Software for Students

Here, you’ll find software products available for JKU students either free of charge or in return for a fee.

(warning) Please note that use is only permitted within the scope of your personal education.

How and where can you get the software?

Due to the current situation, there will be no customer service at the Service Desk until further notice and therefore no software sales. For Mathematica and SPSS, there are alternative purchase options, see below.

  • Software that is not free and for which you have to apply for a licence can be purchased at the information management service desk during the following sales hours:

    Monday - Thursday

    09:00 - 10:00

    14:00 - 15:00

    Friday09:00 - 10:00


    For your safety and the health and safety of others, please adhere to the following COVID-19 safety regulations. Maintain your distance of 2 meters. Wear a face mask. Enter one at a time. Thank you for your cooperation!

    Information Management service portal

    Please submit your inquiries via our IT service portal:  help.jku.at/im-servicedesk

    Contact Information Service Desk

    servicedesk@jku.at
    +43 732 2468 1111

    Lageplan Service Desk

    Service hours

    Monday - Thursday
    08:30 - 12:00 and 13:00 - 15:00

    Friday
    08:30 - 12:00

    The licence agreement must be signed in person. If you obtain the licence on behalf of other JKU students, a proxy will be required. Proxy forms can be found at www.help.gv.at. Under ‘reason’, put ‘purchase of Mathematica (and/or) SPSS and signing of licence agreement’.

    The only available payment method is Maestro (bank card)! No cash payments!

  • You can also operate various software products without a licence key.
  1. These are available free of charge for your personal education.
  2. You can  software.im.jku.at download these via our software download list.
  3. Registration requires your JKU account .


Citavi – literature management

This literature management tool is available to students free of charge under the campus licence.

EndNote – literature management

The JKU does not offer licenses for Endnote. The basic version of Endnote can be used free of charge: https://endnote.com/product-details/basic/

If this version does not suit your needs you can buy a student license directly from the company: https://buy.endnote.com/1603/purl-buy

JetBrains (IntelliJ) – software development environments

Price: free

As of the end of 2014, students receive education licences with their student email address at JetBrains

You are granted access to programmes such as IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, ReSharper Ultimate, PhpStorm and other IDEs.

LabVIEW – test, measure, control

LabVIEW is a graphic programming software programme for testing, measuring and controlling from National Instruments (NI).

Price: free

Platform: Windows

How to access

  1. Request access by emailing servicedesk@jku.at.
  2. Download from software download server:  software.im.jku.at.

Mathematica – analyses and calculations (including WolframAlpha)

Price : € 25,- / year

You can obtain Mathematica as follows:

  1. Send an e-mail with the subject "Mathematica" and your matriculation number to mathematica-studadmin@jku.at.
  2. You will receive an e-mail with information on how to transfer the amount and with the license agreement.
  3. Transfer the amount and read the license agreement carefully.
  4. Send the order confirmation of the payment and the signed license agreement in response to the e-mail received from mathematica-studadmin@jku.at.
  5. JKU will check the documents and confirm the correct payment by e-mail.
  6. Follow the installation instructions on https://help.jku.at/x/qLxdAQ. You can use Mathematica for one year from the date of purchase.

You can get more information from Wolfram Research (https://www.wolfram.com) and via the following links:

Installation guide

MATLAB

The JKU MATLAB license allows the use of MathWorks products for research, teaching, and studying on university-owned and private devices.

Students can register via the JKU MATLAB portal using their JKU email address (@students.jku.at). To do so, click on the registration link on the portal page, follow the instructions to link your account to the JKU license, and enter the download area.

For installation questions, please get in touch with MathWorks-Support directly.

For more information, see the MATLAB for Students page.

MAXQDA

Students can make discounted purchases directly from the MAXQDA Web Shop: https://www.maxqda.com/student-license

Microsoft 365 Apps for Students

Former name: Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus

Price: free (financed by JKU)

Offer

Microsoft Apps (Word, Excel, ...) for installation and use on up to 5 PCs or Macs, 5 tablets and 5 smartphones. Scope of services, terms of use and permissions are defined by Microsoft and can be changed, restricted, extended or completely withdrawn at any time.

