This page contains links to Brown University licensed software and sources for commonly used applications. By selecting the product title, you will be linked to instructions on how to obtain the software. All Brown University licensed software products will require that you authenticate with your Brown username and password prior to permitting access to the software.

Several products are controlled by the KeyServer. You must have KeyAccess installed and be connected to the Brown University campus KeyServer to install and run these products.

Although not controlled by KeyServer, any product title having this "license managed" notation is controlled by a network license manager. You must be connected to the Brown network to use license managed software.

Macintosh Software   (click on column heading to sort)
Product (click item for instructions)	Released	Description	Restrictions	Type
Acrobat Pro 9.5.4	2013.03.12	Create, edit, view, and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff, on campus/VPN	PDF
Acrobat Pro 10.1.6	2013.03.12	Create, edit, view, and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff, on campus/VPN	PDF
Acrobat Reader	see vendor	View, navigate, and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files.  Adobe	Free	PDF
Adobe Creative Suite 6 Design and Web Premium	2013.03.14	Adobe's suite of applications for design and publication. Applications include Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff on campus/VPN	Publication
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Design Premium	2011.11.15	Adobe's suite of applications for design and publication. Applications include Acrobat Pro, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff on campus/VPN	Publication
Brown Secure Wireless	2011.08.02	Secure wireless access client for Apple Mac OS 10.7 (unsupported).  Brown University	All Brown users	Connectivity
ChemBioDraw Ultra	see vendor	Chemical structural drawing application.  CambridgeSoft	All Brown users	Visualization
Contribute CS5	2011.02.07	Adobe's web content manager and web editing application.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff on campus/VPN	Web tool
Dreamweaver	2011.02.07	WYSIWYG web authoring software. Part of Adobe Creative Suite.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff on campus/VPN	Web tool
EndNote X5	2011.10.11	Bibliography software. (Macintosh OS 10.5.8+)  Thomson Reuters	All Brown users, on campus/VPN	Bibliographic
Entourage	2008.02.13	Email client. Part of Microsoft's suite of office productivity applications.  Microsoft	Brown-paid faculty and staff (MSCA)	Office suite MSCA
Excel	2011.02.14	Spreadsheet software. Part of Microsoft's suite of office productivity applications.  Microsoft	Brown-paid faculty and staff (MSCA)	Office suite MSCA
FileMaker Pro	2009.08.05	Database development and management application. (Macintosh OS 10.4.11+)  FileMaker Inc.	All Brown users	Database
FileMaker Pro 10v3 Advanced	2009.08.05	Database development and management application with tools for advanced development and customization. (Macintosh OS 10.4.11+)  FileMaker Inc.	All Brown users	Database
Firefox	see vendor	Web browser.  Mozilla Foundation	Free	Web browser
Fireworks	2011.02.07	Fireworks is a graphic image development tool that is part of Adobe Creative Suite.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff, on campus/VPN, educational use only	Graphics
Flash	2011.02.07	Flash is a multimedia development tool. Part of Adobe Creative Suite.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff, on campus/VPN	Web tool
Flash player	see vendor	Browser plugin for playing flash content.  Adobe	Free	Media player
Fugu	see vendor	Secure file transfer using SSH (Secure SHell).  University of Michigan	Free	SSH
Identity Finder	see vendor	Detects and secures sensitive data on your computer.  Identity Finder, LLC	Brown faculty and staff	Security
Illustrator	2011.02.07	For creation of vector graphics. Part of Adobe Creative Suite.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff, on campus/VPN	Graphics
InDesign	2011.02.07	Page layout and publication software. Part of Adobe Creative Suite.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff, on campus/VPN	Publication
Insight Client	see vendor	Used to view collections of digital images.  Luna Imaging, Inc.	Free	Media viewer
iTunes	see vendor	Music management and player.  Apple	Free	Media player
Kaleidagraph 4.1.3	2012.07.10	Data analysis, graphing and plotting software. (For Macintosh OS 10.5.8+)  Synergy Software	All Brown users, on campus/VPN	Visualization
