Academic institutions have a new, affordable way to provide ChemDraw and ChemOffice to everyone from students to post-docs and professors
CambridgeSoft's academic site licenses enable its top-of-the-line desktop software to be loaded on any computer owned by the institution or anyone having an e-mail address at the institution.
The site license price is based on the size of the school and is affordable even for small schools.
Not only does everyone associated with the school obtain the latest version of the software, but if a new version is released during the license period, that new version is immediately available to no extra cost.
The site license requires no administration at all.
Site licenses are assigned on the basis of an internet domain name (eg, yourschool.edu).
Anyone having an e-mail address at the domain can contact CambridgeSoft through a web form to obtain a serial number and registration code that will allow them to install the software.
The software can be installed in computer labs, web servers, and other computers owned or operated by the school, as well as on the home computers of anyone having an e-mail address at the school.
The software packages licensed through this program are ChemDraw for Windows and Macintosh, and ChemOffice for Windows.
Both represent the same full-featured top-of-the-line software preferred by chemists in industry R+D, government laboratories, and leading academic institutions.
The ChemDraw Ultra license includes Chem3D Pro for an introduction to three-dimensional molecular modeling and graphics.
The ChemOffice Ultra license includes Chem3D Ultra to provide advanced computational techniques and interfaces to Mopac, Gaussian, and Gamess electronic structure calculation programs, which must be obtained separately.
ChemOffice Ultra also includes unlimited site licenses to internet-based databases hosted by CambridgeSoft.
The Merck Index, the ChemACX database with its compilation of over 350 chemical supplier catalogues, the Chemindex database for physical properties, and the NCI and AIDS databases - all widely used in life science departments in fields ranging over biology, medicine, toxicology, pharmaceutical, veterinary, and others.