Notes and restrictions

The license expires upon the earliest of one of the following three events:

  • You are no longer a student at JKU
  • You cancel your Microsoft account
  • JKU’s volume license contract with Microsoft ends

Support is provided exclusively through Microsoft's support channels.

Attention Cloud: "OneDrive for Business" is a storage in the Microsoft Cloud. It is not a cloud solution of JKU. Therefore, you may not use this service to store JKU business documents. You are free to use OneDrive for Business for private purposes only.

Backing up data at the end of your studies or before your user authorization expires: If you end your studies and are exmatriculated, or if your user authorization ends for any other reason, you will no longer be able to use Microsoft services with the account you received from JKU. Without exception, there is no longer any access to the data in the Microsoft cloud, and recovery is impossible. Therefore, save any data that you still need in a safe place in good time before your authorization expires.

Obtaining he software

See access to Microsoft 365 Apps for Students.

Microsoft Windows 10 Education (Multilanguage)

Price: free

Purchase

You can obtain the product free of charge via the software store www.jku.at/softwareshop. To do so, log in with your JKU account and select the product "Microsoft Windows 10 Education (Multilanguage)". Add the product to your shopping cart and accept the disclaimer. You will receive an overview with the download link or the installation key as well as an email from webshop.no-reply@softwareone.com with further information.

Support

Support is not provided via IM but by the SoftwareONE Academic Team via acadsupport.global@softwareone.com .

Origin Pro – data analysis and presentation

Origin is only available for Windows. (It can be used with virtualisation software on a Mac.)

Price: free
Download from our software server:  software.im.jku.at

SPSS - Statistics

You can also find general information about SPSS at IBM Statistics.

Purchase

  1. Call up the ACOmarket shop via https://acomarket.shop (you will be forwarded to the Academic Shop)
  2. Login (select "Johannes Kepler University Linz" as login provider)
  3. You will be forwarded to the JKU registration
  4. Log in with your JKU Account
  5. After successful registration you will be forwarded to the shop and can purchase SPSS.

Valid payment options in the ACOmarket shop: Visa, Mastercard, EPS immediate payment

Support for students is available via shop@acomarket.ac.at

Installation

Alternative sources of supply

 

 


Software via ÖH Linz

Microsoft licences for technicians
Students of the TN faculty and IT students at the SoWi can access many Microsoft programmes free of charge via Azure Dev Tools.
You can find out more in the ÖH-Linz service section for IT students at https://www.oeh.jku.at/microsoft-lizenzen-azure-dev-tools.

Software access through the Institute for Polymeric Materials and Testing

SOLIDWORKS 2018-19 Student Edition with the following packages

  • SOLIDWORKS Premium
  • SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
  • SOLIDWORKS Simulation Premium
  • Electronics Module for SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation 
  • HVAC Module for SOLIDWORKS Flow Simulation
  • SOLIDWORKS MBD Standard
  • SOLIDWORKS Sustainability
  • SOLIDWORKS Plastics Premium
  • SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional
  • eDrawings Professional
  • SOLIDWORKS Electrical Professional

Price: free

SOLIDWORKS can be downloaded via the JKU software download list software.im.jku.at. Registration requires your JKU account.

The Institute of Polymeric Materials and Testing provides students of plastic technology and the TNF a free campus version of SOLIDWORKS with 200 licences via operation with JKU’s licence server.
Furthermore, a home-use version for operation without the licence server is available with preference given to plastic technology students.
To receive home-use activation codes, please contact Mr DI Harald Kicker (harald.kicker@jku.at) using the subject 'SOLIDWORKS Home Use' and provide your name, subject, matriculation number and a brief description of the reason behind your needs.