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ArcGIS - fully integrated suite of enterprise GIS software. The ArcGIS platform allows GIS applications to be deployed on desktops, servers, mobile devices, on the web and in the cloud. Developer and scripting tools allow users to customise the platform to deliver specific teaching or research needs. No restrictions on home use. And new for 2020 - unlimited licences.
This agreement has now been superseded by the Esri 2023 Agreement.
Site and Departmental Licences
Institutions are committed until 31 July 2023.
For a trial copy of the software, please contact Highered@esriuk.com
Higher and Further Education and Research Councils in the United Kingdom, and to Universities and Colleges of Further Education in the Republic of Ireland.
Chest and Esri UK have had a Chest Agreement in place since 1992, with this Agreement taking us through 30 years. Read more about it here:
This new Chest Agreement runs from 1 August 2020 until 31 July 2023.
Owner: Esri Inc.
Supplier: Esri UK
Higher Education institutions in the UK and Ireland can purchase ArcGIS software through the Esri Chest Agreement. The Agreement offers two different options for individual institutions to choose from:
Please see the following document for full details of licence allocations by licence type:
In particular
For complete product descriptions, please visit the Esri UK website.
The pricing is worked out as follows:
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Jisc Band |
Esri Band |
Cost ex VAT |
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1 / 2 |
A - Large |
£9460 |
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3 / 4 / 5a / 5b |
B – Medium |
£6050 |
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6 / 7 / 8 / 9 /10 |
C - Small |
£2750 |
A department licence costs £1375 plus VAT. All prices also have the Chest fee to be added. Please see the Product and Pricing tab for full details
*https://subscriptionsmanager.jisc.ac.uk/about/jisc-banding
What Licence should I use?
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ArcGIS Pro |
ArcMap |
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Open Access Lab |
Concurrent Use Licences (EFL codes) – these are managed on a flex licence manager and will allow users to access ArcGIS Pro or ArcMap instantly. These codes will last for the duration of the agreement |
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Lecturer's Work Computer |
Single Use Codes (SU Codes) These will last for the full 3 years of the chest agreement and should only be deployed on university owned devices. Once verified, enable offline use for the duration of the chest agreement. |
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Lecturer's home laptop |
ArcGIS Identity – licence ArcGIS Pro through ArcGIS Online and enable offline use to allow users off grid access |
EVA codes – last 1 year after activation and will enable 1 year of offline use |
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Researchers |
ArcGIS Identity – licence ArcGIS Pro through ArcGIS Online and enable offline use to allow users off grid access |
EVA codes – last 1 year after activation and will enable 1 year of offline use |
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Students |
ArcGIS Identity – licence ArcGIS Pro through ArcGIS Online and enable offline use to allow users off grid access |
EVA codes – last 1 year after activation and will enable 1 year of offline use |
Previously, Crime Analyst and Productivity Suite were products that, whilst free, needed ordering separately to the main Agreement.
Productivity Suite is now gone, replaced by UK Data loader. Crime Analyst is similarly due to be retired and not being offered, the functionality is in Pro. Crime Analyst will therefore be available on demand but won't be listed as an offered product as it won't be supported through the life of this Agreement.
Please note, Esri UK products are not covered by the Esri Chest Agreement (Higher Education Institution License Agreement). That covers Esri Inc products only. For Esri UK products, the Esri UK licence does apply.
For a trial copy of the software, please contact highered@esriuk.com.
Copying extracts from online documentation for inclusion in internal, non-commercial training material is permitted provided a copyright attribution acknowledgement statement appears in the training material as follows: "Copyright © Esri. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission."
Use of graphical user interfaces and screen captures is for educational and research publications only, and is not permitted for external training or commercial purposes.
For screen capture of Esri Products, include the following attribution statement where the graphical user interfaces and screen captures appear: "Esri software graphical user interfaces are the intellectual property of Esri and are reproduced herein by permission. All rights reserved."
For screen capture of Esri UK Products (CrimeAnalyst, LocatorHub, and ProductivitySuite), include the following attribution statement where the graphical user interfaces and screen captures appear: "Copyright [insert the actual copyright date(s) from the source materials] Esri UK Ltd and its third-party licensors. All rights reserved."
