The School uses a lot of open source software and some proprietory software. All of it comes with licensing restrictions, ranging from highly restrictive (e.g. Matlab, MS Office) through the GPL to the very open (e.g. various BSD licensed programs).
The School has MS Office in its teaching laboratories, but we also install Libre Office, which is free to download and cross-platform.
The College also licenses proprietory software which we are able to use, e.g. Endnote.
As much as possible, we buy “concurrent licences” – these allow a specified number of people to use the software simultaneously, but are much cheaper than a site license (everyone in EECS could use it) and more convenient than individual licenses (particular named people can use it).
You can view how many people are using a particular concurrent license using a web application developed for us by an intern, Alastair Hay, during summer 2010:
Use your web browser’s page search feature to find a particular product, eg. COMSOL.
Links
- Lab Software EECS Teaching Laboratory Software
- Endnote Bibliographic Software (QM Library pages)
- MATLAB Mathworks’ mathematical software (College site licensed)
- National Instruments National Instruments software (College site licensed)
- LaTeX LaTeX templates etc
- oXygen XML Editor oXygen XML Editor – v.19
- Imagine Access to Microsoft Imagine can be requested from the college. Please send a request to IT Service Desk at servicedesk@qmul.ac.uk.
- LibreOffice Free to use Office software, including word-processing, spreadsheet and presentation modules
- McAfee Anti-Virus software Licence agreement and download for college licensed A/V software
- Other College Licensed Software Central QM Software page
See also the Systems FAQ (Software and Licensing)