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Analyse data, discover patterns, identify themes, glean insight and draw meaningful conclusions.
Agreement Start: 1 July 2017
Agreement End: 30 June 2022
Subsequent invoice date: annually three months in advance of the anniversary of licence start date
Site Licence
Institutions will be committed to the licence for a three or five year period.
You can test the latest version of NVivo with a free trial. This is fully functional software that can be used for a 14 day period. Download it from the QSR website.
Higher and Further Education, Research Councils, Associated Sites, Charities in the United Kingdom and Third Level Institutions in Ireland
This Agreement has been negotiated by Chest in response to a need within the Education community.
Licensor: QSR International (UK) Ltd, registered in England and Wales (company number 6906225), Vanguard House, Keckwick Lane, Daresbury, Cheshire, WA4 4AB.
Resellers:
NVivo is software that supports qualitative and mixed methods research. It lets you collect, organise and analyse content from text, images, video, audio, emails, spreadsheets, online surveys, web and social media data in virtually any language. The QSR NVivo Chest Agreement 2017 offers two elements, NVivo and NVivo for Teams (previously known as NVivo Server).
New to NVivo? Visit the NVivo Customer Success Centre - there's something for everyone. In particular, the NVivo 12 Getting Started tutorials were built with those totally new to NVivo in mind. And Research Ready helps all users get their research prepared to prevent issues with importing and coding once in NVivo.
There are two levels of NVivo 12 (Windows) available, Pro and Plus, as well as NVivo 12 Mac.
NVivo 12 Pro supports the widest range of data sources. Ask complex questions of your data with advanced data management, query and visualization tools.
NVivo 12 Plus offers all the functionality of NVivo 12 Pro for Windows, plus, powerful social network and research automation tools for deeper understanding of social themes and sentiments.
Built specifically for Mac users, NVivo 12 Mac is the best native Mac application for qualitative and mixed-methods data analysis allowing you to unlock insights from large volumes of research data.
Visit NVivo Products for more information on NVivo 12 Pro, NVivo 12 Plus and NVivo 12 Mac.
NVivo for Teams is a server-side application that manages NVivo for Windows projects in a centralized database repository—allowing users to work on the same project at the same time. NVivo for Teams, also known as NVivo Server, can help your organization to:
Click here to learn more about NVivo and NVivo Server, click here for system requirements. This page explains what is installed when you install NVivo Server and provides information about unsupported configurations. This page explains user access.
The NVivo Plus FE Classroom Licence is a one or three year licence that entitles your institution to:
Read more about the NVivo Plus FE Classroom Licence here
Your NVivo Chest Agreement now includes two credits per licence year to enable nominated staff members to train to become NVivo Certified Experts through the Licensor’s NVivo Certification program. These two credits per Licence Year are included in the Fee; there is no additional charge for them.
You can test the latest version of NVivo with a free trial. This is fully functional software that can be used for a 14 day period. Download it from the QSR website.
QSR can put organisations in touch with an expert team of trainers and consultants to help users get the most out of their QSR software. A range of services can be provided, from one-on-one consulting to group workshops on site. These services are not included in the Chest agreement and are provided for an additional fee. Contact QSR directly via training@qsrinternational.com for further information and pricing.
Support will be provided by QSR via a single named contact and two named deputies for each product licensed. QSR support can be contacted at:
Online Support page: www.qsrinternational.com/Support
Contact QSR Support regarding a technical issue: http://www.qsrinternational.com/nvivo/contact-us/contact-support
From time to time, QSR will release service packs for its software to address issues or provide minor enhancements. These service packs are available free of charge to all NVivo users, and can be downloaded from the QSR website.
Major Software Releases
An important benefit of the Chest Agreement is that you receive free major software upgrades at the time they are released. So while your NVivo Agreement is current for example, you'll receive every major version of NVivo that is released
NVivo is developed for use on Windows and Mac operating systems.
Licence keys will be sent to the named Admin Contact at the Licensed Site by QSR International only after the completed order form has been submitted, processed and forwarded to QSR or your nominated reseller.
In following years QSR will send licence keys to the named contact within 2 weeks of the anniversary date of the licence. If you have not received your licence keys within this time, please contact Chest Help or your dedicated Account Director at QSR International, Melanie Farrell on 01925 357 961.
If for any reason any of the contacts as detailed on the QSR Chest Agreement Order Form change, please inform Chest Help.
Click on the below image to watch a 90 second video about NVivo Transcription, coming soon to this Agreement
Price Banding for QSR NVivo as determined by Chest and QSR using institution banding by sector, and by combined academic staff and student FTE count as in this table.
