Does your institution still not have a campus license for Mnova, and what can you do about that?
We are celebrating at Mestrelab these days, and not only because our 5th anniversary is approaching (more on that on a later post), but also because we have exceeded a milestone we are very proud of: we now have more than 50 academic institutions with perpetual campus licenses for Mnova NMR!
Amongst them, there are many very prestigious names, including, but not comprehensively, as I am only mentioning some of those who have given permission to be mentioned on our web communications:
- Yale University
- Caltech
- University of Rhode Island
- Princeton University
- The Scripps Research Institute
- ETH Zurich
- University of Ulm
- Munchen TU
- University of Munster
- Broad Institute at Harvard and MIT
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
- Simon Fraser University
University of Colorado at Boulder - University of Barcelona
- Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona
- CSIC
- CNRS
- …
So why have these guys decided to go with a campus license of Mnova? I think there are several very obvious and very compelling reasons. I could expand on that and add more, but I want to keep this short and simple:
- This allows them to give all their faculty, researchers and students access to the same platform to process, visualize and report NMR and LC/GC/MS data, independently of the NMR/MS equipment they are working with (with some exceptions in the case of MS, contact us to find out more)
- They can accommodate Windows (including Windows 7 ), Mac OS and Linux users with one single software application (this is for the NMR and NMRPredict Desktop plugins at present)
- The licensing is extremely flexible and allows users to work at remote locations even when not connected to the institution’s network (read more about licensing here), so this is great for processing and visualizing data whilst at conferences, working from home, writing up a PhD on a mountain retreat,…
- Perpetual campus licenses are excellent value for money with a very low cost per head (you can find out more about pricing at our Store ). Just for example, for a University with 300 users, the PERPETUAL license for the NMR plugin works out at around €42 per user, and that is without considering the fact that new users in future will also be able to use the software, so in the long run the institution is looking at €10/€20 per user.
Of course, if any of you reading this are at an institution with a campus license, it would be great to see a comment about your main reasons to buy it, you know better than me!
Free 120 day Campus Trial
What do you do if your institution does not have a campus license yet? The good news is that you now have a great opportunity to try this out and see how it may work for you. We are giving away 120 day campus license installations for all Mnova plugins, to allow institutions to give ALL their users full access to our software for a limited time period and thus evaluate the level of interest in their community and the usefulness of the software in their working day. If you would like to take advantage of this opportunity, all you have to do is Contact Us mentioning BLOG-CAMPUS LICENSE in the subject. We will give you all the instructions and get your institution set up with its campus license in no time! Just imagine all those happy users processing
And just one more thing before I go for today: if you finally decide to get a campus (or other) license for your institution, do not forget that you can donate, at no cost, a similar license to an institution in less developed countries, within our NMR For All program.
