How to get software

 For the full software list consult the table below or scroll down for more information.

Software full list catalogue 

  • The list below shows the general availability for each software product.
  • Your personal entitlement will depend on the status shown on your University Card (this will be verified when purchased via the IT Services Shop).
  • This list is intended to show all software generally available throughout the University. If you are aware of software that should be included on this list please contact us at Software Licensing.
  • All centrally funded software is on this list. If you don't find it here you will need to request it from your department, college, or self-fund the product. Do note, that for any new software which runs in the cloud (or part of) will need to go through a third party security assessment.
  • Download links may be restricted access. ITSS indicates the link is only for registered IT Staff.

 

Software and validity Additional details License terms

University units

Staff Students

1Password

Annual renewal

Please request a quote directly from Bytes (email oxforduni@bytes.co.uk or contact our Bytes account manager directly).

Minimum 15 licenses in your initial order.

Terms Yes Personal use is included in license Personal use is included in license

Adobe CLP Agreement

Perpetual/non-subscription

Contact oxforduni@bytes.co.uk

Adobe CLP Agreement includes this software with perpetual licensing is not free of charge:

  • Adobe Acrobat DC - withdrawn by Adobe and no longer available
  • Adobe Captivate
  • Adobe Photoshop Elements
  • Adobe Premiere Element
  • Adobe Lightroom
Terms Yes

Yes

No

Adobe VIP Agreement

IT Services/CONNECT Managed Users 

have their own portal.
Contact purchasing@it.ox.ac.uk

The online shop Adobe portal 
renews each Sept.

Each portal has its own renewal anniversary based on setup date

Adobe VIP Agreement includes this software with subscription licensing:

  • Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps
  • Adobe Dreamweaver CC
  • Adobe Illustrator CC
  • Adobe InDesign CC
  • Adobe Photoshop CC
  • Adobe Premiere Pro CC

Note: 2+ apps are the same cost as All Apps

Terms Yes

Yes

Local Device Licence Portals 

Adobe 
Student Educational discount

 

 

ArcGIS

Site-licensed
Annual renewal  expires 31/7/2025

Windows

Departmental contacts for ArcGIS (ITSS)

ESRI Terms

Yes

ArcGIS Pro (ITSS)

Yes Yes

BadCopy Pro (JuSoft)

4.1.0 build 125

File recovery software  

ITSS

Yes No
CasaXPS Analysis techniques for both spectral and imaging data   ITSS    

ChatGPT

ChatGPT Edu licensed to 31 August 2025

Discounted licenses are available through your department, see buying GenAI licenses.   N/A Yes No

ChemOffice and Crystal Maker (PerkinElmer)

 

Database Integration, a Faster Interface & More Color Capabilities.

Contact: Karl Harrison

 

ChemOffice/Draw
Crystal Maker

Same as Unit  

Copilot for Microsoft 365 (Microsoft)

Licensed to 31 August 2025

Discounted licenses are available through your department, see buying GenAI licenses.

  N/A Yes No

Corel Academic Site Licence

Site licensed
Annual renewal expires 31/8/25

Corel Painter, PaintShop Pro, CorelDraw Graphics Suite, PDF Fusion, VideoStudio Pro, Website Creator Terms ITSS    
0101/Crystalmaker Suite (CrystalMaker, CrystalDiffract, SingleCrystal)

Visualization and analysis of crystal and molecular structures

Annual site licence

  Yes Yes Yes

EndNote

Site-licensed
Perpetual 
Annual renewal
31/12/24
 

Dept/College-owned Windows and macOS

For University machines via ITSS for staff and students

Terms ITSS    

EndNote

For personal use - same as above

EndNote allowed for personal use
but will no longer update on leaving
the University

Terms Site Licensed - 
no charge
Site Licensed -
no charge
Site Licensed -no charge

ENVI

 

Image Processing and Analysis   Geography    
ERDAS IMAGINE Windows and Unix   Earth Sciences    

File System Factory (Condrey)

Annual renewal
expires 31/10/25

    Yes    

Imagine 'former' Microsoft software

'Azure Dev Tools for Teaching'

Formerly DreamSpark

We are working with our Microsoft colleagues to make this available as soon as possible

  Students 
only
   
Intel C/C++ for Linux Compiler ARC   Free    
Intel Fortran for Linux Compiler ARC   Free    

JRButils Managing Micro Focus v28

Retired product - last update July 2022

Formerly Novell Terms

No charge

ITSS

   

JRButils for Active Directory v15

same as above

 

  Terms

Free

ITSS 

   

Kofax Power PDF Advanced for Windows

Site-licensed
Perpetual with annual maintenance
expires 20/3/25

Kofax bought PDF- formerly Nuance

Mac licenses are not incl. and can be purchased from the
Online Shop

 

Yes

ITSS

   
LabVIEW Due to a significant price increase and subscription model, Physics will no longer support this software Contact Supplier National Instruments      

MapInfo Pro

Rental until 2017

includes Mapbasic via download
Contact OUCE
 

 

   

MAPLE

No longer renewed as
site-licence.

