Library

EndNote is a commercial reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles.

Available: Online

Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.

Available: Online

Anaconda is a free and open-source distribution of the Python and R programming languages for scientific computing, that aims to simplify package management and deployment.

Available: Online

ATLAS.ti is a powerful workbench for the qualitative analysis of large bodies of textual, graphical, audio and video data.

Available: Online

DB Browser for SQLite (DB4S) is a high quality, visual, open source tool to create, design, and edit database files compatible with SQLite.

Available: Online

MATLAB is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment and proprietary programming language developed by MathWorks. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages.

Available: Available for download from Brandeis On the Hub; MakerLab

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Windows, macOS, Android and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.

Available: Online

Qualtrics is a powerful online survey tool that allows users to build surveys, distribute surveys and analyze responses from one online location.

Available: Online

R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.

Available: Online

RStudio is an integrated development environment for R, a programming language for statistical computing and graphics.

Available: Online

SPSS Statistics is a software package used for interactive, or batched, statistical analysis.

Available: Online

Stata is a general-purpose statistical software package.

Available: Online

AppStudio for ArcGIS provides ready-to-use configurable templates to help you create and deploy mobile apps that run on multiple platforms and don't require you to write any code.

Available: Online. Automatically licensed alongside Brandeis ArcGIS Online. Use enterprise login option to sign in.

AppStudio for ArcGIS Developer Edition gives you additional capabilities to build your own native apps that can then be published to app stores.

Available: Online. One hundred licenses per institution. Email Tech Help Desk to activate license. License key is administered through Brandeis ArcGIS Online admin panel. Users must sign into Brandeis ArcGIS Online before license for other Esri apps can be activated.

Dashboards are designed to display multiple visualizations that work together on a single screen. They offer a comprehensive view of your data and provide key insights for at-a-glance decision-making.

Available: Online. Automatically licensed alongside Brandeis ArcGIS Online. Use enterprise login option to sign in.

ArcMap is the main component of Esri's ArcGIS suite of geospatial processing programs, and is used primarily to view, edit, create, and analyze geospatial data. ArcMap allows the user to explore data within a data set, symbolize features accordingly, and create maps.

Available: Goldfarb 1 Info Commons, Farber 101, Goldfarb computer classroom, Digital Scholarship lab

Download software from Brandeis On the Hub. Faculty/staff can request license keys from Tech Help Desk. Faculty need to request student license keys from Esri.

ArcGIS Experience Builder empowers users to quickly transform data into compelling web apps without writing a single line of code.

Available: Online. Automatically licensed alongside Brandeis ArcGIS Online. Use enterprise login option to sign in.

ArcGIS Online is a complete cloud-based GIS mapping software that connects people, locations and data using interactive maps.

Available: Online. Select Enterprise login option to sign into account.

ArcGIS Pro is Esri's powerful, single desktop GIS application.

Available: Goldfarb 1 Info Commons, Farber 101, Goldfarb computer classroom, Digital Scholarship lab

Download software from Brandeis On the Hub. Faculty/staff can request license keys from Tech Help Desk. Faculty need to request student license keys from Esri.

ArcGIS StoryMaps has everything you need to create remarkable stories that give your maps meaning.

Available: Online. Automatically licensed alongside Brandeis ArcGIS Online. Use enterprise login option to sign in.

ArcGIS Urban is a web-based 3D modelling tool designed to improve urban planning and decision-making.

Available: Online. Email Tech Help Desk to activate license. License key is administered through Brandeis ArcGIS Online admin panel. Users must sign into Brandeis ArcGIS Online before license for other Esri apps can be activated.

Gain location intelligence for market planning, site selection, and customer segmentation. Use demographic, lifestyle, and spending data alongside your own. Create and share maps, infographics, and reports.

Available: Online. Email Tech Help Desk to activate license. License key is administered through Brandeis ArcGIS Online admin panel. Users must sign into Brandeis ArcGIS Online before license for other Esri apps can be activated.

Community Analyst is a cloud-based mapping solution that provides simple and easy-to-use GIS capabilities to every user.

Available: Online. Email Tech Help Desk to activate license. License key is administered through Brandeis ArcGIS Online admin panel. Users must sign into Brandeis ArcGIS Online before license for other Esri apps can be activated.