Making copies of training materials for teaching purposes is permitted.
Chest provide non-technical support only – if you want to know your licence dates, or how much a licence costs, or what your last licence was we can help.
For anything more technical, Esri UK will provide second line advice and support to the nominated Admin and Technical Contacts so please be sure to nominate as many Technical Contacts as the order form allows. This is up to four Technical Contacts for the Esri Chest Agreement.
Support calls can be raised by:
Please see the Raising Support Calls StoryMap and the Update your Support Contacts StoryMap for more information, including how to update your Authorised Caller list within My Esri.
To register a change of Technical Contact with Chest, please email help@chest.ac.uk with name, phone number, email address and position of each new contact. If the new contact is replacing an existing contact, please be sure to let us know who to remove.
Support is provided in accordance with the Esri UK Support Policy.
There are also a number of useful online resources:
Esri UK also provide a number of HE-specific resources:
One copy of system releases and/or new versions and/or new supporting documentation will be made available by Esri to Licensed Sites as and when they become commercially available.
Esri Inc Products
Esri will authorise Licensed Institutions to download the Esri Software licensed under this Agreement from their My Esri portal (note that for ArcGIS Desktop, this only covers version 10.x onwards). Updates or new versions of the Esri Software will be made available in the same manner. If requested, Esri UK can provide backup media for an additional fee.
Note that Patches and Service Packs for existing versions can be found at the Esri Support Downloads webpage.
Esri UK Products
Please note, Esri UK products are not covered by the Esri Chest Agreement (Higher Education Institution License Agreement) which covers Esri Inc products only. For Esri UK products, the Esri UK licence applies.
Licences on Personal Devices
Use by staff and students on personal devices is covered under the terms of the Esri Chest Agreement. Identity is the preferred method of delivery (ArcGIS Pro) and ESU codes for home use of ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap) – details are available via the ArcGIS Off-Campus StoryMap.
The one-year EVA codes previously used for ArcGIS Desktop activation are being retired, please see the EVA Codes Retired StoryMap for more information.
Borrowing a Concurrent Licence
It is also possible to license your ArcGIS Desktop users for off-campus use (on both institutionally-owned and personal devices) by setting up licence borrowing from your ArcGIS License Manager.
When managing borrowed licences, it is necessary to set a time limit to ensure the University policies for the security and use of the software are adhered to as they are obliged to do under the terms of the agreement. For example, a Masters student may have a three-month research project to complete before they leave the institution. In this example the student should not be provided with a licence that runs beyond the time they are a registered student.
Without external configuration, an ArcGIS License Manager can only be set to share a licence for one defined period e.g. 12 months, 6 months or 3 months. To enable the legal borrowing of licences, the University may need to run two (or more) separate ArcGIS License Managers on different servers e.g. one for 12 months, one for 6 months and one for 3 months.
After the defined time limit expires the licence will check itself back in whether the machine is connected to the network or not.
Supported Software Versions and Platforms
Details regarding version numbers and supported platforms vary depending on product(s). Full information on products can be accessed from the Esri website.
Click on the images below for helpful information on migrating from ArcGIS Desktop (ArcMap) to ArcGIS Online and ArcGIS Pro, and on ArcGIS Online data compliance:
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Click on the images below to find out more about Esri UK's Lecture with GIS website and Esri's international MOOC Program:
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This year's presentations showcased GIS storytelling, technology demonstrations and customer innovation, with Esri UK experts and customers sharing how GIS is being used to solve some of the world’s most complex challenges, from wrestling with a pandemic to tackling climate change.
Register to explore the video playlist to see each of this year's presentations.
View 'Managing ArcGIS at your Uni in a Disrupted World', along with other webinars related to ArcGIS in education, on Esri UK's Education Webinars website.
Esri's new Site Licence for universities provides unlimited access to ArcGIS for teaching and research. This provides an opportunity to redefine the way that GIS is accessed and taught across the university, from formal courses to incidental or reactive learning. Find out how to empower students and researchers across your university so they can access the world's leading GIS platform. Visit the webpages here.