Windows, Mac and Linux

Contact Bytes oxforduni@bytes.co.uk
or Maple directly

       

Mathematica / Wolfram

Site-licenced
Annual renewal
expires 1/11/25

Windows, Mac and Linux.
 
Terms Site Licensed -
no charge
Site Licensed -  no charge Site Licensed - no charge

Matlab Campus Licence

Site-licensed
Annual renewal  expires 31/7/25

Windows, Mac and Linux.  Additional toolboxes included

Matlab representatives

Agreement Details

Site Licensed -
no charge

ITSS 

Site Licensed - no charge Site Licensed - no charge

Micro Focus

Perpetual
Annual maintenance 
expires 31/7/25
 

 Formerly Novell

Available for use as:

  • OES on SLES
  • SLES only when used in support of an OES installation
Terms Yes    

Microsoft 365

Site-licensed
Renewed for 3 years expires 31/8/27

Includes Windows desktop OS, Microsoft Office desktop and online, SharePoint Designer and Core CALs.

License covers staff included in annual headcount plus students

Terms

Site Licensed -
no charge

ITSS

   

Microsoft Campus

This has been superseded by our Microsoft 365 license (see above)        

MS Windows educational software
formerly On-the Hub will be part of
MS Azure Dev Tools

Windows - Students only
We are working with our Microsoft colleagues to make this available as soon as possible
WAH Terms   MS Azure Portal MS Azure Portal

Microsoft Select

Not included in Campus agreement

Windows Server
Project, Visio, SQL, CALs, etc.

3 ways to order:

Please order directly from our supplier Bytes in one of the following ways:

1.  Oracle Punchout

2.  Direct via Bytes Portal - for those outside Oracle. Contact Bytes for access.

3.  Quotes - email oxforduni@bytes.co.uk 
or for expert licensing advice from our certified Microsoft experts.

Terms

No

Yes - only University owned computers No

Microsoft Office 365 
 

Office 365 apps are available to current students and staff on Nexus365 based on your University card status;
can be downloaded to 5 different devices including home and University devices. 

Visual Studio, Project, Visio and other products are not included in Nexus365  For quotes contact Bytes: oxforduni@bytes.co.uk

Nexus365 terms   Yes Yes

NAG

Annual renewal

Serial Libraries, Data Mining Components, NAG Toolbox for MATLAB and FORTRAN Compiler

Unlimited Yes Yes Free (UG)

NVivo

Site licensed
Annual renewal  expires 4/4/2025
(in 4 of 5 yr)

Windows and Mac

Cloud collaboration is an optional extra run locally
NVivo Cloud Collaboration setup with Jisc

Terms Site Licensed -
no charge
Site Licensed -
no charge
Site Licensed - no charge

OpenText Software

Rental until 31/7/21
(no longer renewed)

Now part of MicroFocus
Formerly Exceed & Hummingbird

Exceed and OpenText Secure Shell

CSS Terms

General Terms

ITSS 

   

Origin 

Site licensed
Annual renewal  Expires 31/07/25

Windows - instructions and code

The 'Request code' in the instructions above takes you to Origins site
log in and they email you your product key
 

 

Yes

ITSS 

Yes Yes

Overleaf

Site-wide subscription, expires 01/03/2025
 

Online only. Terms Site Licensed - no charge Site Licensed - no charge Site Licensed - no charge

OxMetrics

Annual Licence

Windows, Mac and Linux.

