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IBM SPSS AMOS
Posted by Kathleen Beauparlant in Installation & Configuration, Purchasing & Licensing, Services, Software on August 8, 2012
IBM SPSS Amos is a statistical software program that allows the user to create a non-graphical method to specify models. While this program is part of the SPSS family of products, it is not included under the volume licensing agreement with IBM for SPSS. Any individual who wishes to purchase AMOS must do so directly [...]
Tufts acquires Site License for ChemDraw Pro
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Frequently Asked Questions, Purchasing & Licensing, Software on July 5, 2012
Tufts has recently acquired a site license for ChemDraw by PerkinElmer Informatics. ChemDraw Pro is a software package that allows for the drawing of basic chemical structure and provides Chemical query properties. The ability to create and edit templates and nicknames, Annotation, Relative Stereochemistry, ISIS/Draw Compatibility, support for ISIS-style Data SGroups, Chemical File Formats, Expansion [...]
OIT – Who we Support
Posted by Paul Morrison in Desktop Computing & Printing, Desktop Support, Frequently Asked Questions, Installation & Configuration, Library Services, Purchasing & Licensing, Services, Software on June 22, 2012
Who we support: The Office of Information Technology (OIT) supports faculty and staff at Tufts University School of Medicine, its affiliates, The Sackler School of Biomedical Sciences and the Friedman School of Nutrition. OIT also supports Graduate students in the Sackler and Nutrition Schools working with Tufts-owned equipment (typically in Laboratories and Core facilities). OIT [...]
Am I eligible to purchase software for personal use at a discount?
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Frequently Asked Questions, Purchasing & Licensing, Service Catalog, Software on May 7, 2012
Tufts University has a contract with Kivuto to distribute software covered under Employee purchase programs via their web store at http://tufts.onthehub.com. Eligibility: Full-Time Faculty, Staff and Students Software is available from many vendors, including: Microsoft, Adobe, Parallels, National Instruments, Minitab, IBM, JMP, Systat, iGrafx, SigmaFlow, Quark, Trend Micro, Thomson Reuters, Inspiration, Columbia University, Student Backup, StatSoft, and [...]
R Project
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Purchasing & Licensing, Research Cluster, Software, Teaching, Learning & Research on April 18, 2012
R is a free open source software environment for statistical computing and graphics. To read more information, please visit the R-Project website. R and a number of packages available for R have been installed and are available on the Tufts Research Cluster. To see what packages are available, please visit the Research Computing Cluster Installed [...]
SAS Genetics Module
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Purchasing & Licensing, Service Catalog, Software, Teaching, Learning & Research on April 13, 2012
Tufts has purchased the SAS Genetics module as an add-on to the SAS Educational Analytic Suite software bundles that Tufts owns. The SAS Genetics module is now available, at no additional cost to users, for installation with every SAS license that has been purchased under Tufts’ annual volume license renewal. The only restriction pertains to [...]
Statistical Computing Blog
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Purchasing & Licensing, Service Catalog, Software, Teaching, Learning & Research on April 13, 2012
A blogsite run by UIT that includes Suggestions and comments about obscure and useful statistical software. Statistical Computing Matters
SAS Site License Agreement
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Frequently Asked Questions, Purchasing & Licensing, Service Catalog, Software on March 20, 2012
Tufts has signed a site license agreement with SAS for the use of their statistical analysis software. This software is available for teaching and research. Administrative use is not permitted. The license includes the following: Unlimited desktop installs for Windows 32-bit and Windows 64-bit Unlimited Windows server installs, 32-bit and 64 bit There is no [...]
Tufts VMWare Purchasing Agreement
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Frequently Asked Questions, Purchasing & Licensing, Service Catalog, Software on March 19, 2012
At the end of February 2012, Tufts entered into a 3-year purchasing agreement with VMWare. This agreement makes it possible for the University to acquire VMWare software at significant savings. For purchases of VMWare software products covered under the agreement, there will be a 51% discount off the commercial list price. Annual support costs will, [...]
Adobe Acrobat for Faculty Grants Program
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Purchasing & Licensing, Service Catalog, Software on March 10, 2012
The “Adobe Acrobat for Faculty Grants” program provides Adobe Acrobat licenses free of charge to Tufts faculty submitting grant applications to funding organizations. More and more funding agencies have begun to require that grant applications be submitted as PDF (portable document format) files. Adobe Acrobat, a software package used to create PDF files, is the [...]
Bioinformatics
Posted by Kevin Murphy in Purchasing & Licensing, Research Cluster, Service Catalog, Software, Teaching, Learning & Research on March 10, 2012
Bioinformatics: The application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. For more information regarding the Bioinformatics resources available at Tufts University, please see the link below. Tufts UIT Research Computing Bioinformatics
Geographic Information Systems Center
Posted by Kevin Murphy in GIS & Mapping, Purchasing & Licensing, Service Catalog, Software, Teaching, Learning & Research on March 10, 2012
The GIS (Geographic Information Systems) Center is a teaching and research facility funded, maintained, and supported by University Information Technology (UIT) to promote and facilitate GIS, remote sensing, cartography, and geographic research and analysis. The GIS Center is located on Level 2 of the Tisch Library at the far end of the Map Room behind [...]