Some 600 networked workstations are provided in publicly available workstation rooms across the campus and in halls of residence. Powerpoint, Pagemaker and Publisher are all provided. There is a range of statistical packages. Information sources directly available from all workstations include BIDS, OCLC, OPAC, Census 91, The Times, The Guardian, The Observer, and The Oxford English Dictionary. Access to the computer systems of both the University Library and the National Library of Wales is provided.
All students have full access to the Internet, subject only to the rules of acceptable behaviour.
Netscape and Internet Explorer are available. A number of DEC and Sun computers and Linux systems provide central UNIX facilities including file serving, mail handling, the local web server and distributed laser printing. Support is available for full Java and Ada development systems, Oracle 8, Uniras, Maple, GSharp, etc.