General
Adobe Creative Cloud
An Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) account is available to all Penn State students as well as faculty and staff members, at no additional cost! Through the full suite of Adobe CC products, you have access to a host of creative tools for digital imaging, design, web, and video, as well as online services including 20GB of storage.
G Suite
A cloud-based collection of applications, to help enhance teaching, learning, and research.
OneShot
An easy to use, quick to learn, and surprisingly powerful video editor.
SketchUp
A great 3D modeling program with a quick learning curve and a lot of documentation. Sign up for a free account here.
TAPoR
Agateway to the tools used in sophisticated text analysis and retrieval. In 2018 TAPoR absorbed the DiRT project (Digital Research Tools) and now includes tools that work on non-textual data and tools that provide services used by digital humanists.
Weebly
A free website builder makes it easy to create a website, blog, or online store.
WordPress
Sites at Penn State gives students, faculty, and staff the ability to build websites, blogs, & portfolios free and easily.
Exhibitions
Omeka Classic
A web publishing platform for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits.
Omeka S
A next-generation web publishing platform for institutions interested in connecting digital cultural heritage collections with other resources online.
Mapping
ArcGIS
Penn State has an Enterprise License Agreement with Esri. Multiple Colleges and Units across campus support this ELA, which allows faculty, staff, and students can obtain Esri software products to install on their own machines at no cost. Library guides are available here.
GIS@Penn State– a volunteer run group that is made up of GIS professionals from across the University Park Campus.
Mapbox
An open source mapping platform for custom designed maps.
Neatline
Allows scholars, students, and curators to tell stories with maps and timelines.
Onodo
Create relationship maps quickly and easily.
StoryMap JS
A free tool to help you tell stories on the web that highlight the locations of a series of events.
Organization
ARIES
An interactive image manipulation system that enables the exploration and organization of fine digital art.
Digital Mappa
An open-source DH platform for open-access workspaces, projects, collaborations, and scholarly publications.
Mendeley
A free reference manager and an academic social network. Manage your research, showcase your work, connect and collaborate. Library guides are available here.
OpenRefine
A powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.
Tropy
An open-source software that allows you to organize and describe photographs of research material.
Zotero
A free, easy-to-use Firefox extension or stand alone system, that helps you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. Library guides are available here.
Text Analysis
AntConc
A text analysis tool is installed on the VRC computers. A good introduction is available here.
Constellate
An exploratory platform for text analysis that allows users to ingest data the from major collections from JSTOR, Portico, Chronicling America, DocSouth, and RevealDigital. Read a helpful LibGuide.
Voyant Tools
A web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.
Visualization
Gephi
The leading visualization and exploration software for all kinds of graphs and networks.
Palladio
Visualize complex historical data with ease.
RAWGraphs
The missing link between spreadsheets and data visualization.
Tableau Public
Create interactive graphs, stunning maps, and live dashboards in minutes.
Tableau for students
Free one-year Tableau licenses to students at accredited academic institutions through our Tableau for Students program. Receive access to our entire eLearning suite once verified.