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Registration now open for Summer NVivo workshops!

Check out the Qualitative Data Analysis workshops in the Research Commons this summer.

NVivo Office Hours for Summer 2025

Drop by our weekly online help sessions. Wednesdays, 11:30am-12:30pm, April 30 to August 13, 2025. 

Updating your NVivo license

Access the current license key via the self-serve download page. 

What is NVivo?

NVivo is a software package (available for Mac and PC) that supports qualitative and mixed methods research through the organization and analysis of unstructured data. NVivo can help you:

• Classify, sort, and arrange information
• Examine relationships and identify trends in your data
• Visualize data
• Organize and code multiple data sources in one central project file
• Test theories
• Use search and query functions to cross-examine information in many different ways

The observations you make through NVivo can help build a body of evidence to support a case or project.

NVivo supports data formats such as audio files, videos, digital photos, Word, PDF, spreadsheets, rich text, plain text, web sites and social media data (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube). You can import data from applications like Microsoft Excel,Microsoft Word, IBM SPSS Statistics, EndNote, Microsoft OneNote, SurveyMonkey and Evernote. 

Software availability

SFU Library manages a site license for NVivo for the use of SFU students, faculty, staff, and SFU-based members of research teams. SFU does not have access to the NVivo Transcription module or Collaboration Cloud. 

Computer labs and Library laptops

NVivo is available on all laptops available for loan from SFU Library. Learn more about checking out a laptop from a Library location.

At SFU Burnaby, NVivo for Windows is installed on computers in W.A.C. Bennett Library, including Computer Lab 2105 and Instructional Lab & Computers Room 4009. NVivo is also installed on the Macs in the Research Commons at Burnaby. 

At SFU Vancouver, NVivo is installed in Harbour Centre lab 1350, on computers in Belzberg Library, as well as on computers in the Research Commons at Vancouver.

At SFU Surrey, NVivo is installed on computers in Fraser Library. 

NVivo is available in various departmental labs on the 3 campuses—check with your LAN Administrator to verify or request installation.

Downloading NVivo

Please see NVivo: Getting Started for information on downloading NVivo software, for Windows or for Mac, to a personal desktop or laptop computer. 

Help and questions

Email the NVivo Team at nvivo-rc@sfu.ca, attend our NVivo drop-in office hours, or request a consultation.