Esri Redistricting is a secure, web-based platform for governments, advocates, and citizens to complete and share regulation-compliant plans that bring clarity and community involvement to the redistricting process.

Available: Online. Automatically licensed alongside Brandeis ArcGIS Online. Use enterprise login option to sign in.

ArcGIS GeoPlanner is an app for informed, evidence– and performance–based planning and design. It provides a design framework and supporting technology for professionals to leverage geographic information, resulting in designs that more closely follow natural systems.

Available: Online. Email Tech Help Desk to activate license. License key is administered through Brandeis ArcGIS Online admin panel. Users must sign into Brandeis ArcGIS Online before license for other Esri apps can be activated.

ArcGIS Insights is a data analytics workbench that offers spatial and nonspatial analysis capabilities to explore data and deliver powerful results. Insights is available in three deployment options: ArcGIS Insights in ArcGIS Online. ArcGIS Insights in ArcGIS Enterprise.

Available: Online. Automatically licensed alongside Brandeis ArcGIS Online. Use enterprise login option to sign in.

QGIS is a free and open-source cross-platform desktop geographic information system application that supports viewing, editing, and analysis of geospatial data.

Available: Info Commons, Farber 101, Goldfarb Computer Classroom, Digital Scholarship Lab. Free, open source (Mac, Windows, Linux). Download software from QGIS site.

Adobe Spark is an integrated suite of media creation applications for mobile and web developed by Adobe Systems. It comprises three separate design apps: Spark Page, Spark Post, and Spark Video.

Available: Online

H5P is a free and open-source content collaboration framework based on JavaScript. H5P is an abbreviation for HTML5 Package, and aims to make it easy for everyone to create, share and reuse interactive HTML5 content.

Available: LATTE

Padlet is a free online tool that is best described as an online notice board. Padlet can be used by students and teachers to post notes on a common page. The notes posted by teachers and students can contain links, videos, images and document files.

Available: Online

Perusall is a social annotation tool that integrates with Canvas via LTI assignments. Perusall allows students and their instructors to collaboratively markup PDF documents.

Available: LATTE

VoiceThread transforms media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.

Available: LATTE

Voyant Tools is an open-source, web-based application for performing text analysis. It supports scholarly reading and interpretation of texts or corpus, particularly by scholars in the digital humanities, but also by students and the general public.

Available: Online

LaTeX is a high-quality typesetting system; it includes features designed for the production of technical and scientific documentation.

Available: Online

Blender is somewhat easier to learn than Maya, but offers the same set of features. It also features an integrated physics engine (Bullet) and supports basic game engine scripting using Python.

Available: SIMS

Also free to download.

Maya is a professional 3d modeling and animation program. While it has a steep learning curve, the program has been used in many professional contexts, including game development and film. Maya is also very extendable; it has an internal scripting language that allows you to write your own plugins and use plugins designed by other users.

Available: SIMS

Mudbox is the perfect companion to Maya, offering a robust framework for 3d sculpting and painting.

Available: SIMS

Adobe Animate (formerly Adobe Flash) is a multimedia authoring and 2-D computer animation program. It can be used to design vector graphics and animation.

Available: SIMS

Also available for download from Brandeis On the Hub. Entire Adobe suite is $20 per month for students, free for faculty/staff.

If you want to create advanced 3D graphics but need a helping hand to create them quickly and easily, then this is the tool for you. It offers easy integration with Adobe After Effects.

Available: SIMS

Photoshop is our recommended all-purpose tool for image editing. You can use it for most any graphics project, whether it be designing a poster, touching up old photos, creating web graphics, or doing professional painting via a tablet.

Available: SIMS

Also available for download from Brandeis On the Hub. Entire Adobe suite is $20 per month for students, free for faculty/staff.

Lightroom is a useful tool for adjusting exposure and applying filters to your raw camera footage—without having to learn Photoshop first. You can also work directly with your raw camera files; no import or conversion is necessary.

Available: SIMS

Also available for download from Brandeis On the Hub. Entire Adobe suite is $20 per month for students, free for faculty/staff.

When you need vector-based design tools, Illustrator is the program to use. The program is very similar to Photoshop, making it easy to learn. Its vector format allows you to scale any illustrations you make with perfect clarity, making Illustrator ideal for logo design.

