Certainly. The Annual Site Subscription plan offers separate pricing levels for small, medium and large schools. In either case the annual fee for a site subscription is comparable to the cost of only a few standalone copies. We have found that most schools are already buying that many licenses on a yearly basis. So with the Annual Site Subscription, not only do you get the software for the people who were planning on buying it anyway-and probably for less money than you would have paid otherwise-but you also get copies for everyone else as well. And not only do you get the most recent version of the software, but if a new version is released during the period of your license, you may download and install that new version at no additional charge.

Site Subscriptions are assigned on the basis of an Internet domain name, such as @your_school.edu. Anyone who has a valid email address from your school may go to a form on CambridgeSoft's website to obtain a serial number and registration code that will allow them to download and install the software on their computer. Anyone with a valid email address at your school would be covered by your site subscription and would be able to install the software. Since there is no limit to the number of people who can install the software under the site subscription, there is nothing more to administer.

Many of our databases are available as online editions and can be accessed through the web. This includes The Merck Index, ChemACX, ChemINDEX and others. If the software packages you license includes web available databases, you get access to these too.

Anyone with a valid email address at your school can use the software including Professors, students, staff, and laboratory technicians. You probably have already assigned email addresses to everyone based on your own criteria for who should get an address at your school. Anyone with such an address would qualify for this site subscription. Some schools offer email addresses to alumni, such as grad@alumni.your_school.edu. Those are the only people who would be excluded from the site subscription.

Absolutely. The person doing the installation must be covered by the site subscription and they can install the software on however many computers they want. That includes computers in a computer lab, or any other computers they have responsibility over.

Absolutely. A professor can install the software on a home computer. The software can be installed on home computers and school computers, or on many school computers. The same holds true for students. As long as they are covered by the site subscription at all, which means that they have a valid email address at your school, they can install the software on as many computers as they want.

We expect that most schools will renew their license rather than let it expire. If your license expires, you will only lose the ability to create new data and to edit existing data. You will still be able to view any data you had created while under the site subscription.

The Annual Site Subscription allows you to use the latest version of the software, regardless of when that version was released. Each user will have to download and install the update, of course, but they are certainly allowed to do so under the terms of the license.

Many thousands of users get CambridgeSoft products via academic site subscriptions and commercial site subscriptions. Click on our site subscription gallery for a list of all schools and companies using site subscriptions.