Applications used to produce documents, spreadsheets, diagrams, bibliographies, or to accomplish clerical work and applications that are either a component of the operating system or helps to extend the operating system in some way including applications to visualize operating system environments. As well, applications focus on the direct transfer of files between two computers.
LaTeX (/ˈleɪtɛk/ lay-tek or /ˈlɑːtɛk/ lah-tek) is a document preparation system and document markup language. LaTeX uses the TeX typesetting program for formatting its output, and is itself written in the TeX macro language. LaTeX is not the name of a particular editing program, but refers to the encoding or tagging conventions that are used in LaTeX documents.
For software to edit LaTeX, check out TexMaker.
Availability: Free Download
Comparable: Zotero, EndNote
Mendeley is a free reference manager and social network that helps users organize their research, collaborate with others, and discover new research. Search and sort references, documents and notes in one place. Users can read, annotate and add sticky notes to PDFs.
Mendeley generates citations and bibliographies in the desired style and is compatible with Microsoft Word, LibreOffice and BibTeX. Reading lists, references or full text articles can be shared either publicly or privately. Groups can be created to work on research assignments, share feedback, and write papers. Published research can be showcased with colleagues, peers, and classmates.
The program combines Mendeley Desktop, a PDF and reference management application with Mendeley Web, an online social network for researchers. Users can store all of their research in one place and access across devices. Mendeley requires the user to store all basic citation data on its servers and storing copies of documents is at the user’s discretion.
Mendeley is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux and provides 2GB of free online storage to automatically back up and synchronize the library across desktop, web and mobile.
Microsoft Office is an office suite of computer applications, servers, and services. There are Microsoft Offices available for students and home use, small business use, and mid-size business use.
Microsoft Office 2013 for Windows includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, OneNote, Access and Publisher.
Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, OneNote, Microsoft Remote Desktop, and the Microsoft Communicator. **NOTE: Microsoft does not produce Publisher and Access equivalents for Mac.** Access to these packages may be possible through the Citrix virtualization service. Speak to your department consultant to find out more.
Microsoft Office 365 introduces cloud storage (via OneDrive, formerly known as SkyDrive) and document sharing and synchronization
The Microsoft Office Suite is installed by default on all UNCC computers running Windows or MacOS. To download the suite for home or privately owned computers, check the UNCC software page.