Click on the image to learn how Cambridge Estate Management’s Space Data team created an innovative digital Estate Map with ArcGIS Online, converting data from multiple file formats, and introduced new processes to provide accurate estate information to staff and stakeholders.
Please find here a copy of the document sent out to all UK institutions in March 2020. This document covers licence quantities for academic and administrative use, plus banding and pricing, and has a large number of FAQs.
There is an equivalent document for Irish Universities here.
Where can I find the list of FAQs now?
https://www.esriuk.com/en-gb/industries/education/higher-education Scroll down the page and you will come to an FAQ section that is being updated as and when new questions arise
Is Story Maps included?
Story Maps is part of ArcGIS Online, so yes.
The Chest Order, together with the Licence Terms and Conditions, and any exceptions listed below, create a legally binding contract between your institution, organisation or company and the Licensor. Therefore please read the terms and conditions carefully and only submit a Chest Order if its terms and conditions are acceptable to your institution, organisation or company and you have the authority to make the financial commitment shown.
Institutions licensing Esri software via the Chest Agreement are bound by all the Terms and Conditions contained in Esri Higher Education Institution License Agreement.
By completing the Esri Online Order Form you confirm your acceptance that the Terms and Conditions will be adhered to. Please ensure that you read the Licence Terms and Conditions before ordering.
Commitment Period
Once ordered, institutions are committed until 31 July 2023.
Institutions may submit Orders at any time but will be bound by the Terms and Conditions, including payments, of any Licence until 31 July 2023.
For initial purchases, payment will be due on receipt of a correctly completed Order and receipt of Purchase Order (if required) to cover the period from the Licence start date to the following 31 July.
Pro-rata pricing is available on a monthly basis.
For each subsequent year until 31 July 2023, invoices will be raised on 1 May (three months in advance of the anniversary of the Agreement Start Date). The final payment will be invoiced on 1 May 2022 to cover the period 1 August 2022 to 31 July 2023.
Chest is an Enterprise of Jisc. All Purchase orders must be made out to Jisc, 4 Portwall Lane, Bristol, BS1 6NB to cover all charges plus VAT.
All terms contained in a PO are expressly rejected and do not form part of the Licence or vary the Licence terms in any way.
Payments are due within thirty days of invoice date; recipients of late payments are entitled to interest in accordance with UK statutory provisions.
At the end of the period of Agreement (31 July 2023), unless a new Agreement is negotiated between Jisc Services Limited and Esri UK, sites will be required to delete the software from their systems and return media to Esri UK.
Administration and Management of the Business of the Institution
Use of the software is allowed for administration and management of the business of the Institution per the terms and conditions of the agreement. See Esri Education Products and Deployment Schedule for more information.
Commercial Use Prohibited
The commercial exploitation (including exploitation by commercial training) of the software is prohibited. Licenses for Commercial use can be purchased directly from Esri UK.
Paid for Research Prohibited
Under the Chest Agreement, sites are not allowed to use the software for paid-for research.
For example, paid-for research includes when a student/researcher is sponsored by a company to complete research and the company then owns the research for use in their commercial business. This is not allowed. If, however, a student/researcher is sponsored by a company to complete their PhD/project but the student owns the outcome then this is allowed.
Overseas Use
Overseas Use is permitted
Virtualisation Use
Virtualisation Use is permitted - see section 3.1.d of the Esri Higher Education Institution License Agreement. Esri UK must be notified via e-mail of the type of technology/product you intend to use with respect to virtualisation.
Sites must inform teaching and research staff and registered students allowed to download the Esri software on their personal computers that such use is subject to the Licence Terms and Conditions.
Single Use licensing should not be used for personal computers at Version 10.x. The license manager for ArcGIS version 10.x has the capability to lend / borrow licenses and set a borrowed license expiry date.
If required ArcGIS Desktop 10.x Student Edition One Year Timeout Educational Evaluations are available to site license Options A and B through the Chest Agreement. The person requesting these must be one of the two named Technical Chest contacts. Students can install these on personal computers. Sites can request up to 20 licences at any one time.
Option A or Option B licence holders should order by completing the One Year Student Licence Form and send it to orders@esriuk.com.
Esri has a specific page focusing on GDPR which references their privacy pages.
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