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Academic Use of Profiler Plus & WorldView

Both Profiler Plus and WorldView are available at no charge for use in unfunded academic research and funded thesis work conducted as part of a degree program at an accredited college or university under the following License:

Software License Agreement


This is a legal agreement between unnamed user(s) (USER) who choose to download software from this web site and Social Science Automation, Inc (hereafter referred to as “SSA”) based in Ohio, with offices in New York State. Any software or coding schemes available from this web site (hereafter collectively referred to as the "SOFTWARE"), are licensed by SSA to USERS for use only on the terms set forth herein and those displayed by the SOFTWARE upon execution. INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE INDICATES THAT USER ACCEPTS THESE TERMS. IF USER DOES NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS ALL INSTALLERS AND THE EXECUTABLES MUST BE DELETED FROM USER COMPUTERS AND THE INSTALLATION MEDIA DESTROYED OR RETURNED TO SSA.GRANT OF LICENSE.
SSA grants to USER a renewable one-year license for (A) educational use of the SOFTWARE by students of USER on USER's personal computers or on computers provided for USER's use by an accredited academic institution and (B) use of the SOFTWARE for instructional purposes by USER on computers provided for USER use by USER including unfunded research projects conducted by mixed student and faculty research teams.

RESTRICTIONS.

USER may not:
  • Rent, lease, or transfer the SOFTWARE.
  • Reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, unencrypt, or create derivative works from the SOFTWARE.
  • Use the SOFTWARE for funded research with the sole exception of funded dissertations or theses.
For funded research at an educational institution or for commercial use, please contact us.


Profiler Plus on-line!

We now offer non-commercial and unfunded academic users FREE text analysis services at profilerplus.org. Over time, our full range of codings schemes will be made available. Visit profilerplus.org to register for an account.