Using Our Tools

Check out our library guides below to help you get started on our specialized software.

What sort of tool do you need?

Text, Images, and Multimedia

• Photoshop
• Introduction to OCR and Searchable PDFs (including ABBYY FineReader)

Quantitative and Qualitative Data Analysis

• STATA
• ATLAS.ti
• SAS
• SAS Text Miner
• SPSS
• NVivo
• Qualitative Data Analysis Software

Usability Studies

• Morae
• Silverback

GIS/Spatial Data Analysis

• Story Maps
• Creating 3D Maps in ArcGlobe – a Grand Canyon Fly Through
• Creating 3D Visualizations in ArcMap Using Hillshade

Hardware

• Scholarly Commons Scanners

Other Online Tools

• GeoLytics – accessible with Illinois NetID
• R
• GitHub
• ORCID
• Plot Lexical Trends Using HathiTrust+Bookworm