HE and Irish sites have been placed in bands can find their band here - Site Banding. Other sites should contact Chest help.
Sector | Band | FTE Count |
HE Institutions in the UK | A | Up to 5,000 |
B | 5,001 - 6,500 | |
C | 6,501 - 10,000 | |
D | 10,001 - 18,000 | |
E | 18,001 or more | |
FE Institutions in UK | F | Up to 2,999 |
G | 3,000 - 6,499 | |
H | 6,500 - 9,999 | |
I | 10,000 or more | |
Institutions in the Republic of Ireland | J | Up to 3,000 |
K | 3,001 - 6,500 | |
L | 6,501 - 10,000 | |
M | 10,001 - 18,000 | |
N | 18,001 or more | |
Not-for-profit organisations | P | Up to 2,999 |
Q | 3,000 - 6,499 | |
R | 6,500 - 9,999 | |
S | 10,000 or more |
The Chest Order, together with the Licence Terms and Conditions, and any exceptions listed below, create a legally binding contract between your institution, organisation or company and the Licensor. Therefore please read the terms and conditions carefully and only submit a Chest Order if its terms and conditions are acceptable to your institution, organisation or company and you have the authority to make the financial commitment shown.
This Site licence is subject to the terms and conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Software. There are some specific rules that apply to the use of Software outside the territory of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland which are detailed at the bottom of this page.
Copying of the Software is allowed in accordance with the terms and conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Software.
Jisc will invoice Licensed Institutions for the initial fee on receipt of a completed order. Sites will then be invoiced annually three months in advance of the anniversary of their licence start date until the end of their chosen Commitment Period.
You are advised that because of the requirement for Jisc to collect monies due before the anniversary date two charges may initially fall into one academic accounting year.
Chest is an Enterprise of Jisc. All Purchase orders must be made out to JISC, One Castlepark, Tower Hill, Bristol, BS2 0JA
Payments are due within thirty days of invoice date; recipients of late payments are entitled to interest in accordance with UK statutory provisions.
At the end of the Period of Agreement, if there is no new Agreement between QSR and Chest or a new Agreement directly between the Licensed Site and QSR, then Licensed Sites are required to remove all copies of QSR Products from their systems - including personal machines which have been loaded with a copy of the software - at the expiry of their Licence (Commitment) Period.
The product(s) may be used by any Authorised User of the Licensee for Educational Purposes which includes the administration and management of the licensee’s educational and research operations. These permissions are described in the terms and conditions for the Standard Chest Licence for Software.
Students | Yes |
Academic Staff | Yes |
Non-Academic Staff | Yes |
Administration and management | Yes |
Staff home use rights | Yes |
Student home use rights | Yes |
Installation on Hosted Server | Yes |
Only site licences are available under this agreement. If you would like to purchase a personal licence for NVivo then we recommend that you refer to the QSR website or contact QSR directly via email at info@qsrinternational.com.
The use of Software outside the territory of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (the Territory) by your Authorised Users temporarily working outside the Territory is allowed provided the Software is only installed on the Authorised Users’ personally-owned computers or on computers provided to them by you. Your Authorised Users are responsible for preventing third-party use whilst they are outside the Territory and for ensuring that Software is not loaded onto any other machine whilst they are outside the Territory. They must also still conform to the terms, conditions and restrictions on use stipulated in this Licence Agreement.
Staff and students at legal entities that are 100% owned by you, including overseas locations (that is, outside the Territory), must be included in the total of your staff and student FTE count when determining your charge band (see the first table displayed at 5 above). Where a legal entity that is 100% owned by you, and is included in the total of your staff and student FTE count when determining your charge band, and is outside the Territory (that is, outside the UK and the Republic of Ireland), then the nation state where that legal entity is located shall be included in the definition of “the Territory”.
The Licensor and you both acknowledge that Authorised Users making use of Software outside the Territory may do so for a period of up to three months. Use of Software outside the Territory for any longer period is not allowed, save but by specific written authorisation from the Supplier*. Such authorisation may be by letter, fax, email or similar method of electronic communication and shall be communicated to an applicant Authorised User by the Licensor direct. Eduserv shall be sent a copy of the relevant authorising communication by the Licensor.
*This applies to Authorised Users travelling overseas for periods of longer than three months. Where the user is permanently based overseas and not part of any of the above categories, they will require a separate licence. Contact help@chest.ac.uk for further information or clarification.
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