Matlab 5.2

I have a Matlab 5.2 licence. Is it still valid for research and publications?

Answer 1

[drummer]

A peer-reviewer journal will probably ask why you're using such an obsolete version of MATLAB.

It is really necessary to use such an old MATLAB version?

Well, I don't think peers will judge the quality of your work by the version of your MATLAB as long as it is reasonable.

For example, to keep reproducibility you might replicate the code with newer data, perhaps using your codes and function in such version make sense.

So give it a try. Submit the paper and check for the journal's output.

Cheers

[James Dire]

Journal have never asked what software is used to create graphs for research publications. How would anyone know what version of Matlab was used? My question was whether my license was still valid for using for research. Matlab for Home cannot be used for research.

Answer 2

[Steven Lord]

Are you asking if you can run MATLAB 5.2 using that license? Possibly if you can find an old machine. The System Requirements for MATLAB 5.2 are no longer on the website; the oldest one on the system requirements page is for MATLAB 5.3. For Windows, the supported operating systems for MATLAB 5.3 were Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT 4.0.

Are you asking if you can access the newest releases using your MATLAB 5.2 license? I recommend contacting Customer Service using the telephone icon in the upper-right corner of this page and asking the Service staff.

If you have some other question regarding that license, I recommend contacting the Customer Service staff.

Answer 3

[Walter Roberson]

"Standard" licenses (also known as Commercial, or Professional licenses), and Education licenses, can both potentially be used for research and publications.

Student licenses, and Home licenses cannot be used for publications.

Most individual "Standard" licenses do not have their rights expire, and likewise most individual Education licenses do not have their rights expire. What expires for those licenses is Software Maintance Services (SMS), which is rights to access new versions, and rights to access certain documentation, and rights to open support cases.

"Network" licenses - it is not uncommon for network license rights to expire.

But basically if you have a Standard or Education license that permits you to run MATLAB (doesn't complain about not having a valid license) then you can use it for publication purposes.