Software Server

Within Download Yes Yes Yes

Oxygen XML Editor

Site licensed
Annual maintenance  Expires 18/5/24
 

Windows, Mac and Linux.   Site Licensed - no charge Site Licensed - no charge Site Licensed - no charge
Parallels for Mac

Virtual Machine for Mac

Educational subscription available via On The Hub

Dept/Colleges
12-month subscription via Bytes Oracle Punchout or oxforduni@bytes.co.uk

  Contact Bytes
oxforduni@bytes.co.uk
OnTheHub OnTheHub

PCounter

site license
discontinued 2016

 

Windows and Netware servers

Perpetual for existing users

Terms Yes    
Portland C /C++ for Linux Compiler Linux   Free    
Portland Fortran for Linux Compiler Linux   Free    
SAS

No longer Site Licensed

Departmental licence (only in Medical Sciences & Said Business School)

For single licence contact SAS and ask for educational pricing

Terms

Medical Sciences

Said Business School

   

Scientific Word

Renewed until 2/2025

Windows and Mac. v6.x

Sci.Word Webpage instructions

Courtesy of Social Sciences

The owner of this product has retired and released the code for v5.x to GitHub

Terms

Site Licensed -
no charge

ITSS

Site Licensed -
no charge
Site Licensed - no charge

SigmaPlot

Annual renewal 31/08/25

By contribution see ITSS Wiki

On-Line / Local IT
https://systatsoftware.com/video-resources/

 

Yes

ITSS

   

Sophos Central

 

Windows and Mac

Managed by InfoSec

Terms Dept/College Free Free

SpinRite v6.0

Version site licence

Local IT   ITSS    

SPSS and AMOS

Site licensed
Annual renewal  expires 31/11/25
with 30 days grace

Windows and Mac
AMOS Windows only
Terms

Site Licensed -
no charge

Site Licensed - no charge Site licensed - no charge

STATA

The University does not have site licence for STATA.
Some departments maintain a licence for their users please ask your Course Admin or contact your local IT

Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris.

Individuals not covered by local licence may obtain academic pricing 
in the Educational section of the Timberlake website.

       
Symantec Asset & Client Management Suite Enables an accurate picture of assets throughout their lifecycle.   Yes    
Symantec Ghost Solution Suite v3.3 Disk imaging software.   Yes Yes  
VMWare Virtualisation software
 
  Email Bytes for quote oxforduni@bytes.co.uk
and request it is assigned to you
   
VPN Client For Windows, Mac and Unix   Free Free Free

Windows desktop OS (Microsoft)

Site-licence for University devices included in Microsoft 365 subscription (see above)   Yes No No

Zenworks Configuration Manager

Perpetual with Maintenance

Previously Zenworks for Desktops

Desktop OS Management

Terms Yes    

 

Agreement details: Each software item is covered by a different software agreement. The column "Licence Terms" in the table above links additional details on who can use and install the software. Availability is shown for University Units, Staff and Students. Where software is centrally funded it is noted as "free". If a fee is required it is noted as "Yes". A blank cell means that we are unable to supply this software. Please note that "free" refers only to the software licence, media cost will apply where required.

The following software is available on ARC systems:

 

Domain of Application Software
Structural Mechanics Abaqus
Computational Chemistry ABINIT , ADF, CASTEP, Dalton, Gaussian03, Gaussian09, GAMESS, GROMACS, Namd
Computational Genomics Abyss, Beast, Impute, MrBayes, Orca, Velvet
General Computing Mathematica, MATLAB, Python
Performance Compilers Intel, PGI
Performance Libraries MKL, ACML, GSL, PETSc
Medical imaging FSL
Statistics R, Stata
Software Development Tools DDT, Intel Debugger, Valgrind

 

Purchasing Software

The majority of software licences and associated media is distributed through our supplier Bytes. To obtain a quote email oxforduni@bytes.co.uk or use the Oracle Punchout. Colleges may request access to their online portal at the same email. Purchases through Bytes do not require a software card number and IT Services will not have a record of these purchases as we did in the past.

Adobe Cloud products and Kofax for Mac are exceptions and remain on the online shop (requires Oxford Cisco VPN). Users buying software on behalf of a department or college should use a purchase order or credit card.

Some software is obtained by individual departments of the University, not in IT Services. Full details of those agreements can be seen on the Oxford IT Staff wiki (only visible to Oxford IT Staff - please update any omissions this community resource).

Software Licensing Agreements

IT Services manage a variety of software agreements, available to the various parts of the University depending on the type of agreement and funding model. Some additional software agreements have been taken out by individual departments with usage rights for the whole University. The list above shows the general availability for each software product and is intended to show all software generally available throughout the University. Your personal entitlement will depend on the status shown on your University Card which will be verified when software is purchased via the IT Services Shop.

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