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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.
Azure Dev Tools for Teaching provides higher-education departments with additional Microsoft software and services.
Licensed for: STEM Students and Faculty.
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
Register with your McMaster email with the link below to access the following Freedom Scientific software:
Licensed for: Students, Staff, Faculty
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.
MATLAB® combines a desktop environment tuned for iterative analysis and design processes with a programming language that expresses matrix and array mathematics directly.
Fast, functional, & totally free Screen reader.
Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Products
Includes Microsoft 365 Apps (formerly Microsoft Office) and collaborative tools.
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.
SAS is a software suite developed by SAS Institute for advanced analytics, multivariate analyses, business intelligence, data management, and predictive analytics.
Available for purchase
McMaster University Libraries provides access to the LibKey suite, a set of tools that help students, faculty, and staff quickly find and access full-text scholarly content online.
SensusAccess is an online document conversion system supporting the transformation of text and image-based file types into different formats.