The Academic IT Support Center distributes discounted site-licensed software for use on Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) workstations and laptop computers for teaching and academic research purposes. Licenses for Adobe, MathWorks, SAS, and SPSS are available for purchase using our software forms.
EndNote is available for download from the Library—please contact ASCIT with installation or activation issues.
- Adobe Software Request Form
- ESRI ArcGIS Software Request Form
- Lasergene Sofware Request Form
- Microsoft Software Request Form
Statistical Software
IBM SPSS Statistics is licensed for use only by Icahn School of Medicine faculty and staff, and must be installed on Mount Sinai-owned and maintained computers. Personal use or installation of SPSS on privately owned devices is not permitted, as it would violate the terms of our license agreement.
SAS 9.4 products are intended for use in teaching and academic research. SAS is available to faculty and staff at ISMMS for $150 per year, and it must be renewed each year as it expires in July.
R is a great (free/open source) statistical program that is very similar to SAS. This software is available for download from the R project website and is compatible with UNIX, Windows, and Mac operating systems. This manual (PDF download) is an excellent place to begin learning R.
Mathematical Software
MatLab products are intended for use in teaching and academic research. MatLab software is available to faculty, staff, and students at ISMMS for $100 per year and renews annually in December. Refer to MathWorks' Products and Services for a list of available software.
Free Software Available to Students
SAS
SAS is available at no cost to all ISMMS Medical School and Graduate School students. Installation is done in person by scheduling time with ASCIT.
Access
Students can install SAS on their personal Windows laptops by contacting the ASCIT office. This installation cannot be performed remotely — the laptop must be brought to ASCIT. SAS 9.4 requires 10–15 GB of disk space (including documentation) and the installation may take 1–3 hours depending on the machine. Administrative rights may need to be enabled if the laptop is locked down.
System Requirements
- Windows 8 or Windows 10
- Minimum 2 CPU cores
- 2 GB RAM available to SAS
- Swap space: 1.5× physical RAM or 250 GB (whichever is less)
Space Requirements
SAS 9.4 Foundation requires approximately 30 MB of disk space to complete installation.
ESRI ArcGIS (ArcGIS Online + ArcGIS Pro)
ESRI has transitioned its GIS platform to a cloud-based model, with ArcGIS Online now serving as the primary environment for most mapping and analysis work. ArcGIS Pro is available for students who need the desktop application for advanced functionality.
Access
ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro accounts are provided to ISMMS students upon request.
Students can contact the ASCIT office to be set up with access.
What’s Included
ESRI is retiring ArcMap (ArcGIS Desktop) as part of this move to cloud-based services. ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro are the supported platforms.
System Requirements
ArcGIS Pro requires a Windows environment. Mac users may install it using Parallels or another supported virtualization tool.
Microsoft O365 Education
All students at the Icahn School of Medicine are now eligible for a free license to Microsoft Office 365.
This provides access to Onedrive, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and many more applications.
think-cell
think-cell, a powerful charting and layout software that aims to facilitate the creation of charts in Microsoft PowerPoint slides using Microsoft Excel data sheets, is available at no cost to ISMMS faculty, staff, and students.
Create different chart types, including waterfall, Gantt, and Mekko charts in just a few minutes, automate changes and more. think-cell is able to produce scatter plots, bubble charts, line graphs, bar charts, waterfall charts, Mekko charts, Gantt charts and agendas.
Terms: think-cell generously offer their software for free to academic or nonprofit organizations, given that they only use the software for education, public research or their direct nonprofit core operations.
For more information on think-cell and its functionality, please visit the think-cell website. You can download think-cell here.
Personal Software Purchases
ISMMS faculty, staff, and students can purchase selected Microsoft and Adobe products at a discounted price through the JourneyEd Software Website for personal computers. After registering with a valid Icahn School of Medicine email address. Visit the Purchasing Requirements page for details.
Personal and student use of IBM SPSS Statistics violates the licensing terms and is not permitted.
Personal and student copies of SPSS can be purchased through our eStore - OnTheHub.com for use on laptops at a discounted price after registering with an ISMMS email address.