SPSS

Information Technology maintains an enterprise license for SPSS for Windows and a 115-seat license for SPSS for Macintosh that allows departments to get SPSS at greatly reduced prices. Current higher education pricing for SPSS Base, Advanced, and Regression software from SHI is $1812 per installation.

SPSS licenses are valid from August 1 through July 31 of the following year. Licenses need to be renewed annually.

In order to more equitably share the cost of SPSS among all the departments that use the software and to better allow departments to manage SPSS licenses used by their faculty, staff, and student employees, activation codes will no longer be distributed directly to users through the IT website.

Instead, departments will need to place orders for SPSS software needed by their users and manage the activation codes generated for those orders. In order to fulfill the university's obligations to track where the licenses are installed, departments will need to maintain the following information about each SPSS installation:

1. Machine information (name, ID, or IP)
2. Type of machine (KU-owned or personal)
3. Name, Title and Department of person using the license
4. Software licensed (Windows, Macintosh, individual add-on)
5. Activation code used

This information can be tracked in the Excel spreadsheet containing the activation codes that will be sent to departments after ordering.

SPSS for Windows: $20 per installation, including lab machines

SPSS for Macintosh: $102 per installation The 115 licenses of SPSS for Macintosh have already been reserved by those departments that ordered it last year, so no additional licenses are available from IT.*

Orders for add-on modules have been completed for this renewal period. Check with your department for availability.

Students may purchase or lease the SPSS Student Edition – a basic version containing the core SPSS components – or the SPSS Graduate Pack – a more advanced version containing more components – for a reduced student rate from an SPSS-authorized online retailer*.

Faculty using the SPSS/PASW software for teaching purposes may obtain the SPSS Faculty Pack, available exclusively from e-academy.com, containing SPSS for Windows or Macintosh, plus 11 add-on modules. Amos, Sample Power, Data Entry Builder, and Data Entry Station are not included in the faculty pack.

Faculty and Staff using SPSS software for research purchases may purchase or lease the software through SHI or order from an SPSS-authorized online retailer.

KU's SPSS license agreement allows us to make software and activation codes available for SPSS Base, Advanced Models, and Regression Models – version 16.0 and version 17.0 for Windows and versions 16.0 and 17.0 for Macintosh.

KU can no longer get codes to activate SPSS v.15 for Windows or v.13 for Macintosh, so users of that software should make arrangements to move to v.16 or v.17 as soon as possible.

Software already installed:

SPSS activation codes can be purchased by departments using the SPSS order form.

Need installation software:

KU faculty and staff (Lawrence and Edwards campuses): SPSS software is available on the KU SPSS download menu page. SPSS activation codes can be purchased by departments using the SPSS order form.

KU Med faculty and staff: A download site for SPSS version 17 software for Windows is available on the MyKUMC portal. In order to obtain your unique activation code(s) contact: 1) SON employees contact Tom DeCock tdecock@kkumc.edu ; 2) SAH employees contact Jeremy Pennington jpennington@kumc.edu ; 3) KUMC - Wichita employees contact Penni Smith psmith3@kumc.edu 4) everyone else contact the help desk by submitting a ticket to https://scsupport.kumc.edu/ess.do or calling 8-7995. If you need assistance installing or activating SPSS contact the Help Desk.

Student employees (GTAs, GRAs, etc.) should check with their department to see if a copy of SPSS was purchased for them.

Any student may purchase or lease the SPSS Student Edition - a basic version containing the core SPSS components - or the SPSS Graduate Pack - a more advanced version containing more components - for a reduced student rate from an SPSS-authorized online retailer*.

Instructions for installing and activating SPSS are available at http://www2.ku.edu/~it_spss/docs/. Software is available through the KU SPSS download menu. SPSS activation codes can be purchased by departments using the SPSS order form.

Workshops are available through Instructional Services. A list of workshops is available online. Go to the Filter workshop list menu on the right side of the screen, select Data Analysis and Statistics from the –by category– listing, then click the Filter button. For more information, call or email Instructional Services (864-0410 or training@ku.edu).

Individual assistance is also available. To request individual assistance, please call the IT Customer Service Center at 864-8080 or email itcsc@ku.edu.

If you have questions about purchasing or renewing SPSS software, please contact IT Fiscal Services at 864-0494 or email statssoftware@ku.edu.

If you need assistance downloading, installing or using SPSS, please contact your department's technical support staff or call the IT Customer Service Center at 864-8080 or email itcsc@ku.edu.

Information Services' Instructional Services offers instructor-led SPSS workshops for the entire KU Community.