CrystalMaker is an advanced chemical & materials modelling program, featuring energy minimization, crystal-engineering - combined with full crystallographic model building and visualization.
CrystalMaker provides a streamlined workflow that majors on productivity: just drag-and-drop your data files into the program for instant display in spectacular photo-realistic color. Manipulate structures in real time, with the mouse. Multiple View "bookmarks" and undo levels encourage exploration and discovery - ideal for teaching and research.
If a user experiences a barrier due to a disability, please contact the supervisor if an employee, or Disability Services if a student.
CrystalDiffract 6 is an all-new, stand-alone program, designed to make the world of X-ray and neutron powder diffraction intuitive, interactive - and fun!
CrystalDiffract 6 reads from crystal files - including CIF files - to simulate X-ray or neutron powder diffraction patterns. Real-time parameter controls let you experiment with diffraction and sample settings, with instant feedback. Combine these with instant mixture creation - and the ability to load observed data in the same window - and you have a powerful workbench application for researchers, teachers and students.
If a user experiences a barrier due to a disability, please contact the supervisor if an employee, or Disability Services if a student.
SingleCrystal is an elegant program designed to make the world of diffraction, reciprocal lattices and stereographic projections intuitive, interactive and fun!
SingleCrystal can simulate X-ray, neutron and electron diffraction patterns from single crystals, as well as being able to display reciprocal lattice sections and stereographic projections.
If a user experiences a barrier due to a disability, please contact the supervisor if an employee, or Disability Services if a student.
Dell offers special pricing for LSU faculty, staff and students at their online store. As a Louisiana State University student, faculty or staff member, you may purchase Dell devices and accessories through Dell's Online Webstore at reduced academic pricing.
The exclusive discounts & pricing for members of LSU can be found at www.dell.com/lsu.
The hosted digital repository provides a place to archive and provide access to digital information produced by the university. The institutional repository is available to the LSU community for long-term storage and access of any materials produced by LSU affiliates.
To access ScienceDirect, visit www.sciencedirect.com and click Sign In at the top right. Choose "Sign In with Institution" and continue with your myLSU login.
TurningPoint is the ultimate audience response system. With TurningPoint, your PowerPoint presentations become powerful data collection and assessments that collect real-time responses from participants..
For additional information about this software, see this GROK article: TurningPoint: LSU Overview
To download, please go to the TurningPoint Download page on the provider's website.
Note: There has been a recent acquisition of TurningPoint by Echo360; documentation will be updated when it is available from the new provider.
EndNote gives you the tools you need for searching, organizing and sharing your research. It allows you to easily create bibliographies while writing papers, and includes features like finding full text for your references and automatically updating records. It also has syncing capabilities which let you access all of your references, attachments, and groups from anywhere.
For additional information, please refer to: EndNote: LSU Overview.
Licensing:
LSU faculty, staff and students eligible.
Faculty and staff members must be employed according to criteria defined by the LSU Department of Human Resource Management.
If an employee experiences a barrier due to a disability, please contact your supervisor. If a student experiences a barrier due to a disability, please contact Disability Services.
Esri Business Analyst Desktop software combines GIS analysis and visualization capabilities with an extensive data package so you can gain a better understanding and timely information about your market, your customers, and your competition. Organizations use Business Analyst Desktop to improve decisions about consolidations or expansions, determine the effect of changes in consumer behavior on existing business models, and to explore opportunities driven by economic factors and changes in market place.
LSU ITS maintains a list of free and open source software that are not supported or purchased, however are free to use by license which can assist in many use cases as needed. Some products on this list are not free, but are pre-approved for purchase if needed by a department.
These software products include free, open source, educational, or pre-approved software such as:
All software listed are not supported by LSU ITS and as such, support is limited to what the software company is able to accomodate, or end-user forums for the product.
Please see the full list here: LSU A&M: Software Product Offerings
Gaussian is a software package used for calculating molecular electronic structure and properties. Gaussian is used by chemists, chemical engineers, biochemists and physicists for research in established and emerging areas of chemical interest. This package includes a wide range of ab initio and semi-empirical methods for energy, gradient, frequency and property calculations.
Licensing: Gaussian is available under a site license for LSU.
