Solution State NMR
The solution-state NMR facilities are located in A74 Faraday Building, accessible via A73 and are used for both research and teaching.
Instructions on how to access your data are on OneDrive.
Note that to manipulate your data in TopSpin, you MUST copy your NMR data from LUNA into somewhere where you have write permissions - usually on your own computer. For convenience, you can then add this folder to the file browser pane on the left (right click and select "Add New Data Dir...").
If you have a lot of processed 2D data, you will find that your personal filestore (aka "H drive") will fill up pretty quickly. You can either request more space from ISS (the best way as ISS backs it up for you) or store it locally but this will not be backed up automatically! If you have admin rights on your Windows PC this can be anywhere at all, but if you don't, C:\Users\Public Documents\ does not need permanent admin rights. Only do this if you have a robust backup strategy in place!
ACD/NMR Processor Academic Edition is a freeware package for processing your NMR data and can be installed directly on any Windows machine using AppsAnywhere. You can also install it the conventional way on personal machines using the installer on the filestore at \\luna.lancs.ac.uk\FST\CH\NMR\Software\ACD_Freeware, but you will need admin rights (a local admin account is enough).
Compared to TopSpin it is less powerful, but it can be easier to use (at least initially) because the learning curve is shallower.
In contrast with TopSpin, you can also open your NMR data directly from the network server without the need to make local copies of your data. You will still need to save your processed data locally though.
Another free alternative for (mostly) Windows is SpinWorks. Although the appearance is somewhat dated, it contains some very powerful spin simulation tools. You will also need admin rights to install this on University machines.
Mnova is a popular NMR processing package available for Windows, MacOS and Linux, but this is not free. A small number of individuals in the Department use it, but these are currently paid for separately. Should this number increase it may become feasible to organise this centrally. We also have a single license for NMR Predict - contact Geoff if this is something you're interested in.
An extensive list of free NMR processing scripts (Python, R, Julia etc.) is maintained by Bryan Hanson. If you want something with a graphical interface, then NMRFx Analyst may be worth checking out.
There are now web-based systems available so you can process your NMR data within a web browser. NMRium is the most fully-featured and is said to have a feature list comparable with MNova, while Splotch Labs is earlier in the development stages.