Software Available to Students and Research Fellows
Software licenses available for Students and Research Fellows personal machines
How licensing via the University works:
Site-licensed software packages (simple download)
- https://register.it.ox.ac.uk/self/software
- https://register.it.ox.ac.uk/self/software > MS Student Benefit for Student software no longer via onthehub
This includes Sophos Anti-virus, the University VPN and some statistical software
On the hub free or discounted software
Free or Open Source software:
- CutePDF Writer (convert to professional quality PDF files easily from almost any printable document)
- R https://www.r-project.org/ (a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics: open source)
- MikTex (an up-to-date implementation of TeX/LaTeX and related programs for all current Windows variants: open source)
- See our brief introduction to using Shiny and R/R Studio for online visualisations of your data
Other academic software (and its suppliers):
You may be entitled to the following software whilst affiliated with Nuffield College (either free of charge or at educational rates):
Stata licenses always incur a charge.
- Stata/StatTransfer UK supplier or European supplier
Suppliers offering Educational Pricing
- Amazon for Students
- Pugh offer academic pricing
Courses for Software users
Classroom based (mostly)
- Heavily discounted, based at IT Services, Banbury Road: https://help.it.ox.ac.uk/courses/index
Free online courses
- IT Learning Centre (through Molly) https://www.linkedin.com/learning/ (log in with your Oxford SSO)