Resources

Internal

• Weekly "nyuguest" wireless password (Internal access only)
• NYU Wireless Configuration
• NYU VPN
• Computing Facilities (Internal access only)
  • Printers
  • Printing FAQs
  • Network Connection FAQs
• General Administration (Internal access only)
• Traveling for Business - the Fly America Act and NYU's Policy
• Tips and Tricks

Faculty Resources

• New Course Proposal Instructions

Quick Links for Researchers

• NYU library databases
• NYU free e-book databases
• e-Print archive at Los Alamos National Laboratory (now hosted by Cornell University)
• INSPIRE, the High Energy Physics information system.
• The Astrophysics Data System (ADS)
• Mathematical Physics Preprint Archive (mp_arc)
• Google Scholar
  • Link NYU Libraries to Google Scholar Search

You should be able to access these databases even off campus from library.nyu.edu. If you are having trouble, follow instructions here for vpn setting.

Free Software

• Open Office - Open Office should open documents produced by most of the word processing softwares.
• Libre Office
• MacTeX - Latex for Mac
• TeX Live - Latex for Windows
• GhostScript and GhostView
• Xemacs editor
• gimp - GNU Image Manipulation Program
• Inkscape - Vector graphics software
• Blender - Open source 3D graphics
• Cygwin - Linux environment and X server on Windows
• List of various softwares on wikipedia
  • integrated development environments
  • text editors
  • video player
  • audio player
• For other NYU provided softwares such as MATLAB, please visit NYU IT Software or click on "Ask NYU IT" on the top right corner after logging on to home.nyu.edu. IT also has SSH and SFTP softwares.
• For antivirus software, please contact the department system administrators.
• For Physics Department computation softwares, please visit Physics Department Softwares page.

Information

• Directions to Meyer Hall of Physics
• NYU Campus map
• New York City
• New York University
• Online Manuals
• Scientific Computing