional Assistants Download 
Cortex Faculty and Staff Download
Mathematica Faculty, Staff and Students DOWNLOAD
MATLAB Faculty, Staff and Students Download
Office 365 Faculty, Staff and Students Download
Read&Write Faculty, Staff and Students DOWNLOAD
SAS Available for Purchase Download
TrendMicro Anitvirus Faculty and Staff Download
UTS Quick Support (Windows) Faculty, Staff and Students Download (Windows)
UTS Quick Support (Mac) Faculty, Staff and Students Download (Mac)
VMWare Academic Program Faculty, Staff and Students Download
Windows Faculty, Staff and Students Learn More
Virtual Private Network Faculty, Staff and Students Learn More
Zoom Faculty, Staff and Students Download