Available: SIMS

Also available for download from Brandeis On the Hub. Entire Adobe suite is $20 per month for students, free for faculty/staff.

Adobe InDesign is the perfect program for poster and newsletter design. It combines many features of Illustrator and Photoshop, allowing you to work with both vector- and raster-based images.

Available: SIMS

Also available for download from Brandeis On the Hub. Entire Adobe suite is $20 per month for students, free for faculty/staff.

Live is one of our sound engineering programs. It includes several instruments, robust MIDI support, and a variety of audio effects that you can apply with one click.

Available: SIMS

Audition is our recommended all-purpose tool for audio editing. It has professional audio filters, advanced multi-track support, and remastering tools, all within an intuitive interface that can communicate with other Adobe programs.

Available: SIMS

Also available for download from Brandeis On the Hub. Entire Adobe suite is $20 per month for students, free for faculty/staff.

This simple-to-use audio editor is perfect for quick-and-easy recording. It also has a limited number of audio filters, supports basic cutting/pasting, and has multi-track support.

Available: SIMS

Also free to download.

We use Finale primarily for notation (i.e. writing and preparing scores). The program also supports MIDI input via our in-lab MIDI keyboards and audio output via Garritan, Native Instruments, and Miroslav Philharmonik, though more advanced audio production should be done in a professional sequencer such as Logic Pro (below).

Available: SIMS

Also available for purchase at $99 (student and faculty rate).

Logic Pro is our recommended music sequencer. It supports audio and MIDI recording, sequencing, and looping. The program also has a "movie" view mode, in which you can create your audio alongside an integrated video player (ideal for film scoring).

Available: SIMS

Also available for purchase at $199 from App Store.

Sibelius is a scorewriter program. Beyond creating, editing and printing music scores, Sibelius can also play the music back using sampled or synthesised sounds.

Available: SIMS

Available for subcription at $10/month (student and faculty rate).

Max is an object-oriented audio creation program, which allows you to create configurable sound "programs" rather than relying on static sound samples. You can also use Max with our in-lab MIDI keyboards, and can engineer your sound patches alongside an integrated video player.

Available: SIMS

This collection of virtual instruments has been recorded with a craftsmanship that has garnered over 100 international awards. You can use this library — featuring strings, brass, winds and orchestral percussion—in any of our sequencers or notation programs.

Available: SIMS

Sound Forge is an alternative to Adobe Audition, with just as many features. It supports audio recording and mastering, and has quick audio-repair tools.

Available: SIMS

Premiere is our recommended all-purpose tool for video editing. It integrates seamlessly with other Adobe products for multimedia projects and can natively edit a variety of file formats.

Available: SIMS

Also available for download from Brandeis On the Hub. Entire Adobe suite is $20 per month for students, free for faculty/staff.

After Effects is the perfect application for video compositing, post-processing and special effects. Traditionally used after all other editing is finished, you can also use it to "live-edit" your clips in Adobe Premiere—before you've even finished your movie.

Available: SIMS

Also available for download from Brandeis On the Hub. Entire Adobe suite is $20 per month for students, free for faculty/staff.

SpeedGrade is a powerful tool for color correction. Used in conjunction with Adobe Premiere, you can "live edit" your color corrections without having to export your movie first.

Available: SIMS

Also available for download from Brandeis On the Hub. Entire Adobe suite is $20 per month for students, free for faculty/staff.

Adobe Media Encoder allows you to convert between a variety of file formats. It supports image, video, and audio conversions, and is much faster than the leading competitor (Compressor).

Available: SIMS

Also available for download from Brandeis On the Hub. Entire Adobe suite is $20 per month for students, free for faculty/staff.

DaVinci is the industry-standard application for color grading. The latest version combines these features with professional online and offline editing, audio post-production, and visual effects.

Available: SIMS

Also free to download.

ScreenFlow is a screencasting and video editing software for the macOS operating system. It can capture the audio and video from the computer, edit the captured video, add highlights or annotation, and output file types such as AIFF, GIF, M4V, MOV, and MP4.

Available: SIMS

HandBrake allows you to rip DVDs onto your computer. It is most useful for ripping specific chapters of movies which can then be imported into Premiere for use as part of a video editing project, or uploaded to our Ensemble Video server for class streaming.

