Quick reminder, if someone asks you "what software is available on campus?" or "I've heard that I can get my own copy of (whatever software) at a discount" - have a look at the campus ITS software page: http://its.uncg.edu/software/
And now for news from ITS. Some UNCG patrons get software called SPSS for their own computers. The SPSS software that these people have installed on their own computers will stop working on Sept 30th. ITS usually can provide a code that will enable users to renew this sw but they don't have them right now.
If anyone contacts the library b/c their SPSS has stopped working, feel free to have them call (336) 256-TECH for help.
There are alternatives, as listed in the ITS email below.
- Software sales have moved from the ITS Client Services office in Forney to our new online software store - http://its.uncg.edu/software
store - run by Kivuto (formerly known as e-Academy). All of the
applications previously sold through our office are now available
online.
- We
have replaced the old SPSS lease system with a new one that uses
Qualtrics. You will find links to that on the SPSS home page - http://its.uncg.edu/Software/
Available/SPSS/ . If you have bookmarked the old lease page, please change it to the new one.
- As you may know, licenses expire annually for SPSS, on August 31st, regardless of when the software purchased or installed. That is determined by SPSS. Delays on the vendor side with our renewal have resulted in a delay in the generation of new activation codes, a situation which we hope will remedied very soon.
- Until we can access the new codes, there are alternatives to purchasing a new license which will expire in a few weeks, notably remote access via VCL, which we have now been licensed to provide.
- Older versions of SPSS are not compatible with either Windows 8 or the new versions of OSX, sucjh as Mavericks.
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