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
Azure Dev Tools for Teaching provides higher-education departments with additional Microsoft software and services.
Licensed for: STEM Students and Faculty.
Camtasia
Camtasia 2021 makes it simple to record and create professional-looking videos on Windows and Mac.
Licensed for: Faculty and Instructional Assistants
EndNote
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 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
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
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
Fast, functional, & totally free Screen reader.
Licensed for: Faculty, Staff and Students
Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Products
Includes Microsoft 365 Apps (formerly Microsoft Office) and collaborative tools.
Licensed for: Students, Staff, Faculty
Read&Write
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
SAS is a software suite developed by SAS Institute for advanced analytics, multivariate analyses, business intelligence, data management, and predictive analytics.
Available for purchase
TrendMicro Antivirus
Includes TrendMicro Office Scan and TrendMicro Security for Mac.
Free for McMaster owned devices.
If you are off-campus you must be connected to your VPN to login and view.
Zoom
Lean Library
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
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
|
Download |
| Azure Dev Tools for Teaching | STEM Students and Faculty | Download |
| Camtasia | Faculty and Instructional Assistants | 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 | Free for McMaster Owned Devices | 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 |