Available: SIMS

Also free to download.

4K Video Downloader allows you to rip video and/or audio from almost any Flash player or plugin on the Internet. Our patrons typically use it to download YouTube videos at high quality, for use in video projects.

Available: SIMS

Also free to download.

Toast Titanium is our all-purpose media converter and CD/DVD burner. Though Adobe Encore and Media Encoder each offer more options, Toast is easier to use for general-purpose conversion and DVD authoring.

Available: SIMS

Anaconda is a free and open-source distribution of the Python and R programming languages for scientific computing (data science, machine learning applications, large-scale data processing, predictive analytics, etc.), that aims to simplify package management and deployment.

Available: MakerLab

Industry leading 3D printing software from Simplify3D with model setup, slicing, print simulations, customizable supports, and more.

Available: MakerLab

Cura is an open source slicing application for 3D printers.

Available: MakerLab

Repetier-Host is a 3D printing application developed by Hot-World GmbH & Co. KG.

Available: MakerLab

Slic3r is free software 3D slicing engine for 3D printers. It generates G-code from 3D CAD files.

Available: MakerLab

MakerBot Desktop is a free app for preparing 3D prints and managing your 3D content.

Available: MakerLab

Fusion 360 CAD/CAM software connects your entire product design and development process in a single tool.

Available: MakerLab

Solidworks delivers 3D CAD software that helps designers create authentic design experiences.

Available: MakerLab

SketchUp is a 3D modeling computer program for a wide range of drawing applications such as architectural, interior design, landscape architecture, civil and mechanical engineering, film and video game design.

Available: MakerLab

Tinkercad is a free, online 3D modeling program that runs in a web browser, known for its simplicity and ease of use.

Available: MakerLab

Blender is a free 3D modeling software which is optimized for 3D animation and rendering using polygonal modeling techniques.

Available: MakerLab

OpenSCAD is a free software application for creating solid 3D CAD objects.

Available: MakerLab

MeshMixer is a 3D modeling software to create, analysis and optimize 3D models.

Available: MakerLab

Netfabb is connected software for additive manufacturing, design, and simulation. It converts 3D models to printed parts and helps reduce build errors.

Available: MakerLab

PyMOL is an open source molecular visualization system.

Available: MakerLab

UCSF Chimera is a program for the interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures and related data, including density maps, trajectories, and sequence alignments.

Available: MakerLab

The ChemBio Suite allows users to explore the structure and properties of large chemical and biological models.

Available: MakerLab

Unity allows users to make real-time 3D projects for games, animation, film, automotive, transportation, architecture, engineering, manufacturing  and construction.

Available: MakerLab

Unreal Engine is the world's most open and advanced real-time 3D creation platform for photoreal visuals and immersive experiences.

Available: MakerLab

Skanect allows users to easily capture a full-color 3D model of an object, a person or a room.

Available: MakerLab

Autodesk ReCap allows users to create accurate 3D models with reality capture.

Available: MakerLab

The Arduino Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is a cross-platform application that is written in functions from C and C++. It is used to write and upload programs to Arduino compatible boards, but also, with the help of third-party cores, other vendor development boards.

Available: MakerLab

Available: MakerLab

Kinect is a line of motion sensing input devices produced by Microsoft. We have Kinect for Windows SDK and for Windows Runtime.

Available: MakerLab

Available: MakerLab

Available: MakerLab

Software for professional 3D scanning and data processing.

Available: MakerLab

Substance Designer offers limitless material authoring for 3D.

Available: MakerLab

Mudbox is a proprietary computer-based 3D sculpting and painting tool.

Available: MakerLab

Atom is a free and open-source text and source code editor for macOS, Linux, and Microsoft Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js, and embedded Git Control, developed by GitHub.

Available: MakerLab

Notepad++ is a text and source code editor for use with Microsoft Windows. It supports tabbed editing, which allows working with multiple open files in a single window.

Available: MakerLab

Available: MakerLab

Oculus Rift is a virtual reality system that fully immerses users.

Available: MakerLab

Available: MakerLab

Avatar SDK is an advanced avatar creation toolkit that uses AI to create photorealistic 3D avatars from selfie photos.

Available: MakerLab

Available: MakerLab

Available: MakerLab

Available: MakerLab

Available: MakerLab