Our department offers the following computing facilities to our students:

• A Computer Lab of 6 Windows PCs and one laser printer, located in Purvis Hall, room 15. PCs and printer are linked through an Active Directory network, with access to Internet. Regulations and Guidelines concerning usage of these facilities are posted in the Lab;
  
  
• Wireless Internet access to laptops having a proper Wireless card. See Useful Links below for details;
  
  
• First-year PhD students are provided with an office space and a computer in Purvis Hall for one year. Printing is done on the laser printer in the Lab. It is the student responsibility to run all the necessary Updates on the computer, to maintain the materiel in good condition, and to clean at the end of the year (including the local hard drive) for the next student;
  
  
• Students are being charged for their print jobs, via their DAS account. The department will reimburse to the first-year PhD and MSc students some of their printing costs. See our Student Printing Reimbursement Policy, which is posted in the Lab.
  
  

Consultation Service

• Students can consult Marielle Olivier, our Computer Systems Consultant, for help with their computer-related questions and/or problems. She is located in Purvis Hall, room 17. She can also be reached by email, or by phone at 514-398-6257;
  
• Students can also contact the ICS Service Desk.
  

CISTI Source [Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information]

• This is an electronic document delivery service offered by McGill Libraries. See more info in the Library Resources section. Contact Marielle Olivier to obtain our CISTI Source departmental User name and Password.
  

iCARE Computer Clinics

• Go to the iCare Clinic Calendar to find out how to register to the Computing Safety and Connectivity@McGill workshops.
  

Free Antivirus software

• This software is available to all full-time McGill students
• Please visit the IT Knowledge Base article on Antivirus software for Students, Faculty and Staff for more information.

myMcGill Web Portal - http://mymcgill.mcgill.ca

• This is the central access point from which you can get your email and online course materials, link to your student records, view important news and announcements from McGill, and more. See Useful Links below for more details.
  

McGill Email

• McGill students receive a McGill Email Address usually in the form of firstname.lastname@mail.mcgill.ca, with a 200 MB mailbox. Any official McGill email sent to students will be addressed to that McGill Email Address. See Useful Links below for more details.
  

File Storage Space

• McGill students receive 100 Mb of storage space on the McGill's network, for personal use including personal web pages, on the "P:\" network drive. Save your files from any on campus computer and access them from home or wireless. Read the IT Knowledge Base article on How to access your McGill personal network file storage from on or off campus (WebDAV).
  

Useful Links to IT-Related Services at McGill

Visit the IT Service Catalog for more information on:

• Email;
  
• Minerva;
  
• myCourses (WebCT);
  
• Virtual Private Network (VPN);
  
• Wireless;
  
• Dial-up Access Service(DAS);
  
• myMcGill Web portal - http://mymcgill.mcgill.ca;
  
• Using Reggie - Account Management System;
  
• File storage;
  
• Welcome new students.
  

Visit the McGill Site Licenses for Software website for more information on free software for McGill full-time students (Symantec AntiVirus, EndNote, Reference Manager, ProCite)and on software licence agreements at McGill. From there, click on www.mcgill.ca/software to order your copy.

Visit the McGill Computer Store web page if you are planning on purchasing a laptop or other computing equipment.