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Alternative study spaces available from 19 October
19 October 2026
You can now access specialist software in additional classrooms in the evenings.
Following the change in library opening hours this year, we have listened to your feedback and are making additional PC classrooms available so you can access specialist software between 6-9pm on weekdays.
Classrooms RM711, RM509a and RM509b will be available from Monday, 19 October between 6-9pm:
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Software | RM711 | RM509a | RM509b |
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7Zip | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Adobe Acrobat DC | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Adobe AfterEffects | Yes | No | No |
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Adobe Audition | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Adobe Illustrator | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Adobe InDesign | Yes | No | No |
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Adobe Lightroom Classic | Yes | No | No |
|
Adobe Media Encoder | Yes | No | No |
|
Adobe Photoshop | Yes | No | No |
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Adobe Premier Pro | Yes | No | No |
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Adobe Rush | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Ansys | Yes | Yes | Yes |
|
Archicad | Yes | No | No |
|
Autodesk 3DS Max | Yes | No | No |
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Autodesk Autocad | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Autodesk Navisworks Manage | Yes | No | No |
|
Autodesk Revit | Yes | No | No |
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Automation Studio | Yes | No | No |
|
Bureau Veritas ComposeIT |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Bureau Veritas Mars | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bureau Veritas StarBoat | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cisco Packet Tracer | Yes | No | No |
| Git | Yes | No | No |
| GitHub Desktop | Yes | No | No |
| Google Chrome | Yes | No | No |
| Granta Edupack | Yes | Yes | Yes |
|
IBM SPSS Statistics | Yes | Yes | Yes |
|
Loadmaster X5 | Yes | No | No |
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MathType | Yes | No | No |
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Matlab | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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MaxSurf | Yes | Yes | Yes |
|
MD Solids | Yes | No | No |
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Microsoft Office | Yes | Yes | Yes |
|
Microsoft Power Bi | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Project | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| NodeJS | Yes | No | No |
| Notepad++ | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Nvivo | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| PuTTY | Yes | No | No |
| PyCharm | Yes | No | No |
| Rhino | Yes | No | No |
| Sage 50 Account | No | No | No |
| SketchUp Pro | Yes | No |
No |
We will continue to review the availability of software in these classrooms and add further software where required.
If you are using these classrooms in the evening to study, you can also access the shared breakout space with a microwave in CCG01 at the entrance of the IoT building.
We will continue to monitor and review our study space provision. If you have questions or feedback about the changes, please get in touch with the library team by emailing library.suggestions@solent.ac.uk.
Please note that classroom doors will be locked, and everyone will have to use a valid campus card to enter the rooms.
If you cannot enter it is likely your card needs an update on an update point that can be found around campus, the closest one to these spaces is either in the concourse near the RM lifts and the Research Hub, or by RMG18 in the corridor adjacent to the entrance to the CC Building marked with signed ‘Salto Update Point’. If your campus card still does not work or update, please visit the Student Hub.
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