Campus and departmental volume and site licenses, purchasing information.

Overview

Site License

A site license is a purchase agreement where the rights are acquired to freely duplicate and distribute a software product over an entire site.

Volume Purchase

A "volume purchase" is a purchase agreement where the rights are acquired to duplicate and distribute a fixed number of copies of a software application with a limited number of authorized copies.

Campus Licenses

ArcGIS for Personal Computers

All students, staff, and faculty at UCSB are eligible for a 12-month license to ArcGIS for their personal computers. Refer to the Library Esri ArcGIS website for details.

Mathematica for Faculty, Staff, Employed Grad Students

Mathematica is available to all faculty, staff, researchers and employed graduate students at UCSB through a site license arrangement. Contact the LSCG via a help request if you need a copy.

Mathematica for Student Access on Personal Computers

The University now has a software agreement with Wolfram that allows students with a valid UCSB email address to install Mathematica software on their personal computers. This is only for undergraduate students and graduate students who are not employed. Send an email to help@lsit.ucsb.edu to obtain the instructions. This is managed by the Campus Office of Software Licensing (COSL).

Matlab

The campus now has a site license for MATLAB and 50 of its toolboxes. This covers all the toolboxes used on campus. Anyone at UCSB can use MATLAB for non-commercial purposes on as many machines as they like - both on campus and at home. Visit the UCSB MathWorks page to download MATLAB.

SAS

For information on the campus SAS license, contact help@cit.ucsb.edu for details of purchase and installation.

Trellix AntiVirus

Trellix AV is available to all University-owned computers at UCSB through a site license arrangement. Installation of Trellix should be automatic for all machines when they are added to the network. Please contact us if you believe Trellix is not present on a University-owned computer.

SPSS Statistics Premium

SPSS Statistics Premium including 16 modules and AMOS is available to the UCSB community. Follow instructions below.

  • To obtain an SPSS license, please fill out this form. Users will be sent an email with the code and a link to the software.
  • All licenses allow for installing SPSS on UC-owned and personal computers.
  • Access to the software has been set up via Google Drive.
  • Annual licenses are available for Faculty, Staff, and Researchers.

Department Licenses

Microsoft Office / CASA

CASA is a Microsoft licensing agreement for departments and groups that is renewed on a yearly basis. Windows and Microsoft Office licenses are provided free of charge for University-owned computers in participating groups. The College of Letters and Science now covers CASA for all faculty, staff, and students within the College.  Students should login to office.com using their UCSBNetID@ucsb.edu login.  Faculty and staff should do the same, but if that fails, please contact help@cit.ucsb.edu so that we can confirm eligibility and ensure your license is properly applied.

CHEM

  • ChemDraw - for participating labs
  • Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) - for participating labs

Antivirus Software

Trellix Antivirus is both available for installation and required on University-owned computers; Windows Defender can be used on privately-owned Windows computers. Antivirus software is required on all computers attached to the Life Sciences Network.

Adobe

Acrobat Pro

For editing PDFs, Acrobat Pro is the College standard solution.  Faculty and Staff who have a business need for Adobe Acrobat should contact us at help@cit.ucsb.edu.

Photoshop, Illustrator...

Apps other than Acrobat are only available as subscription-based licenses. Please contact us for a quote or Gateway order at help@cit.ucsb.edu. 

Endnote

The site will offer a download of the software once you make a purchase. 

Ordering Software

Software License Tracking

End users are responsible for maintaining records of software purchases and complying completely with the terms of all software licenses. These rights and restrictions are defined by a combination of Federal Copyright Laws and the End User License Agreement (EULA) for the particular software package.

Software Removal Upon Departure

Campus software agreements require that any software purchased through the Software Depot/COSL on a grant and installed on a non UC-owned computer be removed by the user at the time of departure from UCSB. This agreement applies to all departmental software (Matlab, Mathematica, Trellix, etc.) as well. The software is the property of the university and must remain with the university.

Chemistry Software

There are several software packages available to research groups on a subscription basis. For annual subscriptions, the renewal month is listed.

ChemDraw (October)
New users: Go to this site to register. Enter your Chem, MRL, ECE or Engineering email address and you will be able to download the installer package here. Additional vendor support documentation is available here.You must be a member of one of the following groups with an active paid subscription to receive an activation code for the ChemDraw software:

  • Bates
  • Butler
  • Carlini
  • Ford
  • Gainer
  • Greene
  • Hai
  • Han
  • Hawker
  • Hayton
  • Léonard
  • Lipshutz
  • Read
  • Scott
  • Segalman
  • Sepunaru
  • Seshadri
  • Theogarajan
  • Wilson
  • Zakarian
  • Zhang

Cambridge Structural Database System (ConQuest) - October

  • Doherty, Michael
  • Hayton, Trevor
  • Léonard, Nadia
  • Seshadri, Ram
  • Wilson, Justin
  • Wu, Guang (X-ray)

Gaussian 09

  • Aue
  • deVries
  • Bowers
  • All groups from CNSI

NI Labview 

A fairly old version of LabView is available to everyone, but the new version requires a subscription.