KeyAccess 7.0.1.3	2013.03.12	For accessing software managed by KeyServer. (Macintosh OS 10.4.11+)  Sassafras Software	All Brown users, on campus/VPN	Software Access
Logger Pro 3.7	2009.09.15	Data collection tool for science and math education.  Vernier	All Brown users	Computational
Maple 16	2012.06.27	Mathematical problem solving software.  Maplesoft	All Brown users, on campus	Computational
Mathematica 8	2012.03.14	Symbolic algebra and numerical computation software. (Macintosh OS 10.5.8+ Intel only)  Wolfram Research, Inc.	Faculty, Staff, clusters, home use	Computational
MatLab	2010.11.09	Mathematical computation, analysis, visualization, and algorithm development.  The MathWorks	All Brown users, on campus/VPN, home use	Computational
NAG ASLI Software Suite	2011.02.08	NAG math programming libraries.  NAG	All Brown users, on campus only	Programming
Office 2011	2012.05.15	Microsoft's suite of office productivity applications that includes Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word.  Microsoft	Brown-paid faculty and staff (MSCA)	Office suite MSCA
OpenOffice	see vendor	Sun Microsystem's suite of open source office productivity applications.  Sun Microsystems	Free	Office suite
Opera	see vendor	Opera Web browser.  Opera Software	Free	Web browser
Photoshop	2011.02.07	Image editing software. Part of Adobe Creative Suite.  Adobe	Brown faculty and staff on campus/VPN	Graphics
PowerPoint	2011.02.14	Presentation software. Part of Microsoft's suite of office productivity applications.  Microsoft	Brown-paid faculty and staff (MSCA)	Office suite MSCA
QuickTime player	see vendor	Multimedia player.  Apple	Free	Media player
RealPlayer	see vendor	Multimedia player.  Real	Free	Media player
Remote Desktop Connection Client	see vendor	Remote desktop client.  Microsoft	Free	Connectivity
Safari web browser	see vendor	Safari web browser.  Apple	Free	Web browser
Shockwave player	see vendor	Browser plugin for playing shockwave content.  Adobe	Free	Media player
Sibelius 7.0	2013.02.18	Music notation and composition software.  Sibelius	All Brown users, on campus/VPN	Music
Sophos Anti-Virus for Mac Home Edition	2011.11.23	AntiVirus client for Mac OS 10.4 and later.  Sophos	Personally-owned computers	AntiVirus
Sophos Anti-Virus 8.0.8 Enterprise Edition	2012.11.20	AntiVirus client for Mac OS 10.4 and later.  Sophos	Brown faculty and staff on Brown-owned computers	AntiVirus
SPSS 21	2013.05.22	Data and statistical analysis.  SPSS	Faculty, Staff, clusters, on campus only	Computational
Stata SE 12.0	2012.07.10	Data analysis, plotting and 3-D visualization. (Macintosh OS 10.5.8+)  Stata	All Brown users, on campus/VPN, Educational use only	Computational
Stuffit Expander	see vendor	Expands and decodes compressed files.  Aladdin Systems	Free	Decompression
Tecplot 2013	2013.05.22	Data analysis, plotting and 3-D visualization.  Tecplot, Inc.	All Brown users	Visualization
Tecplot 2012	2012.05.30	Data analysis, plotting and 3-D visualization.  Tecplot, Inc.	All Brown users	Visualization
tn3270 X	2006.07.24	3270 terminal emulation software.  Brown University	All Brown users	Connectivity
Virtual Private Network (VPN) Client	2011.08.17	Permits Brown University off-campus and wireless users secure access to Brown network services.  F5	All Brown users	Connectivity
Word	2011.02.14	Word processing software. Part of Microsoft's suite of office productivity applications.  Microsoft	Brown-paid faculty and staff (MSCA)	Office suite MSCA

User guide

Clicking on a tab containing computing platform (Macintosh, Windows, UNIX) will load the software selections for the clicked platform. Clicking on a column heading will sort the table based on the clicked column.

Table Headings

• Product - the name of the product. Clicking on a product name within the table will bring you to a page providing instructions on how to obtain and install the product.
• Released - this is the date the product was released or last updated by CIS.
• Description - brief description of the product. The name of the product's author/vendor follows the description in small print.
• Restrictions - a summary of user and usage restrictions on the product.
  Products that are restricted to "on campus/VPN" require you to be connected either on campus or through Brown's VPN.
  Items labeled (EES) are restricted to Brown University paid Faculty and Staff.
• Type - a best fit categorization of the function of the product.