GaussView 06 is the latest in the Gaussian series of electronic structure programs. GaussView 06 is used by chemists, chemical engineers, biochemists, physicists and others for research in established and emerging areas of chemical interest.
GaussView 06 makes using Gaussian simple and straightforward by sketching in molecules using its advanced 3D Structure Builder, or loading in molecules from standard files. Also, it sets up and submits Gaussian jobs right from the interface, and monitors their progress as they run. It examines calculation results graphically via state-of-the-art visualization features: displays molecular orbitals and other surfaces, view spectra, animates normal modes, geometry optimizations and reaction paths.
Licensing: Gaussian is available under a site license for LSU.
GlobalProtect VPN is a new offering for LSU to access campus resources over a VPN connection.
IBM® Personal Communications is a host communication and terminal emulation package for Microsoft® Windows® that features virtual terminal (VT) Emulation, systems network architecture (SNA) application support, integration and connectivity. Personal Communications is a key component of IBM® Host Access Client Package and IBM® Host Integration Solution.
iThenticate is the leading provider of professional plagiarism detection and prevention technology used worldwide by scholarly publishers and research institutions to ensure the originality of written work before publication. iThenticate helps editors, authors and researchers prevent misconduct by comparing manuscripts against its database of over 45 billion web pages and 130 million content items, including 38 million works from 530 scholarly publisher participants of CrossCheck, a service offered by CrossRef and powered by iThenticate software. iThenticate is developed by Turnitin, the leader in plagiarism and originality checking for educational institutions worldwide.
For additional information, please visit iThenticate: LSU Overview.
What if you could explore your data to see the story behind the numbers? You can. Created by SAS for statistical discovery, every product in the JMP software suite is visual and interactive, comprehensive and extendible. No matter what your field, we have a product that will help you connect with your data - whether you are new to statistical analysis or are a seasoned statistician.
For additional information, please refer to: JMP Statistical Discovery: LSU Overview.
IMPORTANT NOTE REGARDING LICENSING OF JMP:
The license file is included within the JMP files provided here. Be sure to read through our documentation regarding installation and activation of JMP for further instruction.
If you are having issues installing JMP, please reach out to servicedesk@lsu.edu to request assistance. Note that you will need to right click and “Run as administrator” to successfully install.
Download LabVIEW, the only system design software that provides engineers and scientists with the tools they need to create any measurement and control application. NI LabVIEW system design software is at the center of the National Instruments platform. Providing comprehensive tools that you need to build any measurement or control application in dramatically less time, LabVIEW is the ideal development environment for innovation, discovery, and accelerated results. Combine the power of LabVIEW software with modular, reconfigurable hardware to overcome the ever-increasing complexity involved in delivering measurement and control systems on time and under budget.
For additional information, please refer to: LabView: LSU Overview
LSU students are eligible for special reduced pricing at the IBM/Lenovo LSU pricing website here. LSU and Lenovo have established a pricing agreement that provides LSU students with the ability to purchase hardware (laptops, desktops) at a significantly reduced cost.
Student pricing for hardware purchases can be found on the IBM/Lenovo LSU site: www3.lenovo.com/us/en/louisianastate.
LSU Human Resources maintains a list of staff discounts available to LSU employees. These discounts are available until the expiration dates provided on the list.
Please see the list at the following link: LSU Lagniappe page
For questions, comments, or additions, please reach out to LSU HRM.
Wireless Printing is now available. Students, faculty, and staff can print from their laptops via the wireless network to one of our pay-for-print printers located in our public access labs.
Visit print.lsu.edu/uniprint to access printing packages for the Public Access Labs.
Wireless Printing Instructions (via print.lsu.edu)
Wireless Printing Instructions (via downloadable print package)
LSU students have access to free virtually hosted computer lab software from anywhere in the world using VLAB through VMWare Horizon.
For instructions on how to access VLab and for a list of included software, please see this GROK article: Virtual Lab (VLab): LSU Overview.
If you are accessing VLAB off campus, you will also need to download the LSU VPN. To download it, please see this article: VPN / Virtual Private Network: LSU Overview.
If you are having issues logging in or accessing software on VLab, please reach out to servicedesk@lsu.edu for assistance.